Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Field Chief Technology Officer Wade Ellery discusses identity sprawl, IAM, and how organisations can overcome identity sprawl issues and combat budget restraints. It’s also creating complexity in terms of effectively provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts when an employee joins, changes departments, or leaves the company.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

This skill is valued in many positions, especially those that involve data analysis, quality control, or project management. Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. Financial Literacy: Grant writers often work on budget development and financial projections.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

That’s why thinking about the key types of tools to help you with your grant management work is so important. Managing multiple grant applications at once can be challenging for even seasoned nonprofit professionals. Grant Management Software. Accounting Tools. Internal Communication Tools . Custom workflow options.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

What’s missing from current methods of managing flood risk? To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. Solutions lie in community involvement The solutions to managing flooding effectively come in two aspects—human and technical.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.invokedBy NOT EXISTS) && ($.eventType

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

LeMaster continues: “If someone clicks on the link, they may be directed to a phishing site and asked to provide credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens, or surveillance-ware could be installed on their device, allowing attackers to access their government accounts or monitor device activity.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

They spend money on fundraising and overhead activities to secure individual donations, increase marketing, host fundraising events, and submit and manage grants. Yet these same foundations require hoop after hoop for nonprofits to jump through during the grant management process. An accounting of every penny is necessary.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

A recent Government Accountability Office report highlights both the continuing benefits of telework and the challenges that agencies face, plus best practices that they should follow as they continue to adapt how they operate. The Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to bring employees back to the office post-pandemic in…

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This need aligns with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-24-10, which mandates the appointment of Chief AI Officers, the formation of agency AI governance boards, the development of compliance plans, and the creation of AI use case inventory. Specific sectors have additional regulatory requirements.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 20, 2024

Outlook (Mail and Calendar): Manage citizen communications and interagency meetings efficiently. Copilot in Outlook streamlines email and calendar management by drafting responses, summarizing email threads, and suggesting optimal meeting times. Resource Allocation: Optimize budget planning and resource distribution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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AccessE11

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of urban management, the advent of data-driven decision-making stands as a revolutionary tool for municipalities. This shift not only enhances the accuracy of your choices but also makes the decision-making process more transparent and accountable. One of the primary obstacles is the scarcity of resources.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2024

This article, " ‘The EPA needs to humble itself’: why some US non-profits are turning down agency funds ," in the Guardian makes a good point that government grants come with a variety of requirements that often exceed the capacity of nonprofits to manage and comply with. That's the kind of assistance that often needs to be provided.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. Imagine your accounts team gets hacked and, after scanning through their previously sent emails, the hackers know how to word an email to convince you it is really them. trillion for the global economy by 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. They explained to the officers that HOPICS set them up with an account that saved all of their identifying documents when they first entered the shelter.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Working capital management is a managerial strategy that monitors and uses current assets (e.g., cash, accounts receivable, and inventory) and current liabilities (e.g., accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. By Michelle Lofton and Mikhail Ivonchyk.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2024

Agencies’ push to enhance the customer experience has reached a critical juncture, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The Office of Management and Budget has been at the forefront of this effort by setting CX goals, identifying leaders and dedicating resources to staffing and technology improvements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The common reasons customers may need to invoke Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in a standard account from an AWS GovCloud (US) account (or vice versa) include: cross-domain applications, feature parity, and if the AWS service doesn’t exist in AWS GovCloud (US). Key/value secret in Secrets Manager. Why AWS GovCloud (US)?

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 17, 2024

Strategic foresight has been used across large corporations and different governments to support strategic planning, manage emerging risks and remain competitive. 26, 2024, that explored the potential benefits and use cases of strategic foresight as a risk management tool within federal enterprise risk management (ERM) programs.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Note from Diane: You know how passionate our team is about thinking about your grant management work (your post-award work) to help strengthen your grant applications (your pre-award) work. Thats why were thrilled to bring these tactical tips to you from Jitasa to help broaden your understanding of grant management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. Enabling agencies to build and strengthen AI governance Robust governance is the foundation upon which responsible AI initiatives must be built.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. But it is also a management failure of local government. Good luck with that. historic architecture 2.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The further behind your technology is, the more financially difficult modernization becomes because agencies must anticipate their budgets years in advance — often before the tools they need fully exist, Kowalski said. “Not only are you not benefiting from what these tools can provide, … you also can’t contribute anything,” she added.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 22, 2023

Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series. Integrate the Statement of Assurance process with risk management. Align with the agency’s larger strategy.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 9, 2023

Grant applications can be a complicated and lengthy process, and it can be challenging to manage them while keeping track of clients’ schedules. In this post, we will discuss how to manage your grant application schedule with clients using efficient processes and workflows.

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Programming for Success with Chris Bass From developing program ideas, evaluating success, and managing teams, there’s so much to know when it comes to recreation programming. Have you ever experienced: a limited budget? But like I said, I serve as Department manager here, and that title is a little misleading. Chris: Yeah.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

My buddy Lisa works for Westcare, which offers programs across the continuum of health and human services, programs that treat substance use, manage mental health disorders, and help those dealing with HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and homelessness. We match the right funding programs to our organization’s programming. No stress there.)

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Widely used within the private sector, enterprise risk management, or ERM, is today used by federal agencies to address a broad range of risks across their organizations. Strategies for success with enterprise risk management. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach. Build strong relationships with your inspector general. “At

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 14, 2023

However, internal actors account for nearly a third (30%) of breaches, and collaboration between external parties and government employees or partners accounts for 16% of data breaches. Finally, the government has a significant supply chain risk management challenge. Yet delivering assurance will not be easy.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Partnership for Public Service and Guidehouse held an event on October 26 to release a new report, Building a Data Foundation: The Role of Data and Evidence in Advancing the President’s Management Agenda. IT and cybersecurity technology that allows for data management and service delivery. Focusing on implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to current best practices , between 5-7 percent of a company’s IT budget should be spent on cybersecurity. percent of their IT budgets in 2022. To achieve data protection, Fachklinikum Mainschleife used AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for encryption. In Germany, hospitals only invested about 2.2

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 27, 2023

Local governments in North Carolina are required to engage citizens in their budget process by following the guidelines set forth by the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act. In addition to these legal requirements, many local governments in North Carolina have taken further steps to engage citizens in the budget process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

gives agencies flexibility in implementing requirements defined in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum (M) 19-26 so they can adapt to the evolving IT landscape that includes cloud services, mobile devices, and remote work. requirements around log management and data collection. log management compliance efforts.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Health care and care for dependents take more out of some household budgets than shelter. According to the Office of Personnel Management, 29% of the U.S. According to the Office of Personnel Management, 29% of the U.S. Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) allow them to set aside money to pay for care in pre-tax dollars.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. Successful EdTechs balance innovation (for example, new features or technology, like generative artificial intelligence (AI) ) with managing costs – both of product development and of operating costs for customer environments.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As grant professionals, we require the knowledge and insight of subject matter experts, accountants, budget experts, GIS map makers, marketing gurus, program directors, board members, community leaders, and others to create, submit, and manage successful grant programs. But that does not mean I work in a vacuum.

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt.

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