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How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: Open source software, patents, and research provide the codebase, data, and information to anyone who wants to explore it. For governments, this allows better citizen engagement and support without committing substantial funds to upgrading or becoming locked into proprietary systems. What Is Open Source?

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The 6 Best Practices to Prevent Ransomware Infection

Business and Tech

Patch regularly: Attackers thrive on exploiting known vulnerabilities, and therefore businesses must ensure they update their software regularly as these often contain security fixes. software, hardware, cloud). This can help identify vulnerable devices and unpatched software that can lead to ransomware infections.

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Building Intelligent GPT Chatbots with Power Virtual Agents and Co-pilot: Best Practices and Considerations

Acuvate

These chatbots are powered by the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language model, which allows them to understand natural language and generate responses. These chatbots are powered by a pre-trained language model which has been trained on massive amounts of text data.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. Innovations like virtualization and utilizing proxy servers has been a boon for software research, development, and production.

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Boosting Innovation: Harnessing AI for New Product & Service Development

Leapfrogging

Moreover, AI’s role in product development is becoming increasingly important due to the growing complexity of consumer needs and the fast-paced nature of technology. One way AI aids design is through generative design software. It helps organizations to: Anticipate future trends and consumer demands.

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How To Change The Way Local Government Works From The Inside Out

Moves the Needle

Over the past couple years working with cities around the country to increase their community impact by adopting Lean Innovation principles, we have noticed four key learnings about changing the way local government can work. If a city launches a community app to address potholes and graffiti and no one uses it, there are reasons why.

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Iowa Department of Transportation Selects Qmarkets Platform for Cross-Functional Idea Crowdsourcing Initiative

Qmarkets

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. Qmarkets was selected due to strong functionality in this area and experience working with public sector organizations on similar projects. “The