Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). It lacks a national emergency operations centre. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

As such, ML is now embedded into many day-to-day operations. This is likely due to its most commonly identified benefits: enhanced data and analytics capabilities, increased operational efficiency and improved fraud and money laundering detection. This was back in 2017, and AI has significantly improved since then.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 18, 2023

In this podcast the expert guest is Rob Ray, Senior Vice President, for Operations at AshBritt, a national government solutions provider specializing in emergency management and disaster response.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Operational since November 2022, as part of AWS’s total investment of INR 1,36,500 crores (US $16.4 In 2017, AWS India became the first global CSP in India to receive full empanelment for its cloud service offerings after the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region completed MeitY’s STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) audit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The search for a new OMS In 2017, IDOC parted ways with a vendor and crafted a request for proposal (RFP). The new OMS is improving operational efficiencies, for example, lessening the time to intake and assign an individual, and reducing IT infrastructure and maintenance. This blog post provides a brief overview of the project.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Operated by applied science and technology development company Battelle since 2016, NEON was designed and fully funded by the U.S. NEON is a continental-scale observatory that collects ecological data to better understand our changing ecosystem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. The point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. 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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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She served on the council for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from 2017-2020, and was the 2021 AMS Annual Meeting co-chair, bringing in nearly 5000 attendees, and the first time ever as a virtual conference. She was recently elected as a "Fellow" of the AMS in 2024 for outstanding contributions to the field of meteorology.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 23, 2023

He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. The guest, Captain Eric Von Brandenfels is an experienced mariner and Puget Sound Pilot. He is married with two grown children.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 400,000 Australians on cloud and IT skills. With cloud as the new operational foundation, governments can fully embrace innovation to revolutionize constituent services and operational effectiveness. He transitioned from those findings to highlight a renewable energy milestone.

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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. If it wasn't forthcoming, only then cut service.

Transportation 52

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2024

Threading the legal needle While the benefits of adopting this technology are clear, the process of quick and cost-effective deployment can often resemble threading a needle for both local authorities and operators. Instead, establishing non-exclusive Open Access agreements now offers industry and local authorities a simpler way of working.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

Ransomware targeting the NHS In addition, there is also a considerable amount of data created by running NHS operations behind the patient frontline services such as HR, procurement, and finance. 2017 the Wannacry attack hit almost a hundred countries, targeting public and private sector organisations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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Decisions That Matter

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2017 Kara received MAPP’s Buyer of the Year (large entity) award.

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Decisions That Matter

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2017 Kara received MAPP’s Buyer of the Year (large entity) award.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

The real challenge we face is that every year, our operational costs go up 2 million dollars ($2,000,000) while the State imposed levy caps limit us to a half million dollars ($500,000) in new tax levy. In preparing the 2017 budget, we will aspire higher. That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. We are FAR from broke.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PBB is a resource allocation tool that depends on strong policy vision and direction, and a mechanism to infuse policy into operations – Strathcona County’s implementation has set the bar at new heights in this regard. Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions. The full article is posted below.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Amazon has heavily invested in green energy for powering its operations globally, and has invested in two solar farms in regional New South Wales (NSW) with the mission to power operations with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025. During the operational phase, establish strong feedback loops to continuously improve your AI systems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I suggested a system for secure bicycle parking operating at the metropolitan scale a few years ago, based in part on the Parkiteer model in Melbourne.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017). But that could be reversed in association with Brightline service extension from Orlando, especially if they have examples of Brightline + local transit network improvement in Orlando and the South Florida cities now.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Prior to his work with DC, he was one of the founders of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at the White House, which applied insights from the behavioral sciences to improving federal agency operations. Learn more on its website and in media coverage by the New York Times.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 7, 2016

Eileen Granata, the city’s chief operating officer, said the group will compile a database and produce a report after doing a series of interviews with city officials, employees, and residents. It will include recommendations and data that could be used to help create the city’s 2017 budget, she said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

The comment thread on the NPS post (" National Park Service as operator of local parks in DC ") a couple back reminded me I meant to write about "Loch Raven Reservoir" because it was written about in a recent Baltimore Sun column, " At Baltimore's Loch Raven Reservoir, a good walk spoiled." Cromwell Valley Park is a Baltimore County park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Also see " The nature of high value ("strong") residential real estate markets ," 2017. The city’s Housing Department ran the data and found, at this early stage, the program is working in some ways but is challenged in others. It might just be adding expensive units in already expensive neighborhoods.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

It operates with a regulatory framework based on transparency, efficiency, accessibility, and nondiscrimination. Transparency – A 2017 study of more than four million government contracts in the European Union (EU) found that every additional item of information published about a tender decreased the risk of a single-bid contract.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 11, 2023

The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. For awhile, a sister publication also operated in Cleveland. School reform and how can communities respond.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017. Financial operations and spend controls FinOps is the practice of managing spend on cloud technology.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Azure Commercial and Azure Government each have a Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO/PA) from the FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO). Secure Operations : Security controls and monitoring will continuously be improved to meet current and future threats. See below for more details in the GCC section.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Credentials: BA, Marketing – Kent State University, MBA, Leadership and Business Management – Kent State University Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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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. Then often following high-profile incidents and media coverage there are periods of heightened public awareness about safety issues that tend to lead to changes and or stronger enforcement of building codes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

BTMFBA, or Buy The Mother F Building Already, is a set of blog entries about how arts groups specifically and nonprofits more generally, need to own their facilities in order to be able to control their futures -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," 2016 -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BTMFBA is a series of articles about the need to control your real estate if you want to maintain arts uses. -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," 2023 -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let the city/county own the cultural facility, while you operate it (San Francisco and the Fillmore Heritage Center) ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: Baltimore and the Area 405 Studio (..)

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

At the same time, data in the cloud underpins many of the technologies agencies are investing in, making the cloud critical to current and future operational success. Sonoma County, California has put cloud and data integration to work to improve its human services delivery to support residents experiencing or at risk for homelessness.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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