AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. In the UK, 44 local government bodies—called councils—use an open approach to share expertise and pool resources to transform their web publishing platforms using LocalGov Drupal.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Editor’s note: The Reforestation Hubs initiative is offering pro-bono technical support to a select group of local governments and NGO partners in the United States. Interested cities and NGOs can submit a letter of interest by October 30, 2020 here. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Some state and local governments never established demilitarized zone networks because they didn’t consider home offices a threat when they shifted to remote work after the COVID-19 outbreak, security experts say. What is a DMZ network?

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

billion in 2020, according to Emergen Research. Mobile printers — paired with flexible, simultaneous Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity — are frequently used in local government, particularly in public safety, law enforcement and voting.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains:?the the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times of crisis, such as a pandemic.

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2022

While the digitization of government services and operations has helped enhance the constituent experience, it has also increased the cyber threat surface for governments of all sizes. In 2020, 79 ransomware attacks hit government organizations, amounting to nearly $19 billion in downtime and recovery costs 1.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Criminals took advantage of digital transformation and the move to remote work during the pandemic to launch attacks on all types of organizations, including state and local governments. In 2021, 66 percent of organizations were hit by a ransomware attack, up from 37 percent in 2020,” according to Sophos.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A number of local governments have been the target of cybersecurity attacks in recent years. In 2020, for instance, 45 percent of ransomware attacks centered on municipalities, according to Barracuda Networks research.

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GovPilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2020 very quickly familiarized citizens with new everyday health expectations that they now often do try to live by. However, the general public still does not always know how to proceed with the best health and safety practices; this uncertainty leads people to look to government officials for answers.

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The City Fix

MAY 8, 2024

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2020, the City of Canton, Ohio set out to build a better, safer, and more connected community. The city worked with government technology (GovTech) company Wi-Fiber, a network infrastructure provider using AWS Direct Connect from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn more about Wi-Fiber.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In a letter to the Census Bureau, the National League of Cities detailed common hurdles local governments faced during the 2020 census — and suggestions for improvements.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

More Data on Tap Over the past year, Batemans team has been digging deeper into data from the 2020 Decennial Census, with a focus on race and ethnicity. This article appeared in our guide, “ Going Places: Priorities for State and Local Tech.” So, were getting more and more nuanced in our language-crafting.

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The City Fix

MAY 18, 2022

After remaining undaunted in their pursuit of renewables in 2020, U.S. As the latest IPCC report notes, cities will play a critical role in climate action over the next decade, and many challenges and opportunities for generating more clean electricity lie ahead. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A major federal update of the infrastructure supporting that domain should encourage more state and local government organizations to do so, and will improve security for those already using it, experts say. The.gov domain is the means by which…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

From July 23–24 in Austin, Texas, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders brought together hundreds of technologists, innovators, and learners to discover how technology, paired with human ingenuity, can change the world. Learn more about the 2024 AWS Champions.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 28, 2023

Federal assistance is a significant source of funding for state and local governments in the U.S., Federal grants accounted for 66 percent of state/local public welfare spending in 2020, up from 55 percent in 1977. especially for programs and services that directly support residents.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

MissionSquare Research Institute started surveying state and local government employees in May 2020 about the job, financial, and personal […] Source. While that anxiety began as an outgrowth of the pandemic and then the Great Resignation, it has persisted and continues to evolve.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Hybrid work—a concept most senior leaders had never considered before 2020—is now becoming standard practice for several state and local government agencies across the nation.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Housing Studies 34, no.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For state and local governments, Microsoft is poised to become one of the major suppliers of artificial intelligence solutions. Collins, who served as state CIO of Delaware from 2014 to 2020, shared AI insights specific to government agencies. STATETECH…

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 31, 2023

(behind Florida & Texas) – largely due to international migration rebounding a couple years after COVID shut it down in 2020-2021. link] Other CED Items: NYT reports on how local governments are reconsidering parking requirements; there are currently 7 spaces available for every car in the U.S.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Air quality, emissions, congestion, and road safety targets are now of integral importance to local governments, communities and the next generation. Furthermore, when it comes to the next generation of cyclists, a survey by Sustrans found that only 2% of children cycled to school, with 10% wanting to.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Terry Tieman, Town Manager of Fenwick Island, speaks to Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about how she became a town manager, unique issues towns are facing as a result of COVID-19, and her experience as a woman in leadership positions in local government.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020. This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020. To view the most up-to-date flood maps in Delaware, visit [link] For flood information from FEMA, visit [link] Learn more about IPA at ipa.udel.edu. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Our series about the future of state and local government jobs , is being published this week by Route Fifty. When asked if their states had passed legislation addressing citizen data privacy, 37 percent said yes in 2022 compared with 29 percent in 2020.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. Discover how government agencies across the country use AWS to better serve constituents at the AWS Cloud for Health and Human Services hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. StateRAMP assumes that state and local government data will likely be at the Moderate impact level. What is StateRAMP?

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It incorporates a mature end-to-end workflow for document processing and management to speed implementation and reduce costs for federal, state, and local governments and academic institutions. Introducing document intake accelerator Document intake accelerator is an open-sourced, pre-packaged and customizable solution.

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Death and Taxes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For instance, according to a study from the Urban Affairs Review , exporting tax burdens impacts residents’ levels of support for local governments (Martin, Lopez, and Olsen 2019). Since a voter referendum is required to levy local sales taxes, it is important for practitioners to consider who bears tax burdens. and Jeremy G.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

For state and local government leaders, technology modernization projects are often viewed as monumental undertakings characterized by complexity and uncertainty. In late 2020, work began with industry partners on the planning, business process reengineering and strategy design to modernize Wisconsin’s child support system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. “By These two pilot programs led to creating a foundational data governance framework, established in January 2020, just in time for COVID.” In Virginia, this data sharing was instituted by Carlos Rivero.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For the past two and a half years, times have not been good for state and local governments or the millions of the people they are -- or, once were -- responsible for serving. Since early 2020, , more than a million people in the U.S. Gordon, lead coordinator of the Continuity of Supply Initiative (CoSI).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2020 alone, AWS investment in the construction and operation of data centers contributed $1.3 In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an important and growing presence, AWS is investing significantly in supporting skills and education programs to promote a thriving workforce.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Van Ryzin, Behavioral Public Performance: How people make sense of government metrics , Cambridge University Press (2020) The U.S. Government Accountability Offices Managing for Results in Government Jakob Majlund Holm, Successful Problem Solvers? Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 23, 2023

How many times have you read articles that refer to “cities and states,’ as though those two entities cover the waterfront for the broader term “local government”? Yet when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a playbook to guide vaccination distribution in October of 2020, counties barely received a mention.

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