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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. He is also concurrently the senior advisor of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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The Government Workplace Makeover

GovLoop

As the agency’s lead executive in charge of workplace strategy, he oversees research and development of office innovations. Since [my team] started testing workplace strategies in 2005, the most significant workplace feature that attracts and retains talent has remained constant. 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. To understand the magnitude of the task let me briefly describe an example, that of Covid-19 in one country.

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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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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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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). A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them. In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.