Remove 2016 Remove Education Remove Implementation
article thumbnail

Rethinking how to hire and retain cloud talent in the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. Idaho collaborates with AWS on statewide cloud computing training and education effort. Rethin k skill potential in hiring.

article thumbnail

Generative AI as a force for good in facilitating cyber-resiliency in public sector organizations

AWS Public Sector Blog

Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022. Considering the highly sensitive nature of organizational cybersecurity data, security and trust were heavily prioritized in My eCISO’s design and implementation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Marathon County, WI Gets Their Priorities Straight!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

" We need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities." - Brad Karger, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger This article originally written by Brad Karger and published in the Summer 2016 Marathon County Newsletter. 160 million dollars ($160,000,000) is A LOT of money.

article thumbnail

The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. When there is a new program, insiders may focus on distributing implementation to separate groups with purview over the various pieces. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

article thumbnail

How school districts can use rigorous program evaluation to test new education reforms: An interview with Matthew Lenard, Director, Data Strategy and Analytics, Wake County Public Schools – Episode #123

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

When schools or school districts implement district wide reform initiatives, how can they accurately determine if those reform efforts are having the positive effects that school leaders had hoped? How, in other words, can they move beyond anecdotes or simple trend data and rigorously evaluate their district wide reform initiatives?

article thumbnail

Making rigorous program evaluation easier with RCT-YES software: An interview with Peter Schochet, Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research – Episode #137

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Public leaders — whether they’re helping run a state agency, a school system, a hospital, a set of Head Start centers or any other organization — are likely to implement changes over time, whether it’s adjusting programs or adding new services.

article thumbnail

The threat within: Mitigating modern insider threats effectively

Open Access Government - Technology News

One example of this is the 2016 case of a former Google employee downloading thousands of highly sensitive company files onto his personal laptop (pertaining to Google’s self-driving car project) and handing them over to his new employer, Uber. Their actions could involve exfiltrating sensitive data or stealing intellectual property.