Next City
MARCH 20, 2024
Op-ed: Right-to-repair legislation is crucial to systemic change. But every item salvaged through America’s growing patchwork of local repair movements is its own victory.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 20, 2024
With digitization, computing, and advanced technologies, the “attack surface” is now the sum of systems and capabilities that can be exploited by cyberattackers.
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MARCH 20, 2024
Two years into the $1 billion program, state and local governments are better prepared for cyber attacks. But funding remains an obstacle as under-resourced cybersecurity budgets struggle to keep up with mounting threats.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 20, 2024
Global economic uncertainty elevated but consumers upbeat; China faces deflation, real estate problems, and FDI decline; EU growth stagnant; high US interest rates affecting households and companies.
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MARCH 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence holds promise for creating budget-saving efficiencies, aiding in audits and helping with compliance. But the emerging technology also poses challenges that could affect spending.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 20, 2024
Biopharma leaders are adjusting their commercial focus and transforming their enabling capabilities and operating models to benefit their patients, companies, and the healthcare ecosystem.
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AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 20, 2024
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant cycle. The AWS IMAGINE Grant is a public grant opportunity open to registered nonprofit organizations and nonprofit healthcare providers who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions. Now in its seventh year, the AWS IMAGINE Grant is expanding beyond the U.S. and U.K. to also seek proposals from eligible organizations based in Ireland.
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MARCH 20, 2024
COMMENTARY | Microcredentials give employees a way to verify their competencies while providing government and industry with another approach for finding skilled workers.
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 20, 2024
Scientists have developed artificial intelligence to perform new tasks based on verbal or written instructions The development by researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) holds promise for advancing robotics and natural language processing technologies. The study’s findings have been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. AI controlling other AI models Performing an unknown task without prior training and then articulating instructions for others to reproduce is unique to hum
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 20, 2024
World leaders are confronting the challenge of turning ambitious climate commitments into action. They are naturally focused on the essential objective of reducing global emissions quickly. However, the vital work of ensuring a successful net-zero transition will require us to take into account three additional objectives: affordability, reliability, and industrial competitiveness, write Mekala Krishnan Daniel Pacthod, and Sven Smit in Fortune.
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State Tech Magazine
MARCH 20, 2024
For frontline workers serving communities across America, the flow of information is crucial for running efficient operations that can expand and contract as demands dictate. That means being able to integrate data and real-time communications efficiently while staying resilient under even the most challenging circumstances. Modern voice platforms play an important role in this convergence of technology for first responders, acting as the reliable linchpin for all streams of information.
FedTech Magazine
MARCH 20, 2024
The General Services Administration announced plans to upgrade security and infrastructure for its eRulemaking Program, Regulations.gov, which encourages the public to review and comment on proposed regulatory and nonregulatory actions across the federal government. GSA's plans, revealed earlier this year as part of its wider Technology Modernization Fund investments, will address near-term security vulnerabilities as well as any urgent issues that could risk the system's stability.
Careers in Government
MARCH 20, 2024
Elevate your career with Government Economics Jobs. Shape policies and strategies for economic impact in public service. Explore opportunities now. The post Economic Insights: Careers in Government Economics Jobs appeared first on Careers in Government.
Death and Taxes
MARCH 20, 2024
The UNC School of Government is like no other school, organization, or institution in the country. Our unique mission and values make us the single best source of support for North Carolinians seeking to understand and improve their government. Every year our faculty offers more than 200 courses and webinars, responds to thousands of phone calls and emails on routine and urgent matters, and publishes approximately 50 books, manuals, articles, and reports—all to support our state’s cities, counti
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
21 years ago, I read Steve Belmont's Cities in Full. It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival. The first chapter is particularly important in that it puts numbers to the concepts laid out in Death and Life of American Cities. Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ).
A Library Writer's Blog
MARCH 20, 2024
Call for Papers - Fresh Perspectives Column, Kentucky Libraries Library school students (any school), library staff, and new or non-published librarians: Do you have a library school paper you are particularly proud of? Do you have an idea for a paper, but you would like some suggestions on how to make it ready for submission? Are you new to the field and would like to begin publishing?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
GGW has a piece, " CVS stores that should have apartments above them, ranked." This store is in Baltimore but the same point pertains. The second story is fake. That's a common tactic for chain stores who get complaints that the building isn't tall enough, that it could be mixed use. I wrote about this 10 years ago (" Beyond matter of right: incentivizing preferred types of development ").
Microsoft Public Sector
MARCH 20, 2024
Thanks @DanielBaloch for your affirmation and sharing how the blog was insightful. Will look to do more in the near future! Also, I appreciate calling out the confusing language @Dean Gross - I'll look to address this in a future edit. The sentence should be shortened/simplified to state " Security Copilot can aid users within the Microsoft Intune admin center to create endpoint management policies (including mobile devices).".
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Government agencies that rely on tax revenue to fund critical services and infrastructure are finding it more urgent than ever to bridge the gap between under-reported tax revenue and taxpayers’ understanding of the processes. This is especially true as things like short-term rentals (STRs) have grown in popularity and become new sources of income for residents.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Matt Elliott writes weekly in the Toronto Star about city urbanism issues. The current column, " Toronto parking fines may shortly skyrocket. This is why we should embrace the cost ," is about how the city is considering significantly increasing the fines for parking illegally, which he supports. He goes on to suggest a bunch of different ways to use the space: But taking the amount even higher is justified too, because we’re not just talking about parking here.
A Library Writer's Blog
MARCH 20, 2024
The NASIG Program Planning Committee invites proposals for the Great Ideas Showcase and the Snapshots Session for the 39th Annual Conference, to be held June 3-7, 2024 in Spokane, Washington. We are currently seeking in-person presentations. The NASIG Conference presenters and attendees will be expected to follow hotel Covid safety protocols. The Snapshots Sessions will be held on Tuesday June 4, 2024 4 - 5:30 PM and the Great Ideas Showcase will be held on Wednesday June 5.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world.
Policy & Politics Journal blog
MARCH 20, 2024
by Paloma Caravantes and Emanuela Lombardo Democratic innovations in institutional politics are processes or institutions aimed at improving the quality of democracy beyond electoral politics.
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GCN
MARCH 20, 2024
The Biden administration is still pushing for a major shift to electric vehicles by 2032, but many Republicans remain skeptical.
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