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The Arlington RAPID TRANSIT Corporation is a Privately Owned technology company created to deploy ATS technology across the #Vision34Corridor. Our Objective? reconnect the Metroplex with its heart. and every major Commercial, Industrial, Educational, cultural , and entertainment destination in DFW. The FUTURE.... ALL begins in Arlington!!

Reposting post & quote from Patrick Godard, CEO at Brightline Trains Florida, sharing the news and highlighting the benefits of reintroducing the multi-ride pass between West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale emphazising the important role Brightline has in the economic development of the region.

Exciting news coming out of the government capacity world: NYC just launched their Public Interest Technology Crew, which will develop digital solutions to government processes - making the city's public services easier to access and more efficient. I've worked with countries around the world on initiatives just like this - and this new team reflects some of the practices I saw in countries like Ukraine, which are radically re-defining how government delivers services by: 🔎 centering people and their needs 💪 building in-house expertise 💼 rethinking how government works Federation of American Scientists & Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation recently ran a series of Digital Service Retros - drawing on the expertise of hundreds of digital government practitioners - and we have some recommendations. Most importantly: go big. This is an opportunity to reimagine service delivery and change what people expect from government. Read the full letter (including insights from our retros!) from Merici Vinton Loren DeJonge Schulman Lynn Overmann Kirsten Wyatt and I ⤵️

Government capacity is having a pretty good week, and nobody's website had to crash to get our attention for once! New York City just launched its Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew, and a few of us at Federation of American Scientists teamed up with Georgetown's Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation to write the new team an open letter: part congratulations, part "here's everything we learned from the people who tried this before you," part please keep evolving the model! That advice comes straight out of our Digital Retros project, where we talked to more than 100 people who built digital service teams across city, state, and federal government. The headline finding was a little uncomfortable: for all the talent that's cycled through this work over a decade-plus, the field never really agreed on what "good" even looks like. We got very good at building teams; we didn't always build services or strategy. NYC has a real shot at doing it the other way around. And it's not just New York! Colorado is rebuilding its state tech office around actually delivering the services people use every day (SNAP, unemployment, license renewals and truly embedding their work with state agencies, not just serving as the counterculture. Virginia just put real money in its budget for a state digital service team of its own. All three are doing awesome stuff: hire actual builders (engineers, designers, product folks), sit them where the services live, create measures that people feel and see, embed work with the work of government, not as a rescue squad--all instead of paying vendors to not talk to each other. That bet is the whole premise of our government capacity work. When government works well, you barely notice; it's just easy. A lot of places seem ready to make that happen right now! Can't wait to see (and maybe help out) on what comes next. Merici Vinton Laura Sigelmann Kirsten Wyatt Lynn Overmann Sarah Tuneberg Luke Farrell

Tecum and Butler's Armstrong Group are building a platform company in the Pittsburgh area by combining businesses in this sector. Now it has a name. Here's what's coming. https://lnkd.in/g2Z-WY-W

The new Public Interest Technology Crew will tackle 12-week sprints to make it more pleasant to access city services onli http://f-st.co/CvAB5qV

We've all heard a lot about 'No 10 North' in the last week, but it's still pretty unclear what this means. If you're curious about what 'No 10 North' is, what it could look like, and how it would deliver change, you're in luck! Today, Re:State has published an excellent report by Dr Simon Kaye answering these exact questions, spotlighted by BBC News and Politico already. 👉Check out the report: https://lnkd.in/dkNtSjef

🔊 NEW PAPER: How to build No 10 North No 10 North could become either a symbolic Whitehall outpost with a Manchester postcode, or the foundation of a genuinely different relationship between the centre and the rest of the country. Our new paper argues that its success should be measured by how much power, funding and responsibility move out of Whitehall. The paper proposes a blueprint for the purpose, structure, and operationalisation of No 10 North, including: • a stronger prime-ministerial operation focused on strategy, policy and delivery • four specialist, decentralisation-focused units covering devolution, growth, public-service innovation and the democratisation of quangos • a direct route for strategic authorities to shape decisions and escalate Whitehall barriers Built badly, No 10 North could add another layer to central government. Built well, it could become the machinery through which Whitehall finally learns to let go. Read the report by Simon Kaye: https://lnkd.in/e85PBU4Q

More than 100 people who've built digital services inside government shared what they learned with us in our Digital Service Retros. Today, we shared those lessons with NYC Office of the Mayor and New York City Office of Technology & Innovation. NYC just launched its Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew — one of the most promising bets I've seen a city make on government that actually works.  Done right, it will make public services simpler, more accessible, and worthy of trust for millions of people, and shows every other city what's possible. I'm even more excited that the effort is spearheaded by friends and former USDS colleagues Luke Farrell & Maya Israni who know how to build and deliver.  Merici Vinton, Laura Sigelmann, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Kirsten Wyatt, and I wrote an open letter with five principles to help this team deliver lasting impact — not just a strong launch day: * Set a standard that changes expectations of government  * Move beyond siloes * Empower and hold accountable service leaders I'm optimistic about this one. Efforts like this often set a benchmark other cities look to. Read the full letter from the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and Federation of American Scientists 👇 https://lnkd.in/eh-N3pAy 

New York City's newly launched Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew is an important investment in building a more responsive government and delivering public services that are simple, accessible, and trustworthy. In a joint letter, the Beeck Center’s Lynn Overmann and Kirsten Wyatt, alongside Federation of American Scientists Merici Vinton, Laura Sigelmann, and Loren DeJonge Schulman, outline five principles—drawn from insights and lessons shared by more than 100 government leaders who built and led digital service initiatives across local, state, and federal government—to help the (PIT) Crew deliver lasting impact and serve as a model for cities across the country. 👏 Credit to New York City Office of Technology & Innovation and NYC Office of the Mayor for making this bet.