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Enhancing Federal AI Safety: Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox

Microsoft Public Sector

AI is transforming federal government operations by enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, allowing the workforce to do more with less, and empowering employees to focus on creative tasks while reducing repetitive work. Notably, the US needs to maintain its competitive advantage by leveraging AI.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2019): 795-817.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions.” — The Frugal Architect, Law VII Frugality does not imply rigidity.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

They also agree to actively participate in the data governance framework, providing oversight of the chief data officer’s data sharing operations as a designated Trustee. Law enforcement personnel could identify spikes in overdoses and send their task force to area hospitals to interview individuals and determine where the drugs were sourced.

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

The 700 public sector HR professionals and job seekers who were surveyed also note that law enforcement is one of the hardest areas to fill. Between 2019 and 2023, there was a 40% increase in the number of job openings for police officers. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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How One State Advances Cyber Protection

GovLoop

And whether that involves helping people pay their water bills or allowing law enforcement to preserve crime data, the cost of IT security is worth it, she believes. In August 2019, 23 local governments, from one end of Texas to another, were hit by ransomware. Here are her suggestions to keep government agencies cyber-secure.

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