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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. The federal government has increased efforts to improve the security of the software supply chain.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Tax incentive programs underfund schools

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 A 2021 review of 2,498 financial statements from schools across 27 states revealed that in 2019 at least $2.4 The program is supposed to bring new jobs but instead has starved schools. million through tax abatements, according to the Kansas City Public Schools.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S.

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How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: An interview with Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors – Episode #180

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

The California Policy Lab ( @CAPolicyLab ) was launched in January 2017 with a mission to create partnerships between researchers at two of California’s leading universities — UCLA and UC Berkeley — and California’s state and local government agencies.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2021 ; Gubits et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). More specifically, people leaving incarceration often are not adequately served by short-term planning, and instead would benefit from longer-term housing outreach and engagement ( Remster, 2021 ). Another key upstream strategy involves effective discharge planning.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS opened the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, and expanded the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to a full Region in 2021 to give our customers in Japan even lower latency, and the ability to architect workloads for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.