AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that makes foundation models such as Anthropic’s Claude easily accessible through an API that leverages a serverless experience while enabling customers to keep data collected by the chatbot secure within their own AWS environment.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The evolution of PBB to incorporate the rigorous evaluation of one-time initiatives and capital projects relative to their benefit to the community has been a recent development; led by cities like Kenmore, WA, South Jordan, UT and Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada. The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Mechanisms to help businesses and organisations identify and managed risks for the design and implementation of AI solutions are being introduced globally, including a variety of international standards ( ISO 42001 , ISO 23894 , and NIST RMF ), legislation ( EU AI Act ), and localised standards and frameworks such as the NSW AI Assurance Framework.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. You can use Audit Manager to continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify risk and compliance assessment. Audit Manager collects evidence from multiple data sources as an ongoing process once you create your assessment.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017. The struggle is in the balancing act between safety, regulation and economic development, as well as the tendency for lessons learned from past disasters that fade with time.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Developed in collaboration with our partners, the two TTMs currently available to partners are the Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) and the CFO Cloud Conversations (CCC). After completing the program, Ensono focused on its expertise as an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) and experienced a 25% growth in total AWS opportunities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. To address this, icometrix developed a machine learning (ML)-based analysis pipeline. A new pipeline was developed using a hybrid approach.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 9, 2023

The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a Power Platform Center of Excellence in the Federal Government Sphere June 21st @ 1pm ET Established in 2020, Transport Canada’s Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) team has been involved in Governance, Professional Development, and Citizen Development.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MAY 26, 2017

There has been substantial growth in the use of experiments in public management over recent years. We asked a set of leading experimental researchers of public management to contribute and were delighted when all agreed to participate. Experiments should take their place alongside other methods in public management.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JULY 26, 2017

The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. Continued empirical progress, however, needs significant theoretical development.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Generative AI (Gen AI), introduced in 2017, has had limited influence on most practising data scientists. The development of easy-to-use tools has given rise to “amateur” data scientists and self-appointed AI consultants, highlighting the need for experienced professionals to make an even stronger case for safe and accurate practices.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

I've written so much about how Prince George's County, Maryland has been handed so many opportunities to reposition the county around transit oriented development, yet they've failed to take advantage of the opportunities time and time again. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). Note that Alex B./City I hope they read it.) Improve the Public Schools.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. But it is also a management failure of local government. The director then, Mark R.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

Looking at machine learning (ML), in particular, they found that the number of UK financial services firms using ML is rising, with 72% reporting that they either use or develop ML applications. These applications are being used in more and more areas of business, largely due to the rapid development of such technology.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it would have to be built into the experience. That would add some money to the till.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 31, 2017

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. Here, I outline some of the challenges and opportunities we face as we work to develop top-notch undergraduate programs that advance public service.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. This last theory I found particularly intriguing – especially given my interest in mapping as a tool for strategy development.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JULY 21, 2022

Mary has been employed with New Kensington CDC since July 10, 2017. Prior to her employment at NKCDC, Mary led a team of Housing Counselors as their supervisor at lntercultural Family Services from 2008 until 2017. Mary has been employed with New Kensington CDC since July 10, 2017. Episode transcript available here: [link].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies. For example, Arts Councils probably need to add some economic development planners. But I'm not sure good the average arts council is on these functions either.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Shadow IT — that is, technology that the IT department does not approve or manage — continues to be a bugaboo. A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

Despite their limited capacity and resources, the COGs relentlessly advocated for investment to address the significant amount of vacant and abandoned properties harming their communities, culminating in the creation of the TCLB in 2017. Priority 2: Facilitate Community Resiliency Through Vacant Land Reclamation Vacant land (i.e.,

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team. When Justin Davis joined the BMV in 2017 as Contact Center Director, the employee attrition rate there was almost 200% per year, while customer satisfaction ratings were sinking. The team cut the online prices $5.00

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Japanese system integrators, consulting partners, and independent software vendors help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers’ environments.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

this podcast we learn how EAF has been agile and adaptable by harnessing technology, developing scalable platforms and procedures, and constantly evaluating and improving processes. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prerequisites For this solution, make sure you have completed the following prerequisites: Access to an AWS account with appropriate permissions to access below services using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription.

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California Department of Technology

APRIL 5, 2023

April 5, 2023 – Changes made to CDT’s Project Management Leadership Academy (PMLA) made it more attractive to prospective students. Its most recent application period closed with a record number of applicants since its establishment in 2017.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. Murphy, S.,

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Steve currently serves on the board of the Foundation for America's Public Lands, a congressionally-authorized non-profit working to support the mission and objectives of the Bureau of Land Management. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. AmeriCares, and others.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

We end on a lighter note sharing our hopes for a fresh new year putting COVID behind us and looking forward to in-person convenings and more high impact community development work. Together we explore tools for modern day CRA programs, regulatory reform and philanthropic priorities during the pandemic.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Know When Engagement Matters (and Doesn’t) Agencies develop many digital tools for constituent engagement, but sometimes the best response is…silence. According to Summer Xiao , Deputy CIO in Houston’s Project Management Office, “The public actually doesn’t want to engage with you.” How do we get people more excited about engaging…?

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JULY 21, 2022

Mary has been employed with New Kensington CDC since July 10, 2017. Prior to her employment at NKCDC, Mary led a team of Housing Counselors as their supervisor at lntercultural Family Services from 2008 until 2017. Mary has been employed with New Kensington CDC since July 10, 2017.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 22, 2017

Project Evident ( @project_evident ) launched earlier this year to help nonprofit leaders and their funders develop and implement multi-year evidence-building plans – plans that can help those nonprofits to provide evidence-based programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Although it has a problem of not necessarily including for profit actors. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 --" Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," (..)

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Sherwood Park News recently published an opinion article written by Strathcona County Mayor Roxanne Carr ( Heading into county budget 2017 ). Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions. Click here to view the full 2017 Strathcona County recommended budget. 23, 25, 28 and Dec.

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