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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Share data and facilitate collaboration For first responders, poor communication can have dire consequences. Prior to modern technology, each of our stations worked and communicated in an isolated format,” noted Davis. “We We could stop an individual for driving under the influence, process the next steps, and release them on summons.

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Prior to that, Johnson served as the director of administrative services at the California State Board of Equalization from 2005 to 2007 and held various positions at the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1989 to 2005.

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The Government Workplace Makeover

GovLoop

Since [my team] started testing workplace strategies in 2005, the most significant workplace feature that attracts and retains talent has remained constant. “It’s not ‘whatever you want’, but a curated choice aligned with mission: ‘Here are two or three different things you can pick from. Which one fits your needs?’” Hardy said.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. Then it came to pass.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

We have argued, first of all, for adopting a broad concept of “information”—so that it is defined as something that refers not only to communications media and the messages transmitted, but also to the increasingly material “information content” of all things, including weapons and other sorts of systems. Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). At the time, the average visit to a BMV office lasted 30 minutes, but Daniels knew that it often took (and felt) much longer. “I

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors. Let's lay it on the line: these are disasters.