Paul Cairney

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This post first appeared on the UK Public Policy Design blog. See also: 5 images of the policy process and more discussion of the turtle image.

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GCN

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A pilot program in Oregon’s Willamette Valley will test how well artificial intelligence-enabled sensors can identify and characterize wildfires, which will help with responder resource allocation and boost community resilience.

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Public Safety 81

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The relatively stable auto-financing market appears poised for change as strong demand draws the attention of a broad range of attackers.

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Next City

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel replacement project would run through a Black community that had already been divided by a highway. Here’s how the city carried out an effective public engagement process.

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Summer Camp Programming

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

SHOW NOTES The guys will be at the ACA conference in Orlando next week. They talk about the sessions they may attend, their session (and possible giveaways), and what they’ll be doing for fun around Orlando. HOSTS CURT JACKSON CHRIS KALLAL The post SCP 182: The ACA National Conference is Next Week! appeared first on Summer Camp Programming.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Indirect ways to move people and organizations.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Francesca Castro has been visiting libraries for as long as she can remember. “My mother took me to children’s programs at the public library when I was very young,” recalled Francesca. “Then, in elementary and middle school, I begged my parents for cash to spend at the annual book fair.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With 6.3% of the population currently suffering, Dr Deborah Lee, Dr Fox Online Pharmacy, explores and examines concerns around smartphone addiction (SMA) With 3.8 billion people worldwide currently using a smartphone, it seems our mobile phones have become integral to modern life. Statistics have shown that we send 427% more messages than 10 years ago, and 278% more texts.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More than just the FEMA teams identified in an earlier post.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Commercial aviation faces its most uncertain future in decades. COVID-depressed demand is now resurging, but there are many uncertainties and challenges for operators and manufacturers to manage.

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Breckenridge’s short-term rental boom—over 4,200 licenses —put intense pressure on the town’s small staff and manual processes. Facing compliance and efficiency challenges, the town teamed up with GovOS to automate its STR licensing. The new system: Cut admin time Reduced errors Improved the experience for property owners and town staff Discover the full impact of automation on Breckenridge’s STR management—download the case study.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In recent years, ransomware attacks have become a growing threat to city, state and local government agencies and organizations. Attackers have made headlines for major disruptions in states across the country, including Florida, Georgia, Maryland and Texas. These crippling attacks are not new, however, and as the attack surface continues to expand, bad actors are getting smarter, quicker and more sophisticated.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On February 14, the U.S. Department of Treasury notified all State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds grantees that the contact center many small and rural cities, towns and villages rely on for guidance will re-open on February 21, 2023. The contact center previously shut down in October 2022.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The environment we live in.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In today’s interconnected business environment, companies won’t be able to solve problems effectively without encouraging “contributory dissent”—a healthy approach to gathering diverse perspectives that should be taught to team members, modeled by leaders, and supported by culture.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In North Dakota, CISO Michael Gregg is running a security operations center that benefits his state and local government agency partners in several ways. Agencies often have trouble hiring qualified cybersecurity staff, Gregg says. By manning a highly capable security operations center, Gregg relieves his North Dakota peers of that challenge. The centralized North Dakota SOC also provides highly effective managed services for state and local agencies.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If you listen to the Fundraising HayDay podcast or know me some other way, you will quickly learn that I am an EXTRA extrovert. People are my passion, my jam, my lifeblood. As far as I am concerned, friends and quality relationships make the world go round. Trust me, if we know each other, we are probably friends. If we aren’t yet, just give it time.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Short answer: It was an antenna.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Companies that want to scale quickly must cultivate deep market knowledge and a culture that embraces learning through failure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) relies on modern military applications that are data-heavy and depend on low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field. Accessing, processing, and sharing data at the tactical edge has become increasingly essential to mission success – whether the mission is a large-scale military operation, crisis response effort, or coordinating the transportation of critical supplies and troops.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two years ago, Missouri State House Representative Kevin Windham began asking questions to try to understand why there were so many vacant and abandoned properties in the communities he represented in suburban St. Louis County, Missouri. Who owned these properties? Why were they concentrated in majority Black neighborhoods? Why didn’t someone just buy them and fix them up?

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

New thinking on a challenging topic.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Specialist players are disrupting payments and challenging banks to find a new playbook.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Chattanooga, Tenn. plans to stand up 86 new smart intersections downtown between 2023 and 2024 to create the largest Internet of Things network of its kind and pave the way for electric vehicles. Together, the “living laboratory” of intersections, equipped with light detection and ranging sensors leveraging 3D-perception software, will be able to detect, track, and predict vehicle and pedestrian movements without invading privacy.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement that will expand telework and remote work options in an effort to find new ways to achieve efficiency and work-life balance. AFGE says that the agreement came as a result of lessons learned from lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This is a question people are asking.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With metals demand ramping up rapidly in the face of the energy transition, new processing technologies can help meet the supply shortfall from existing operations.

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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.

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GCN

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cloud, inexpensive sensors and low-powered wide-area networks are giving smaller cities a way to build real solutions for both staff and residents.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Odds are, if you are impacted by the C ybersecurity Maturity Model Certification ( CMMC) mandates, you already know it. Odds are, if you are reading this post, you are doing research because you are impacted by the mandates. If you are impacted by the mandates, this post is for you. This post is to give you ideas that [we hope] help you on your compliance journey.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Search engine wars are only beginning

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Petrochemicals players that seek out value-creating opportunities can be positioned for success.

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PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.

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