Jerry Happel

Jerry Happel

When the Map Talks Back

Author’s note: In When a Map Isn’t Just a Map, we showed that GIS already functions as the cognitive infrastructure of local government. In The GIS Awakening, we reframed the GIS professional as a knowledge architect stewarding that institutional intelligence.…

Bringing AI to Mainstreet

A National Call to Action The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) recently released a major report—Bringing AI to Main Street: Maximizing Artificial Intelligence’s Positive Impact on Municipal Economies—that shifts the national conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) from Silicon Valley…

When AI Moves to the Country

Over the weekend, I sat down with a cup of iced coffee, my trusty dog, and the AI Guide for Government from the U.S. General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence. (Yes, I know how to have a good time.) It’s…