NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This year, over 3,600 local elected officials, partners and municipal staff from 49 states, DC, and Puerto Rico traveled to Kansas City, MO for our first in-person City Summit since 2019. Attendees spent three days attending sessions on the most pressing issues facing America’s cities, towns, and villages.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

On-street traffic deaths in Chicago rose from 96 in 2019 to 139 in 2020. … The push for the city’s Smart Streets Pilots Ordinance is a response to a spike in traffic fatalities at both the local and national level.

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The City Fix

MARCH 2, 2020

In April 2019, Porto Alegre worked with WRI Brasil to implement the first segment of a tactical urbanism project that transformed a key intersection of busy João Alfredo Street, which runs through the heart of the Cidade Baixa neighborhood. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020. According to SonicWall’s 2023 Cyber Threat Report, ransomware has “been on a tear” for the past few years, growing 105 percent year over year in 2021.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

billion in 2019). Along with the promise to completely transform the digital landscape, 5G — the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks — will bring changes to cybersecurity practices and protection as well. 5G download speeds are expected to be 100 times faster than currently possible with 4G.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Another flaw in airline reservation systems, discovered in 2019, affected half of world carriers but was patched before it could be exploited. In 2017, the widely used Saber booking platform was hacked, leading to the crash of reservations for 20 airlines. The breach included the loss of customers’ credit card data and personal information.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 20, 2023

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute provides a more nuanced, long-term view of Nigeria’s development progress from 2000 to 2019 that may help the country shape its future direction.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 29, 2024

Improving veterans’ access to health care is a top priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which started the Veterans Community Care Program in 2019 to do just that. The program allows veterans to make appointments with local health care.

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The City Fix

MARCH 13, 2024

NUMO, the New Urban Mobility alliance, began tracking this phenomenon in 2019 with the New Mobility Atlas. Between 2019 and. Since the mid-2010s, cities around the globe have witnessed the explosion of free-floating electric bikes, mopeds and scooters on their streets.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 25, 2023

In 2019/20, the overwhelming majority (84.9%) of all learners starting an apprenticeship were white; this was even with a 12.3% And the number of BAME apprentices is falling; from 2018/19 to 2019/20, the number of starts by apprentices from BAME backgrounds fell by over 6,000. In 2019, only 16% were female employees.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2022

billion people, close to half of the world’s population, lived in microregions with living standards equivalent to the top 21 percent in 2000.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

In 2019, the city of Lodi, Calif., was hit by ransomware attacks, which prompted CIO Benjamin Buecher to upgrade the city’s defenses. “A A few years back, we were hit by three attacks in three months by the same ransomware,” Buecher says in a Rubrik case study. The attack significantly impacted our municipal services.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2019, only 12 states had established the position. By 2022, 21 states had appointed chief privacy officers, spotlighting the growing importance of the role, according to a report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

The journey to Windows 10 in 2019 was rocky for a number of federal agencies, especially given the looming deadline for Windows 7 end-of-support in early 2020. FedTech reached out to federal IT leaders and asked them what they learned from that experience that might apply to the move to Windows 11. We talked to Maj. Jacqueline D.

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ParkTalk podcast

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2019, a ParkTalk Podcast series covered pickleball's popularity and health benefits. In 2019, a ParkTalk Podcast series covered pickleball's popularity and health benefits. Five years later, we reexamine the sport and explore the growth in the last half decade and how the culture around pickleball can continue to change.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

When Mohammed Al Rawi joined the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office as its first CIO in 2019, reducing the organization’s paper use and making case-related information easier to access were central goals.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2019, NASA had a challenge: The agency was upgrading all its offices to Office 365, and it wanted to include all its employees in the transition, including astronauts on the International Space Station. In September 2019, we delivered Office 365 to the… Astronauts have email; astronauts have iPads,” said Renee P.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And since 1976, our government has shut down 21 times for at least a day, when Congress could not agree on appropriations or pass stopgap funding, including a partial government shutdown of 35 days in 2018-2019. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Science Foundation already had a high percentage of teleworkers; in 2019, 94 percent of the agency’s 1,500 employees worked remotely, with nearly one-quarter of those taking three or more days per week.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The nationally representative 2019-2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study found that almost 23 percent of students pursuing undergraduate degrees reported experiencing low or very low food […] Source Co-Authored by Jaylen Adams, National League of Cities Digital Engagement, Marketing & Communications intern.

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Communications Engagement 59

GCN

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Indiana Office of Technology eliminated degree requirements for most jobs in 2019, and now it uses a work-based learning apprenticeship program to reskill employees keen to learn IT.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When AWS launched these CJIS Security compliance innovations in early 2019, we did so with reference to our AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can confidently deploy CJIS workloads in either AWS (US) region, while maintaining access to simple and powerful cloud native tools to manage the full lifecycle of sensitive data.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

3 (2019): 795-817. 1 (2019): 24-48. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Williams, Joseph Pierce, Deborah G.

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GovLoop

APRIL 13, 2023

When Bill Laughman, who has worked at the division for 21 years, became Complaint Portal Administrator and Product Owner for the new process in 2019, he was skeptical. The transition challenged existing assumptions and habits.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2024

A 2019 Office of Management and Budget governmentwide analysis of app maintenance found that 10 particularly large apps required about $340 million annually to remain operational. Agencies that attempt a simple lift and shift may find themselves moving apps back on-premises, due to a lack of performance improvements or cost savings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released in 2019 , 70 percent of students in grade three remain behind grade level, 57 percent of students in grade nine cannot solve a simple division problem, and almost 50 percent of students drop out of the school system before reaching tenth grade.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 10, 2022

This post was originally published on January 25, 2019. By following best practices for conflict management, any employee can contribute to this kind of positive, dynamic culture. Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash. Favorite.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

August 31, 2023 marked a triumphant conclusion to the 2022-2023 City Inclusive Entrepreneurship (CIE) program year, marking its fourth and most expansive year since the program began in 2019.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 25, 2023

Or that over 5 million new businesses were formed just last year, up 44% from 2019. That’s especially true with their entrepreneurs and small business owners. Maybe that’s because over half of all businesses have fewer than five employees. Or because small businesses continue to […] Source

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When Shannon Lawson came to Phoenix as CISO in 2019, the city was using endpoint protection products he’d never even heard of. At the recommendation of other cybersecurity professionals, Lawson decided to test CrowdStrike products and services in the city’s environment.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 1, 2024

I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024. Meanwhile, areas once reliant on commuters and nightlife have experienced less predictable market reactions as a general rise in prices due to overall housing scarcity is muted by slackening local demand.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 20, 2022

in 2000, moved from Exchange to the SharePoint world in 2007, then added Power Platform in 2019. Over 22 years of experience in supporting and advising customers on enterprise applications. I started with Exchange 5.5 Rebecca Jones.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, where, among other duties, she provided advice and guidance to the Army Chief of Staff on all Army healthcare matters. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. Nadja currently serves on the boards of Johnson & Johnson, Nucor Corp.,

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

A NASBO membership meeting in early August, 2019 #WomeninGovernment #StateandLocalGovernmentHumanResources #StateGovernmentDiversity #PublicSectorWorkforceDiversity #GovernmentLeadershipDiversity #NationalAssociationofStateBudgetOfficers #NASBO #ShelbyKerns #NASBOLeadership #ChangingTimes

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