FedRAMP Must Scale to Keep Pace with Federal SaaS Adoption
FedTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Agencies increasingly avoid having to develop or operate software themselves by connecting to cloud-based apps for everything from hiring to healthcare.
GPT consult: Leading the way as authorising engineers
Open Access Government - Technology News
JULY 8, 2024
Recent support includes a patients claim against a hospital where they contracted an infection post-operation. Working across the spectrum supporting PFI providers, NHS trusts and patients with expert opinion, drawing on the experience and expertise of Graham and the team.
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Post Earthquake: Managing the Situation in Christchurch NZ
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
AUGUST 6, 2024
In this Disaster Zone Podcast we will be talking about the significant challenges New Zealand and Christchurch faced in the aftermath of their 2010-2011 Earthquakes. The podcast guest is Brent Winder is a native New Zealander. You can contact him at Brenden.Winder@ccc.govt.nz The podcast guest is Brent Winder is a native New Zealander.
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UM-Bridge: leveraging Kubernetes for scalable Uncertainty Quantification in the cloud
Google Public Sector
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The same holds for many optimization and ML algorithms operating on mathematical models as well!) Each model instance may itself be parallelized across multiple nodes (and therefore containers) via MPI, which we support as a special case, making use of kubeflow's mpi-operator.
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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). It’s important to be strategic to promote relationship synergy and maximize benefits for both parties (White 2011).
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The New Modernization Mindset: Focus on Innovation
GovLoop
DECEMBER 23, 2024
FedRAMP Prioritizes Emerging Tech Since 2011, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has served as a standardized approach to ensuring that cloud technologies meet government requirements for security. But agencies are increasingly unwilling to wait.
Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
MARCH 7, 2023
Doug Stockham co-founded Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) – a 501(c)(3) public non-profit – in 2011 to help companies take care of their team members in need. Doug Stockham co-founded Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) – a 501(c)(3) public non-profit – in 2011 to help companies take care of their team members in need.
Emergency Management's Use of Social Media
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
JUNE 20, 2023
Eric Holdeman linked up with Hal back in 2011 when he was leading the effort to establish governance procedures for the use of social media. Eric Holdeman linked up with Hal back in 2011 when he was leading the effort to establish governance procedures for the use of social media.
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Michael Huerta: COVID-19 and Airline Bankruptcy?
Policy Chats
APRIL 20, 2020
Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.
COVID-19: Airline Bankruptcy? (with Michael Huerta)
Policy Chats
APRIL 20, 2020
Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.
COVID-19: Airline Bankruptcy? (with Michael Huerta)
Policy Chats
APRIL 20, 2020
Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.
As cyber threats evolve, cities and counties need to safeguard staffers’ mobile devices
American City & Country
OCTOBER 25, 2024
He adds that cyber mischief today can be lethal very quickly to government IT operations: “These modern kill chain attacks are quick and highly effective, accelerating the timeline for ransomware and other cyberattacks from months to minutes.”
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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.
How to Lay a Solid Foundation for Modernizations
GovLoop
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Since the cloud-first policy came out in 2011, the federal government has pushed for the use of cloud technologies as a foundation to IT modernization. But cloud alone is not a silver bullet. It must be paired with modern on-premises hardware to maximize benefits.
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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 trillion in total capital and operational expenditure associated with our two AWS infrastructure Regions in the country. In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. View a larger version of this image.
Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 3, 2024
Traditional technology procurement challenges service transformation When the UK government wanted to transform services to make them modern and digital in 2011, the approach to technology investment then was the same as it was for capital infrastructure projects such as road building.
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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing
AWS Public Sector Blog
MAY 28, 2024
The NRRP national recovery plan invests heavily in digitizing healthcare through initiatives like home care, telemedicine services, and more than 600 territorial healthcare operational centers. Spain has prioritized advancing digital health services while ensuring data protection and, since 2011, has been part of the eHealth Network.
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How the UK’s Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is building rigorous evidence about how to close education achievement gaps: An interview with Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive, EEF – Episode #130
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 13, 2016
Launched in 2011 with a founding grant of £125 million from the UK Department of Education, today it operates as an independent grant making nonprofit. To do that, it has a unique strategy: increasing the supply of high-quality evidence about what works in order to enable better decisions by teachers and school leaders.
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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.
A Cloud-Driven Business Model
GovLoop
AUGUST 3, 2023
You’re replacing heavy upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) with ongoing operating expenses (OpEx). GSA began its cloud journey in 2011, as the first agency to adopt cloud-based email. Where data centers require periodic investments in hardware, moving to the cloud changes the equation.
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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal
Center for Community Progress
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The establishment of the New York Land Bank Act in 2011 was big news. To kick off the LBI in 2022, HCR offered a non-competitive funding opportunity to provide baseline operations and non-capital funding for the land banks. These awards were renewable to offer up to three years of consistent operational funding.
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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. Inability to continue mortgage servicing operations. 23 Yet that 0.25
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The real burden of risk
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre The problem is that procedural rigidity constrains us to use methods for harmless travel that are the same as those that apply to dangerous experiments and surgical operations. A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. metre tsunami here.
Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. DC streetcar advocates are holding a community event to advocate for expansion of the streetcar to Ward 7, which DC Council recently defunded. A perfect example is the DC streetcar.
GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MARCH 16, 2021
The tsunami museum at Rikusentakata, seen from atop the coastal tsunami barrier across the land that was devastated by the waves in March 2011 Thursday 11 th March 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the Japanese triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and radiation release. A tsunami is usually nothing like the breakers that surfers ride.
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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MAY 6, 2024
No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. COBRA, the national 'nerve centre' for directing major emergency actions in the UK, is a relatively small entity that does not match up to the specifications of a well-endowed national emergency operations centre.
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Accelerating digital transformation to revitalize local economy and improve lives in Japan
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1,351 billion in total capital and operational expenditure associated with our two AWS infrastructure Regions in the country, Tokyo and Osaka. The program includes a systematic learning curriculum ranging from lectures on basic cloud knowledge to hands-on practical use of AWS for free.
National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 10, 2024
The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011). Libraries as community hubs. Probably in rented space (" PC Tots invites all to ribbon cutting at Park City Library ," Park Record ). Libros Book Club. Photo: Nate Martinez, Express-News.
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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Explore Amazon Bedrock and see how it can bring efficiency and intelligence to your public sector operations. Are you ready to transform your document processing workflows with AI? Contact your AWS account team to discuss how this solution can be tailored to your specific needs.
Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
I know that Miami is served by bus, a heavy rail system that was burdened by a poor system design that didn't focus on stoking ridership, an intra-district downtown transit service called Metromover (" Making the case for intra-city vs. inter-city transit planning ," 2011, " Brief follow up to intra-district transit proposal for Tysons: Toyama City (..)
Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. This was more than just a recovery from the severe downturn of the financial crisis.
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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MAY 17, 2022
Before we dive into the constitutionality of possible ways to expand the circuit breaker to satisfy varying county desires, first let’s review how the circuit breaker currently operates. I provide more details than you might care to know about the circuit breaker in this bulletin, but here is the TL;DR explainer.
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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
percent average G-fee in 2021, about one-third represents items such as operating expenses and loan losses, i.e., things other than the return on capital, and the other two-thirds the needed capital return – or a split (with some rounding) of about 0.15 Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30 31 Increasing the 0.30 percentage points.
County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
OCTOBER 12, 2023
594, 607 (2011). 153A-256 authorizes counties to establish, erect, acquire, lease, equip, support, operate, and maintain a county home for “aged and infirm persons.” However, activities that satisfy the North Carolina Constitution’s “public purpose” requirement are not exclusive emoluments. See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C.
Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. I can't think of a worse walk.
Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap
AWS Public Sector Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
During the keynote, two Canadian public sector customers—Shared Services Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency—took to the stage to share their stories about how they are leveraging AWS to accelerate innovation, improve citizens’ lives, transform their operations, and drive their missions forward at scale. Digital transformation is continuous.
Megabus bankruptcy: merge inter-city bus services with Amtrak
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 16, 2024
The low-cost bus service was a immediate hit with Pittsburghers when it arrived in the city in 2011. It will operate on an “ordinary course” pending the court’s decision. The agreement also expanded Megabus service from Philadelphia (11 new cities), Harrisburg (9), State College (18) and New York City (14).
Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy
Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Retrieved from [link]. Overeem, Patrick (2012).
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Government failure in Texas: electricity generation in extreme cold weather (reprint)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Texas’ grid operator on Friday released its predictions for peak electricity use in Texas for this winter that showed steep shortfalls in power capacity in an extreme event, despite not accounting for February’s deadly freeze. So what's up for Texans this winter?
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Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 14, 2024
Pullman was an industrial community, known for being the home of the Pullman railcar operation, which finally went kaput in 1955, although it manufactured cars elsewhere into the 1980s, and was later absorbed by Bombardier. From a publicity brochure published by the Pullman Company. National Monument.
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
JANUARY 3, 2014
Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.
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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 12, 2016
First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. 7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Look out world.
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Ben Bishin: 2020 Election and A Divided Congress
Policy Chats
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
He is author of Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation and recipient of the 2001 Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best paper on Legislative Politics and, along with his coauthors, winner of the 2011 and 2014 Bailey Awards for the best paper on gay and lesbian politics.
2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)
Policy Chats
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
He is author of Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation and recipient of the 2001 Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best paper on Legislative Politics and, along with his coauthors, winner of the 2011 and 2014 Bailey Awards for the best paper on gay and lesbian politics.
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