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AI Governance & Digital Risk August 30, 2026

The Procurement File Is the Governance System

Artificial intelligence governance is increasingly expressed through policies, committees, principles, inventories, and risk classifications. Those structures matter. But when a public institution actually acquires and deploys an AI system, governance eventually has to become something much less abstract. It has…

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Strategic Risk August 25, 2026

When Local Government Automates an Accusation

What a disputed red-light-camera citation reveals about AI governance, private vendors, public data, and institutional accountability Novara Consulting Group | AI Governance × Local Government | August 2026 A resident opens an envelope from his city and finds an accusation…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance August 23, 2026

The Coordinates of Trust

NOVARA CONSULTING GROUP  ·  NCG SPECIAL ARTICLE The Coordinates of Trust A governance reading of Google DeepMind’s SL2T Heather M. Grizzle  ·  Novara Consulting Group  ·  22 August 2026 On 12 August 2026, Google DeepMind released SL2T, a sign-language-to-text translation…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance August 17, 2026

AI Can Translate. But Who Translates the Risk?

Every AI deployment moves risk onto someone. In most cases it lands on the person with the least ability to detect an error and the least authority to challenge it. Heather M. Grizzle Novara Consulting Group August 17, 2026 Earlier…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance August 15, 2026

The Demo Is Not the Evidence: What Google DeepMind’s Sign Language AI Must Prove Next

On August 12, Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, and began shipping it in consumer products through Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11. The initial release translates American Sign Language into English, with additional devices and…

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Deaf X Human Resources August 12, 2026

Worthy of the Trust: The Sledd Case and Safeguarding in Deaf Schools

The criminal case against former Oklahoma School for the Deaf teacher and coach Sean Thomas Sledd has moved forward following his surrender to authorities and release on a $275,000 bond. As the legal process continues, a separate and important discussion…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance August 4, 2026

The Evidence That Wasn’t And Still Isn’t There

THE FIFTH PARAMETER Novara Consulting Group  ·  Novara Press  ·  Journal of Governance and Evidence in Accessibility AI The Fifth Parameter, Vol. 1 · Issue no 13 AUTHOR  Heather M. Grizzle ORCID  0009-0005-2605-8256 EVIDENCE DATE  Current to August 2026 KEYWORDS …

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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 27, 2026

The Consent Gap: Undisclosed Data Collection in Sign Language AI Interpreting Systems

Executive Summary Sign language artificial intelligence, whether built for recognition, translation, or avatar-based generation, depends structurally on video or biometric capture of Deaf and hard of hearing users. This dependency creates a data governance problem that has received far less…

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Agentic Commerce July 26, 2026

The End of Remediation: Generative AI and the Governance Transformation of Accessibility

For nearly three decades, digital accessibility has been understood primarily as a remediation problem. Organizations create information, accessibility professionals identify barriers, and documents, websites, applications, or multimedia are subsequently modified until they satisfy applicable legal and technical standards. This model…

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