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Q&A: New Orleans CIO Kimberly LaGrue Discusses Cyber Resilience

State Tech Magazine

Mayor Mitch Landrieu appointed her as acting CIO in 2017, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell made her appointment to CIO permanent in 2018. Kimberly LaGrue is CIO of New Orleans and president of the Cities Today Institute North America Cities Leadership Forum on Digitalization. She began her IT career with New Orleans in telecommunications.

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S1 Episode 02: Review of 2017 and Preview of 2018

ParkTalk podcast

Executive Director Ray McGury, Park Board President Mike Reilly and Director of Recreation Brad Wilson touch on the highlights of 2017, including the results of the Community Interest and Opinion Survey and the success of the Fort Hill Activity Center. They introduce the District’s new mission statement and preview new projects for 2018.

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Colorado Springs Continues Quest to Be ‘Smartest of Smart Cities’

State Tech Magazine

Since 2017, Colorado Springs, Colo., Then came a 2018 proclamation to execute a… has pushed to adopt emerging technologies to become smarter, safer and more sustainable.

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How America’s Airports Defend Against Cyberthreats

State Tech Magazine

In 2017, the widely used Saber booking platform was hacked, leading to the crash of reservations for 20 airlines. British Airways was hit by a breach in 2018 that affected 300,000 to 500,… aviation industry has been largely spared from major cyberattack thus far. No one expects it to stay that way.

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After the storms: Research on How to Improve Marine Transportation System Resilience after the 2017 Hurricane Season

Data.gov

A 2018 report from the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) gathered recommendations and ‘lessons learned’ from the 2017 hurricane season on how to improve resiliency across the marine transportation system. The report notes that “over the course … Continued.

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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

Robert Wright in an influential article in WIRED Magazine (10/8/2017) entitled “How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America”, called this mindfulness as something we desperately need in our society and workplaces and “will make us less inclined to embrace and hand on to that “enemy” vide when it surfaces”.

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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

This process significantly reduces the volume of waste while also recovering energy from the waste material (European Commission, 2017). Incineration, for example, can reduce waste volume by up to 90% (European Commission, 2017).