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Business Continuity Vs. Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we focus on what that looks like for businesses; how that matches up government emergency management; and then we delve a little bit into emergency management in the military due to our guest’s professional experiences while serving in the US Army.

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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

Controlling public safety is a major concern of governments, and that’s where public safety technology comes in The legitimacy that results from managing a crisis has an instant and lasting impact on public opinion and the daily lives of citizens. This means that public safety is both a risk and an opportunity.

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Stories of service: The impact of federal employees on the West Coast

Partnership for Public Service

At the heart of the public sector are local federal workers, the vast majority of whom work outside the Washington, D.C., These career civil servants include public affairs specialists, engineers, researchers and many more who shape the standard of living at the local level.

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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

They have impressive government and industry experience and will cover topics such as IT; diversity, equity and inclusion; workforce management; process improvement; leadership; career building; and customer experience, to name just a few. His areas of expertise include digital strategy and transformation, acquisition, and program management.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

This episode interviews David Rothstein, Senior Principal, CFE Fund and Matt Hanke, Retail Strategies Manager, VP from Northwest Bank as they share the impact and promise of the Bank On program where they are working to bring the unbanked and the underbanked into the financial mainsteam. . Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund: [link].

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. For example, it ranks 170th out of 180 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp.