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Technology Can Save Kids’ Lives in Texas

by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 7, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Regulation

The Texas foster care system is infamous for failing its wards. The system is so flawed that in 2015 it was found in violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees the right for people to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm while in government custody. The...

Innovation Champion No More

by Bartlett Cleland | Apr 21, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competition & Free Market, Competitiveness, Publications

Much is always written about “innovation.” How to manage it. How to inspire it. How to benefit from it. How to create an environment where it blooms. So much lip service is paid to innovation that unfortunately many people tune it out. Certainly, ignoring the value of...

Building In Accountability for Algorithmic Bias

by Anna Parsons | Apr 17, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Artificial Intelligence, Competition & Free Market, Ecosystem, IT & Data Innovation, Publications, Regulation

Co-Authored with Anne Hobson “Algorithms’ are only as good as the data that gets packed into them,” said Democratic Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren. “And if a lot of discriminatory data gets packed in, if that’s how the world works, and the algorithm is doing...