State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

Public Innovation Academy Offers Practical Training for Gov

Governing: A veteran of gov tech work is launching an online training program called the Public Innovation Academy, which aims to go beyond the scope of programs that most often target C-level or executive participants.

The Public Innovation Academy, which is currently under development with a two-phase launch slated to start closer to the end of the year, is being led by Abhi Nemani, who helped build the nation’s pre-eminent civic tech group, Code for America, and has also served as chief data officer of Los Angeles, as well as the first CIO of Sacramento, Calif. Nemani describes his new online training venture as being aimed at helping people who perform jobs that aren’t necessarily technical, yet are being asked to rapidly use more technology as our reliance on it accelerates.

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