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What is successful policy experimentation?

Policy & Politics Journal blog

By Kate Mattocks Governments around the world undertake policy experiments temporary, often micro-level interventions to try new things and learn what works. But what makes an experiment successful?

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NASCIO 2025

State Tech Magazine

Join StateTech as we cover NASCIO Midyear 2025 from April 28-May 1.

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The missing data link: Five practical lessons to scale your data products

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

As companies increasingly rely on data to innovate and grow, ineffective (or nonexistent) data product practices have become a top strategic issue.

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How to Fund Infrastructure to Manage PFAS: Spokane, WA Offers Path Forward

NLC (National League of Cities)

Co-authored by Ken Sansone, Senior Partner, SL Environmental Law Group and Kyla Tengdin, Education & Outreach, SL Environmental Law Group Does this sound familiar?

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A Look Inside the Minds of Government’s Most Innovative Leaders

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.

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How American business can prosper in the new geopolitical era

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

In a shifting world order, US companies continued success will hinge on an understanding of policymakers intentions.

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How Gender Equity Can Boost Urban Climate Resilience

The City Fix

The evidence is clear: the climate crisis is not gender neutral. Climate change is a threat multiplier. As instability intensifies, women are increasingly subject to conflict and its externalities, including gender-based violence and persecution. And because women are disproportionately represented.

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CA.gov/LAFires Helps Fire Victims During Chaos and Beyond

California Department of Technology

Continue reading CA.gov/LAFires Helps Fire Victims During Chaos and Beyond at Newsroom.

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Government Security Ops Detect Threats With AI Solutions

State Tech Magazine

When New Jerseys cybersecurity system identifies a possible email threat, a notification is sent to the security operations center team, and the corresponding account may be disabled automatically. The team can then review the associated data to confirm the threat. Our systems kick off a bunch of processes to pull information together, says Michael Geraghty, CISO and director of the New Jersey Cybersecurity Communications Integration Cell.

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Cloud Innovation Center launch at the University of Pittsburgh

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a landmark partnership that promises to transform both health sciences research and athletics, the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the establishment of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by AWS. As the first CIC on the east coast and the first to have a specialized focus on health and sports analytics, this initiative represents a significant milestone in the application of cloud

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Google Public Sector and Palantir collaborate to bring Google Cloud to FedStart

Google Public Sector

At Google Public Sector, we are committed to helping our customers execute their missions. Now, we're expanding this commitment by adding support for Palantir's FedStart platform, so public sector customers can utilize software and applications on Google Clouds accredited infrastructure through the Palantir FedStart platform. Palantir FedStart helps U.S. government agencies achieve compliance, scale operations, and access innovative mission-critical solutions from leading independent software ve

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Local Government Tax Guide: 6 Benefits Businesses Will Buy Into for Compliance

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.

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Optimize Your Library’s Reach: Social Media Timing Revealed (With a Caveat!)

Super Library Marketing

Watch this video now #LibraryMarketingShow, episode 286 A new study tells us the best time to post to each social media platform. Or does it?? I will share the results and a warning about not taking this advice too seriously in this episode of The Library Marketing Show. Plus, we’ll give kudos to a library that went the extra mile to welcome people to their newly renovated branch.

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How Opportunity Zones 2.0 Can Leverage Existing Vacant Property Inventories

Center for Community Progress

One of the major roles of the National Land Bank Network is to amplify the voice of land banks in securing federal policy changes that better equip your communities to address property vacancy, abandonment, and deterioration. What to know: Signs are pointing to the upcoming reauthorization of the Opportunity Zone (OZ) tax incentive program. The OZ program was created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and is set to expire in 2026 without Congressional action.

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San Diego Book(store) Crawl: Independent Bookstore Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. While many bookstores organize individual events, bookstores in San Diego are working together to offer a book crawl, involving multiple stores in the event in a manner that builds customer bases for all the stores (" San Diego Book Crawl returns for 8th year with more locations ," San Diego Union-Tribune ). 14 stores are participating.

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Seven lessons learned: Driving AWS Cloud adoption in research at Saint Louis University

AWS Public Sector Blog

Sometimes you need to pause and reflect to appreciate progress. For Shruthi Murthy, assistant director of the Research Computing Group (RCG) at Saint Louis University (SLU) , a single phone call in Fall 2019 sparked what would become a comprehensive cloud transformation for the universitys research infrastructure. What began as a request to run a proof-of-concept notebook in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a research project within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at SLU has ev

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Municipal Maintenance Guide: Inspections

Get this municipal maintenance guide that provides municipalities with a detailed and structured approach to maintaining city infrastructure. This guide outlines systematic inspection procedures and best practices, ensuring the safety, longevity, and operational efficiency of municipal assets. From roadways and bridges to public buildings and utilities, the guide covers all aspects of municipal maintenance.

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Herbert Gans, community sociologist

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

After a BA and MS in sociology from University of Chicago, Gans worked as an urban planner for the Chicago Housing Authority and a federal agency focused on housing before the creation of HUD. He then received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and entering academia at the University of Pennsylvania before settling at Columbia University and later served as president of the American Sociology Association. -- " Herbert J.

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