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Responsible AI for Public Professionals
Through hands-on activities, these free courses showcase the practical ways you can use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in your work as a public professional. Addresses what to do and how to avoid risks.
AI for Public Engagement
This free, self-paced course equips you with the skills to design, run and learn from meaningful engagement with communities.
The Innovation Skills Accelerator.
Based on research with thousands of public servants across three continents, our problem-solving curriculum gives you the digital, data and innovation skills to deliver more effective, equitable and engaged policies and services.
Human-Centered Design
Designed by Virginia Hamilton, this course gives participants a substantive overview of the human-centered design framework and offers opportunities to practice applying concepts from the course to your work.
What Works: Fast Field Scanning with AI
This course is designed to help public professionals accelerate the process of finding and implementing urgently-needed evidence-based solutions to public problems. This course is brought to you in partnership with Results for America and Solutions Journalism Network.
Open Justice
Open justice is a growing movement to use new technologies, including big data, digital platforms, blockchain and more, to improve our legal system by making the workings of our legal institutions easier to understand, scrutinize and, we hope, improve. This course is designed to help the public entrepreneur – passionate individuals like you.
Workshop Series
Free, one-hour, live, online sessions with expert faculty to build practical skills you can use right away. Explore live and recorded sessions.
Fall 2026 Schedule
The Prompting Lab
A weekly, hands-on practice lab led by public-sector AI leaders, using real prompts and real challenges across platforms to build practical skills.
Amplify: Mastering Public Communication in the AI Age (New)
Build clear, credible, and accessible communication strategies for explaining public programs, services, and AI use.
Democratic and Public AI: Practical Strategies for Buying, Building, and Governing AI
Understanding what “public AI” is, why it matters, how governments build it, and practical strategies to ensure independence and avoid vendor lock-in.
Worker-Centered AI Adoption in the Public Sector
Learn how to engage workers as partners in AI adoption to improve implementation, governance, and public outcomes.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Predictive AI
Examine when using predictive AI can improve public-sector decisions, when it falls short, and what safeguards responsible use requires.
AI for Public HR Professionals
Use AI to responsibly support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and talent management while protecting fairness and human judgment.
Practical Approaches to Evaluating AI for Public Benefit
Learn how to assess whether AI tools improve outcomes, strengthen services, and deliver public value over time.
AI for Public-Sector Procurement
Build practical skills to leverage AI to improve competitiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency in procurement.
Working with AI Agents in the Public Sector: What Works (and What Doesn’t)
Learn what AI agents are, how they can support government operations and public service delivery, and their responsible use.
AI Insourcing and the Government Product Model
Explore how governments can build, improve, and govern digital products using AI and stronger internal capacity.
Using AI in Public Sector Legal Practice
Explore responsible uses of AI in government legal work, including research, drafting, document review, compliance, and policy analysis.
AI in Public Health
Introduces public health leaders and practitioners to policies, tools, and skills to improve the health and well-being of our communities.
AI and Cybersecurity in the Public Sector for the Non-Expert
Learn the security challenges posed by the use of AI in government and public-facing settings and how to reduce vulnerabilities.
Ideas in Action
The series brings together timely conversations on leadership, technology, service delivery, organizational design, and governance, always grounded in the realities of public sector work.
AI, Energy, and the Environment: Use, Policy, and Tradeoffs
Examine the energy and environmental challenges and opportunities of AI-related infrastructure and public-sector uses of AI.
AI for Public-Sector ProcurementComing UpGetting Started Without Getting Overwhelmed - How procurement teams are taking their first AI steps
Learn how procurement teams are taking their first steps with AI without a big budget or a dedicated tech team. Two practitioner stories show how a "start small" approach can turn a routine, time-consuming task into a quick, reliable one, and how a small, reso…
Practical Approaches to Evaluating AI for Pub…Coming UpTry Before and After You Buy
This session explores how agencies can monitor performance over time, detect emerging problems, and understand when an initially successful implementation may require adjustment or reevaluation.
AI for Public-Sector ProcurementComing UpAI Across the Procurement Lifecycle — Where Does It Actually Fit?
Explore where AI tools fit across the procurement lifecycle, whether planning, solicitation, evaluation, and contract management. See a large-state perspective on integrating AI into a high-volume procurement operation, including where it adds the most value a…
Practical Approaches to Evaluating AI for Pub…Coming UpPrinciples for Public-Sector AI Evaluation
Drawing on lessons from research and practice, this session presents a practical framework for evaluating AI in government.