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Unpacking How Long-Standing Civil Rights Protections Apply to Emerging Technologies like AI at BenCon 2024
A panel of experts discuss the application of civil rights protections to emerging AI technologies, highlighting potential harms, the need for inclusive teams, and the importance of avoiding technology-centric solutions to social problems.
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Emerging Legal and Policy Trends in State and Federal AI Governance at BenCon 2024
BenCon 2024 explored state and federal AI governance, highlighting the rapid increase in AI-related legislation and executive orders. Panelists emphasized the importance of experimentation, learning, and collaboration between government levels, teams, agencies, and external partners.
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Digital Benefits Beacons: Where Policy Meets Practice at BenCon 2024
Michigan's UIA director, Julia Dale, is leading the agency through transition by prioritizing lived experience, hope, grit, and values. Virginia's SNAP Program Manager, Michele Thomas, highlighted the success of Sun Bucks, a summer EBT child nutrition program that fed over 700,000 kids in its first year.
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Digital Benefit Beacons: Where Policy Meets Practice at BenCon 2024
Michigan's UIA director, Julia Dale, is leading the agency through transition by prioritizing lived experience, hope, grit, and values. Virginia's SNAP Program Manager, Michele Thomas, highlighted the success of Sun Bucks, a summer EBT child nutrition program that fed over 700,000 kids in its first year.
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Policy2Code Demo Day Recap
A recap of the twelve teams who presented during the Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge at BenCon 2024.
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Helping Government Agencies Understand and Invest in Their Capacity for Digital Delivery
The Digital Service Network worked closely with stakeholders from the Texas Education Academy (TEA) to develop resources for a structured approach in helping identify and better understand core challenges in government digital delivery.
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Problem Identification & Definition Workshop Miro
This workshop guide offers teams an opportunity to jointly work toward understanding core problems impacting digital delivery in their organization. The guide is structured in two parts: (1) a Miro template and (2) a Facilitation Guide.
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Transformative Research Toolkit
This transformative research toolkit offers guidance on community-led research processes that center lived experiences and drive social change.
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Problem Identification & Definition Workshop Facilitation Guide
This workshop guide offers teams an opportunity to jointly work toward understanding core problems impacting digital delivery in their organization. The guide is structured in two parts: (1) a Miro template and (2) a Facilitation Guide.
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Interview Template Digital Delivery Assessment
This interview template includes questions designed to help teams conduct exploratory, semi-structured interviews with government stakeholders involved in program delivery to gather information that can help them evaluate the status quo of digital delivery in their organization.
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Seeding policy: Viral cash and the diverse trajectories of basic income in the United States
This article examines the concept of "viral cash" and suggests that the future growth of basic income programs will depend on advocacy networks rather than traditional policy diffusion across jurisdictions.
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Loss of Medicaid Coverage During the Renewal Process
This study examines national trends in the use of and spending on oral anticoagulants among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries from 2011 to 2019.