Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Coordinator Sarah Smith (in hat), with children at Del Valle Day, June 2024.

How to Lay Down Tracks While the Train Is Moving

Mayo 1, 2025

A new paper from the WCWH team explains how they’ve built a long-term, community-based health study — and why sharing the process matters.

Six members of the team represented Good Systems at the peer consortium's gathering in Washington, DC, in February.

UT, Universities Join Forces on AI Ethics

Abril 30, 2025

Good Systems helped launch a national network of universities — a "community of practice" — committed to ethical AI. The group shares research, teaching strategies and policy ideas to ensure AI advances in a just and responsible way.

Good Systems’ Sherri Greenberg (left), an Austin AI Alliance board member, moderates a panel discussion at the Alliance’s State of AI in Austin event in February.

In Good Company

Abril 29, 2025

Good Systems is part of a growing alliance of tech, civic and academic partners working to shape the future of AI in Austin through ethics, education, policy and practical collaboration.

The Climate Navigators and other project leaders celebrate the launch of the Resilience Navigation Portal, September 2024.

Navigating Climate Challenges

Abril 29, 2025

A new community-built portal is helping East Austin neighborhoods prepare for disasters, thanks to a Planet Texas 2050 collaboration that blends hyperlocal insight with cutting-edge climate data.

Araceli McBeth and Rebecca Gomez, parent community liaisons at Newton Collins Elementary School and Ojeda Middle School, respectively, accept the Cornerstone Award from WCWH chair Mike Mackert on behalf of DVISD.

Cornerstones and Guiding Lights

Abril 21, 2025
Whole Communities–Whole Health’s (WCWH) annual symposium kicked off with good vibes by recognizing seven outstanding community partners. The awards, presented in two categories, honor organizations and individuals whose dedication has been instrumental in advancing WCWH’s mission to build research collaborations that benefit Central Texas families.
Flash-funding award recipient Akram Al-Turk, a research associate at the Moritz Center for Societal Impact at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, works on his grant proposal at the WCWH Symposium, February 7.

Rapid Pitches, Real-World Impact

Abril 15, 2025

Two research teams won rapid-turnaround grants at the 2025 Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Symposium for projects tackling health and environmental issues in Central Texas.

UT professor Matthew Lease speaks on a panel about the ethics and policy of AI at the TAMEST conference

AI Companies Are Turning Gig Workers into Human Farms

Marzo 28, 2025

With a constant need to expand data sets, highly educated employees are being asked to feed sentences to machines all day long.

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Proposed Texas House bill aims to regulate AI in politics

Marzo 27, 2025

A bill to label some campaigns advertisements as artificial intelligence (AI) has received a favorable committee report, but it could be headed for trouble.

A child gets his face painted at Community Resource Day; April 2024

Trust or Bust

Marzo 18, 2025

Building trust is at the heart of Whole Communities–Whole Health’s research. By returning data, listening to feedback and engaging families as collaborators, WCWH is strengthening community connections and refining approaches to long-term, community-based studies.

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How Will AI Work With Human Intelligence?

Marzo 15, 2025

In this episode of The Next Innovation, host Samantha Murphy Kelly takes the stage at Ireland House, the designated meeting point of Enterprise Ireland innovators and leaders during the annual SXSW tech conference in Austin, Texas