On June 14, CTG UAbany will host the Smart Cities Smart Government Research Practice Consortium Symposium, an online event about smart cities and communities. The symposium will include the following three presentations: 1) Decolonizing Digital Government and Smart Cities Benchmarking, 2) Global Assessment of Responsible AI in Cities, and 3) A Public Participation System for Stakeholders’ Living Context Identification and Improvement in Smart Cities. If you are interested in attending, please contact CTG UAlbany Research Director Mila Gascó-Hernández at mgasco@albany.edu  

UAlbany's Center for Technology in Government is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to aid the city of Schenectady monitor the use of city assets.

CTG UAlbany to partner with other researchers at the University at Albany as part of the new Cybersecurity Incident Response Studio (CREST). CREST will be supported by $1.25 million in federal funding secured by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. The funding will be used to purchase advanced technologies, support faculty, and help recruit UAlbany undergraduate and graduate student assistants to support the effort.

UAlbany students Michelle Leon Vasquez, Tyler Jardine and Kelvin Cai are getting a first-hand look at how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve the lives of individuals. They are working side-by-side with the University’s Center for Technology in Government (CTG UAlbany) to assist the city of Schenectady in monitoring the use of city assets. 

UAlbany students Michelle Leon Vasquez, Tyler Jardine and Kelvin Cai are getting a first-hand look at how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve the lives of individuals. They are working side-by-side with the University’s Center for Technology in Government (CTG UAlbany) to assist the city of Schenectady in monitoring the use of city assets. 

CTG UAlbany and Rockefeller College doctoral student Tzuhao Chen and Research Director and Associate Professor Mila Gascó-Hernández were interviewed by Government Technology for a story on their published research on how government agencies are using artificial intelligence and specifically how they are harnessing chatbot technology.  

CTG UAlbany Research Director and Rockefeller College Associate Professor Mila Gascó-Hernández, along with her co-authors, won the Best Paper Award 2022 - Urban Governance. The award was for her paper titled, “The role of organizational capacity to foster digital transformation in local governments: The case of three European smart cities.” The paper was co-authored with Associate Professors Greta Nasi and Maria Cucciniello from the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Alexander M. Hiedemann from the Government, Health and Not for Profit Division, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy. Professor Nasi also is a 2023-2024 CTG UAlbany Visiting Scholar.  

Researchers from CTG UAlbany and University College London (UCL)’s School of Public Policy examine the use of chatbots by governments, and what factors have led to their successful deployment or failure.