Stop Banning AI. Start Owning It.
How Van Buren and St. Joseph Counties are building a sovereign AI architecture for local government. How Van Buren…
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There is no Shapefile: Why AI Vendor Lock-In Is Different This Time
The Lessons of the Digital Parcel Map In the 1980s and 90s, counties across the country took their first…
AI Doesn’t Know Your County Exists. Here’s Why That Matters.
Why Local Governments Must Build Their Own AI Knowledge Infrastructure – What new research reveals, and why it matters…
Cognitive Lock-In: Why OpenAI’s “Frontier” Reveals the Knowledge Layer Local Governments Must Own
When OpenAI announced Frontier this week, most of the commentary has clustered around safety, scale, and the familiar sense…
Bridging Local Government and Academia: DID Partners with Western Michigan University
We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership between the Digital Innovation Collaborative Exchange (DICE) and Western Michigan University (WMU) for the…
Why Local Government AI Is Guessing (And How We Fix It)
When a government staff member uploads a document into ChatGPT, NotebookLM, or the latest AI tool their IT department…
The Scale of AI Sovereignty: Why Small Governments Must Build Together or Rent Alone
This is the final article in a series on AI Sovereignty and the Knowledge Layer. The earlier pieces explored…
The Local Government AI Lock-In You Can’t Migrate Away From
Note: this is part of an ongoing series about a little understood but critical issue for local governments in…
The Sovereign AI Stack: A Local Government Architectural Stance
Building Toward Governable AI, One Drawer at a Time Local governments do not suffer from a shortage of AI…