GCN

JUNE 3, 2024

The MBTA is luring riders back with more frequent service and more trains on the nights and weekends.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Introduction Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that provides various capabilities, including Jupyter Notebook instances. While RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for R, is available as a managed service in Amazon Web Services (AWS) commercial Regions , it’s currently not offered in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

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Management Accountability Development Public Sector 119

State Tech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2024

Extraordinary disruptions are coming to public and private sector jobs in the near future. Local government CIOs must prepare for the sweeping change to be brought by generative artificial intelligence. Any organization facing such upheaval may embrace sound change management practices and prepare accordingly with a 30/60/90 plan to achieve goals to navigate this disruption.

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Local Government Government Leadership Development 115

GCN

JUNE 3, 2024

The closely watched experiment is coming to an end. New Orleans Public Schools will now act both as a charter school authorizer and an old-fashioned school district.

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Management 111

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Public Safety

FedTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2024

Mixed reality headsets and similar systems are tested for resiliency against attacks while in development, but once MR and related technologies are deployed, there’s less effort to test for new threats from malicious actors. Direct attacks on users could flood headsets with information designed to cause motion sickness or disorientation. Or, attacks might clutter displays with virtual objects that cause users to misinterpret critical information and compromise military operations.

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Security Operations Development 101

GCN

JUNE 3, 2024

The Affordable Connectivity Program has officially run out of money. But more than a dozen internet providers have pledged to offer plans at $30 or less through 2024 for low-income households.

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Government 106

GCN

JUNE 3, 2024

Nearly every state this legislative session considered changes in juvenile age limits, detention or education programs.

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Legislation Education Management 74

AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

It should be simple to build digital platforms that offer people reliable, clear ways to access government services such as healthcare, business registration, and welfare payments. Cloud technology makes it possible for every service to be simple, reliable, scalable, adaptable, and secure. Public sector agencies need to be able to access the cloud, and they do so through public procurement processes.

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Government Public Sector Development Public Service 78

NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 3, 2024

By Tammy Dong, Monino Fellow According to HUD’s American Healthy Homes Survey II, 22.3 million housing units in the U.S. have one or more significant lead-based paint hazards. Many unsafe housing units are in disadvantaged neighborhoods where most people rent their homes and may be unable to afford better, safer housing.

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Housing Management 64

Barrett & Greene

JUNE 3, 2024

There are all kinds of variations on the theme of the three big lies that people tell in the normal course of day-to-day life. One of our favorite sets consists of: 1) This is for your own good. 2) It’ll be done by 3:00 3) It must be true; I heard it on the news. In the old days there was another one that was exceedingly popular. It was “The check is in the mail,” but nowadays nobody much sends checks in the mail, so we’d offer a replacement for that one: “The check is being proce

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Local Government Government Legislation Public Sector 59

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Management

NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 3, 2024

Co-authored by Myesha Watkins, Executive Director Cleveland Peacemakers, Inc., and Sonya Pryor-Jones, Chief, Youth and Family Success Office of the Mayor Justin M. Bibb June is Gun Violence Awareness Month and across the country, people will commemorate victims of gun violence and advocate for a safer future for cities, towns and villages.

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GovPilot

JUNE 3, 2024

Local representatives and politicians universally regard democracy as a system that everyone would obviously be thrilled to participate in, finding it hard to fathom why anyone would choose not to engage.

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