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Testimony of NYU Furman Center Senior Fellow Mark Willis Before the Rent Guidelines Board

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

With the importance of preserving the city’s existing affordable housing stock, Willis outlined the challenge facing the RGB when looking to settle on annual increases due to a conflict between two legislative mandates that can be difficult to reconcile in the face of inflation. The first, maintaining affordability (e.g.,

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Modernizing government IT: 4 approaches to overcome legacy exit challenges

AWS Public Sector Blog

This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. Factors that shape legacy IT Whether in the private or public sector, legacy modernization is challenging for organizations that have a long operating history reliant on in-house systems and applications.

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National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

Mechanisms to help businesses and organisations identify and managed risks for the design and implementation of AI solutions are being introduced globally, including a variety of international standards ( ISO 42001 , ISO 23894 , and NIST RMF ), legislation ( EU AI Act ), and localised standards and frameworks such as the NSW AI Assurance Framework.

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How healthcare organizations can fulfill compliance standards with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

They can result in the cancellation of operations or examinations. To minimize the risk of dangerous IT-related interruptions to operations, the European Union (EU) introduced new cybersecurity legislation NIS 2 Directive in 2023. First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment.

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European Union’s new AI law: What programmers need to know

Open Access Government - Technology News

The AI Act primarily targets high-risk AI systems like algorithmic credit rating tools and medical software, imposing stringent requirements to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability. Human oversight: Facilitating mechanisms for human supervision to detect and rectify errors during AI deployment.

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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The evolution of fraud and the importance of continuous professional development and learning

Open Access Government - Technology News

Fraudsters are more organised, operating like businesses with specialists in hacking, social engineering, and data theft. Here are some of the key areas where continuous professional development makes all the difference: Keeping up with changes in legislation: Fraud legislation and regulations evolve to meet new threats.