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Addressing federal record retention in mobile device messaging

AWS Public Sector Blog

NARA defines federal records as “all recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics, made or received by a Federal agency under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business.” But, as technology evolves and mobile collaboration becomes routine, making sure records are retained can become difficult.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). I have taught it every year since then.

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Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

Education is supplemented by several industry credentials: PMP, Certified Scrum Master, CISSP, and graduated from AMU with an Associate’s in General Studies — Computer Science in 2008 and Bachelor’s in Information Systems Security in 2009. She is a FEMA-trained crisis communicator and certified Advanced Public Information Officer (APIO).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. Bird et al. Gordon 2018.

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Hear from civil servants who have fought workplace discrimination inside and outside of government

Partnership for Public Service

In their conversation with co-hosts Loren DeJonge Schulman and Rachel Klein-Kircher, Ishimaru and Ma discussed: How they have applied their law training to pursue “mission-driven work” in the federal government and with policy advocacy nonprofit organizations. Rebuilding an agency to better serve the public.

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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.