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

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

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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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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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In addition to the episodes we release every other Tuesday morning, we are adding an extra episode each month that takes a deeper look at Parks & Recreation magazine’s feature article. On this episode we explore how one of the hottest topics of 2019 (check out eSports at the Rec Center?

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GovLoop

JULY 18, 2023

Dr. Brantley was awarded the 2019 Emerging Training Leader by Training Magazine and is an IPMA-HR SCP, a Certified Professional in Talent Development, an ROI certified professional, a certified data scientist, and a Certified Professional in Training Management. Patent and Trademark Office. Image by MasterTux from Pixabay Favorite

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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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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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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

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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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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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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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

The city of Benbrook moved its phone system to the cloud in 2019, he said, giving the government an opportunity to transition employees to a computer-based phone, or soft phone. But employees didn’t like the idea, so each Benbrook city employee retained a physical handset — a familiar…

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We would call these "naturally occurring arts districts" in the vein of " naturally occurring retirement communities " and what I call "naturally occurring innovation districts" (" Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014).

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

While the 2019 National Defense Authorization… Speaking Monday at the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology & Innovation Summit, Louis Blazy said the technology to remotely stop a car in motion already exists, and domestic countermeasures are in place. But they’re harder to implement on foreign soil.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The March issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on this bonus episode of Open Space Radio we’re diving deeper into one of the feature articles, “ St. We also talk about the release of the Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan that was recently released in December 2019. Louis: A Path Toward Equitable Design.”

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 14, 2020

On today’s episode of Open Space Radio, we’re going back to the 2019 NRPA Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, where we met with Julianne Mills, a program manager for Disabled Sports USA.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They presented a session at the 2019 NRPA Annual Conference in Baltimore on the anatomy of a great fireworks display, and recently had an article in the December issue of Parks & Recreation magazine — and we’re excited to chat with them on the show today.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Broken Windows theory (" Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety ," Atlantic Magazine , 1982) posits that communities where there are vacant buildings, litter, abandoned cars etc. communicate that it's okay to commit crime.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2019 the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3, the first update to FIPS 140 since the 140-2 update in 2002 Federal agencies are transitioning from the military-grade security of FIPS 140-2 to the new FIPS 140-3 standard.

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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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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 26, 2020

Disclaimer: Today’s episode was previously recorded and focuses on how parks can help save fireflies, which is the cover story of the April issue of Parks & Recreation magazine.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MAY 21, 2020

In 2019, the Los Angeles Times reported there were nearly 60,000 people experiencing homelessness in L.A. Diaz discusses how RAP serves as the mass-care shelter and welfare arm of the city of Los Angeles during emergencies and how that has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Let's Talk Parks

JULY 15, 2020

She received the Distinguished Service award in 2019 from the Southern Illinois University Park and Recreation Department. She was 2018-2019 Chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee. She is a board member for the National Association of Park Foundations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

High Trestle Bridge on the Trestle Trail at night, Iowa " Kehinde Wiley's Anti-Confederate Memorial ," New Yorker Magazine permanently installed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond An advantage of ephemerality is that after awhile, patrons may take permanent pieces for granted and pay less attention.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Although older adults previously trailed behind younger generations in online engagement, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) , “Internet use for 65-to 74-year-olds’ has increased from 71% in 2019 (before COVID-19) to 98% in 2022.

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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+ ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Las Vegas has a bus-based transit system (" Las Vegas RTC: Where Image is Important ," Mass Transit Magazine ). RTC Southern Nevada is the public transit agency in the Las Vegas Valley.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Examples include Campus Martius in Detroit (" The Beach at Campus Martius ," Project for Public Spaces), Levy Park in Houston ( Levy Park , OJB Architecture), Guthrie Green in Tulsa (" Land for you and me: Guthrie Green at 10 ," Tulsa People Magazine ), the expanded Grand Park in Los Angeles (" Take a Tour Around the Civic Center's Huge New Grand Park (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

HealthOnBroadway: El Rio Community Health Center and Tucson Medical Center. HealthOn Tucson is a joint program of the community health program and the city's major medical hospital (" New downtown Tucson health clinic offers a different patient experience ," Arizona Daily Star ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

After all, that's how it's done in Paris (" Why Paris Works ," New York Times Magazine , 1992). I know the argument that because the District of Columbia is the National Capital, park and urban design features should be operated by the federal government as an element of beautification.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Then It Got Them ," Outside Magazine ). I mentioned above that Blog commenter Edward Drozd made a great point about adding to the national parks and open space portfolio to better serve the more populated areas of the East and Midwest (" Defining National Park Service installations in DC as locally or nationally serving, " 2019).

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