Next City

JUNE 24, 2024

Four years in, the initiative has encouraged numerous residents to share their opinions on the city’s spending.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

Citizens and businesses throughout the United States don’t necessarily think of interactions with their local government as being overly efficient or offering a world-class user experience. However, those expectations are changing post-pandemic with the rapid advancement of technology and the relentless focus on user experiences from some of the most innovative companies in the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. They create an enabling culture for innovation and promote transparency and trust in digitized services.

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Government Public Sector Development Economic Development 195

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 24, 2024

March Capital’s Wes Nichols talks about innovating on the front lines of technological change.

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Successful partnerships start with knowing what public sector leaders care about. This report spotlights global innovators shaping the future of public service by tackling real-world challenges across AI, digital identity, citizen experience, and data strategy. Their work reveals the priorities, pain points, and investment areas that are driving transformation.

Public Service

FedTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

Civilian agencies teaming up with defense agencies on IT modernization efforts and sharing systems to improve efficiency are experiencing compliance challenges due to the latter’s higher-level security framework. As a result, civilian agencies may struggle to support the necessary security protocols and data encryption. Agencies may also encounter process disruptions; if the civilian-side workflows don’t align with those on the defense side, interoperability can be difficult to achieve.

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Communications Security 114

GCN

JUNE 24, 2024

COMMENTARY | Cities and states can use the federal funds to evaluate the effectiveness of new programs.

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Management 112

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 24, 2024

Our June obituaries include former CEOs of Ford and Boeing, a mathematician-turned-trader who put quants on the map, and a Caribbean-born titan of francophone literature.

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GCN

JUNE 24, 2024

The term is used in policy after policy. But with no standard definition, networks are often left unprotected and open to lawsuits. That is changing.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 24, 2024

Successful organizations move a transformation from ambition to action. Here’s what it takes.

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Management 105

NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 24, 2024

Older adults are making waves in small business, whether beginning their entrepreneurial career post-retirement or as part of the indomitable silver tsunami of the Baby Boomer generation. This savvy but oft-overlooked group has served as the backbone of the U.S. economy, employing millions while creating opportunities for wealth generation and business acquisition.

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In a survey of U.S. business owners, more than 64% indicated their local government’s online tax portal needs improvement. It’s clear that while business owners want to work with their local government to stay in compliance, many online tax systems do not enable them to do so effectively.

Local Government

GCN

JUNE 24, 2024

The decision keeps intact a nearly 30-year-old federal law as well as state laws in 46 states and Washington, D.C.

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Laws Management 77

The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2024

India is the seventh most climate-vulnerable country in the world, with nine of its states among the top 50 most vulnerable regions globally. The country’s cities are at the forefront of the climate crisis with more than 80% of the urban population living in.

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Urban Planning Housing Transportation Education 75

Barrett & Greene

JUNE 24, 2024

We get a great deal of information from the Internet for our work, and there’s little question that the easy access to tons of reports, studies, surveys, legislation, audits, budgets, meeting minutes, essays, graphs, etc., has revolutionized research and reporting on all fronts, not just state and local government. But, despite the benefits that online information can bring to researchers, reporters, academics and practitioners, there are a multitude of flaws in this seemingly endless source o

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Government Legislation Local Government Budgeting 59

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 24, 2024

Greetings, fellow visionaries and changemakers! As I reflect on my ninth year with Grant Writing Made Easy, I’m filled with gratitude and excitement for the journey we’ve undertaken and the path ahead. This year has been a testament to our commitment to innovation, embracing new technologies, and setting a visionary course for the future.

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Public Safety

GovLoop

JUNE 24, 2024

There’s no easy way to explain how quantum computing works without getting deep into the kind of math that only quantum physicists can understand. But here is a brief overview that draws on numerous efforts to make quantum computing accessible to the rest of us. Click on the hyperlinks for a deeper dive. Classical vs. Quantum Computing As many of us have learned along the way, a computer runs on binary code: It converts information into ones and zeros, making it incredibly efficient at running c

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Communications 52

GovPilot

JUNE 24, 2024

Clark, NJ expands their partnership with the government management software provider to streamline operations and government services in the municipality.

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Operations Management Government Press Release 52

GCN

JUNE 24, 2024

Three months into the U.S. bird flu outbreak, only 45 people have been tested. Laboratories that are the foundation of diagnostic testing have yet to get approval to detect the bird flu virus. They say their path forward has been slowed by miscommunication and uncertainty from the CDC and FDA.

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Management 45

Grants4Good

JUNE 24, 2024

Here is a situation I’ve seen over and over again in the decades I’ve been working with nonprofit organizations. Maybe you’ve experienced this yourself? The Scene A very skilled, experienced, enthusiastic person accepts a fundraising position at a nonprofit. The passion is there. The mission is solid. The database of donors is…nonexistent!

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Sustainability

AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance and find applications across various domains, the responsible development and use of AI systems has become a top priority for the US government. The 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14110) aims to promote the responsible use of AI while mitigating potential risks and ensuring the protection of civil rights and liberties.

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Government Public Sector Security Translation 200

GCN

JUNE 24, 2024

The guidance lays out what the Texas Medical Board will consider when investigating allegations of illegal abortions.

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Management 77

AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) wants to build and modernize a global weather framework with WMO Information Systems (WIS) 2.0 to enable and democratize unified access to critical, up-to-date weather data across the world. Currently, lack of observations, easy access to data, computing power, human and capital resources, capacity, and budget hinders accurate and timely forecasts—particularly in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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