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STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD Amy Edwards Holmes Executive Director, Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence Johns Hopkins University “Toward An AI Ready Workforce” SubCommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability January 17, 2024
Thank you for inviting me to share a statement for the record for this hearing on building an AI Ready Workforce, which reflects my professional expertise and is not a position of Johns Hopkins University or Medicine. For more than 20 years, I have worked to increase the capacity of public sector organizations to build data-fluent workforces and harness data to generate public value and improve public services while strengthening the research and evidence base around data practices that work. Most recently, I served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where I led government-wide data and modernization reforms to make the federal government more transparent and effective. In that capacity, I led the policy development and implementation of the first open data law in the U.S.– the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – which standardized data for more than $6 trillion in annual spend and enabled taxpayers to monitor how federal funds are allocated and trace those funds to direct investments in their communities. Previously, I was the Director of the Task Force on Government Performance for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee where I led reforms to increase the use of data for Congressional decision-making. Today, I lead the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University with a simple yet ambitious goal: to help governments, primarily cities, use data effectively to improve the lives of residents across the United States and around the globe. Over the past eight years, GovEx has established itself as a global leader, working alongside thousands of public officials to achieve our goal. We are the go-to resource for governments as they seek to improve data proficiency and develop data-driven policy solutions drawing on the most cutting-edge technology, including AI and advanced analytics. Technological progress can
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