Dunwoody Crier - November 2, 2023

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Innovators strive to make government more accessible By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

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Dunwoody High School’s girls flag football program comes together for a team photo before the fall 2023 season.

Dunwoody girls flag football team eyes spot in playoffs

Head coach Montez Swinney talks to Linsay Parks on the sideline during a girls flag football game at Dunwoody High School.

By HAYDEN SUMLIN | hayden@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody High School’s girls flag football team has high expectations in its fourth season. Head coach Montez Swinney remembers appearing weekly in the Crier as a student-athlete on the Dunwoody High School football team. He thinks it’s time the 7-2 Lady Wildcats get their due. “I think the girls deserve just as much opportunity as the boys,” Swinney said. “To be honest, I think they’re tougher than boys when it comes to certain things.” Swinney said the Atlanta Falcons are a driving force behind girls flag football in Georgia. In partnership with the Georgia High School Association, the sport became officially sanctioned in 2020.

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ROSWELL, Ga. — When James Dillard created Recap Roswell, a website that breaks Roswell City Council meetings into digestible chunks, he drew from his time living in Switzerland as inspiration. “Switzerland is a very high trust society with a very high degree of civic participation,” he said. “When you’re living abroad, you see your home differently, and that caused me to place a greater value on participating, in making the system work.” Dillard also said Robert Putnam’s nonfiction book “Bowling Alone” was an influence. Putnam writes about the decline of social capital, how society is becoming less participatory, even in smaller institutions like social clubs. Dillard is not alone. Other innovators are developing tools to help keep citizens engaged in government. “I feel like Roswell, Georgia, the United States would be healthier if we have more of those institutions, or micro institutions, where people are connecting and going through the process of deciding what they think they should do together and then, trying to make that happen in the real world,” Dillard said. In May, Dillard built Recap Roswell from scratch using ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model developed by the nonprofit organization OpenAI. For each post, he creates a transcript from the video recording of the latest council meeting. Then, he runs the transcript through the OpenAI API, based on a chain of different requests which synthesizes it down to a quick summary.

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50th Anniversary Celebration!

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