Why New Jersey’s innovation office is expanding

On this week’s Priorities Podcast, New Jersey Chief Innovation Officer Dave Cole shares the progress of his Office of Innovation. He says his office is expanding, with plans to add 20 additional staff members, to bolster projects like a recent streamlining of the state’s unemployment insurance application. He says generative artificial intelligence sometimes aids the office’s work, which is ramping up ahead of a deadline to spend federal funding for IT projects after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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