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The Government Workplace Makeover

GovLoop

Charles Hardy, Chief Architect of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Buildings Service, is a licensed architect, workplace strategist and certified construction manager. Since [my team] started testing workplace strategies in 2005, the most significant workplace feature that attracts and retains talent has remained constant.

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Defending sovereign workloads: Google Distributed Cloud's air-gapped approach to Zero Trust

Google Public Sector

This includes GDC air-gapped, a disconnected private cloud environment for managing classified, restricted, and top-secret data that can help organizations meet public sector regulatory and security standards. Air-gapped clouds also face risks from insider threats, physical compromise, and hardware-based malware injections.

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To shift away some trips from the car, we need super robust transportation demand management processes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Corridor management. For the most park, transportation agencies don't do corridor management, where they coordinate all modes within a mobilty corridor, like I-15, which is paralleled by the Frontrunner commuter rail line, and has light rail transit too. Transportation demand management as a priority.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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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). In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team. The team cut the online prices $5.00

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India’s Shift to Low-Carbon Construction Must Not Leave Workers Behind

The City Fix

India aims to reduce the emissions intensity of its economy by 45% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070. The country can’t achieve either goal without a radical transformation in its buildings and construction sector, which was responsible for around 17% of the nation’s.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. are crises which have to be managed simultaneously at several levels, from international to local. Jonathan Cape, London, 352 pp.