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3 Ways to Boost Cybersecurity

GovLoop

Today’s technological landscape looks drastically different than it did as recently as three years ago. The remote work scenario that hastily came together during the pandemic is now the norm, with most agencies offering hybrid work options — a cultural perk but a cybersecurity challenge. “How do you make sure you’re protecting your most coveted resources within your agency?

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Could a tech revolution save the NHS?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Jonathan Patrick, CEO of Consultant Connect, discusses what it will take to save the NHS and the realities behind a tech revolution Consultant Connect’s technology has sparked an NHS “tech revolution” – but is it enough to save the NHS? Jonathan Patrick explains that Consultant Connect creates software that allows an NHS consultant to reduce a hospital waiting list from hundreds of miles away.

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It’s the Climate, Stupid!

Disaster Zone blog

Duh, the weather seems funky.

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With Disaster Tours, Eastern N.C. Locals Share Stories, Propose Flooding Solutions

Next City

Residents and activists Robeson County are drawing attention to those still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence.

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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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Green growth: Unlocking sustainability opportunities for retail banks

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

A recent McKinsey survey shows broad, unmet consumer demand for climate-linked financial products—but will financial institutions provide the education consumers require and the differentiated offerings needed to win this space?

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How two UK customers use AWS to support sustainability goals

AWS Public Sector Blog

Sustainability is now an integral part of business strategy, even as the sustainability landscape is continuously evolving. Technology, data, and innovation play a fundamental role in helping governments, organisations, and society address sustainability-related challenges. At the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Day 2023 held in London , public sector leaders gathered to learn and share how technology can help organisations achieve more with less in solving sustainability challenges.

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Single Sign-On Applications Support Zero Trust for State Agencies

State Tech Magazine

End-user experience was a top priority for the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology when it deployed Okta Workforce Identity Cloud to more than 8,000 employees in early 2020. The Illinois state government faced employee challenges as the world shut down during the pandemic. With nearly everyone working remotely, the department needed a quick and seamless way to secure employee access to critical applications, says CISO Adam Ford.

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What is business transformation?

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Business transformations are designed to boost overall performance through increased revenue, lower operating costs, and better customer satisfaction and workforce productivity.

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AWS skills training programs open doors to tech careers for Virginia workers

AWS Public Sector Blog

Demand for cloud computing continues to grow rapidly, and alongside that, the demand for individuals with the right technical skills to build applications and services in the cloud and also build and maintain the core infrastructure that keeps the internet running smoothly. Plus, the need for future-ready workers with specialized tech training is growing along with it.

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Is It Time to Change Our Hurricane Rating Systems?

Disaster Zone blog

June is the start of a six-month season of potential storms.

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How Breckenridge, CO Ensures Tax & Licensing Compliance

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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How Identity and Access Management Supports a Zero-Trust Environment

State Tech Magazine

Identity and access management bundles two critical components of every organization’s security architecture: authentication, in which a user or computer proves its identity; and authorization, which maps users and groups to organizational assets, defining what level of access is allowed for every identified entity. Although IAM has been around in some form for decades, the recent emphasis on zero-trust security architectures has brought IAM to the forefront for many IT teams.

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Cracking the code on digital talent

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s important to understand what they want (hint: it’s not just compensation).

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How digital twins can enrich emergency response

GCN

With their advanced simulation and predictive analytics capabilities, digital twins can give responders a common operating picture with real-time, integrated information.

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Streamlining with DocAI can yield cost savings and help accelerate missions

Google Public Sector

If there is one thing that the government has a lot of, it’s paper. Every year, the federal government processes more than 106 billion paper forms from 10,000 unique templates. In 2021, Americans spent 10.5 billion hours on government paperwork at an estimated cost of $117 billion to the public and nearly $39 billion to the federal government. Government workers and constituents alike are spending exorbitant amounts of time completing and processing documents by hand, which can drive exhaustion

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Empower Digital Government: Strategic Workbook for Modern Transformation

Digital transformation is reshaping government interactions, bringing agencies closer to the communities they serve. However, while many have adopted new digital tools, few have implemented comprehensive strategies to maximize their benefits. Our Strategic Workbook for Modern Government offers a step-by-step guide to developing a sustainable digital strategy.

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How Small Communities Can Benefit from Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Funding

NLC (National League of Cities)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced additional resources and funding for communities under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) that are particularly geared toward smaller communities.

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Space launch: Are we heading for oversupply or a shortfall?

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

As the space economy expands, satellite constellations are proliferating. But launch providers must make tricky decisions on how to ramp up capacity.

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Agencies Onboarding Contractors Need More Diverse Authentication Technologies

FedTech Magazine

Agencies are implementing multifactor authentication as part of the federal push toward zero-trust architectures. For staff, the common Personal Identity Verification card gets the job done. Yet, things get complicated when agencies need to onboard contractors, who by some estimates account for up to 40 percent of the federal workforce. “Not everyone who needs to access a federal information system is PIV-eligible,” says Grant Dasher, architecture branch chief in the Office of the Technical Dire

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Celebrating our Nation’s Community Colleges

Homeroom

By: Amy Loyd, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education With the founding of Joliet Junior College near Chicago, Illinois in 1901, America’s community colleges have a long history of transforming lives and serving as on-ramps to economic and social mobility. Over the past 122 years, our nation’s community colleges have Continue Reading The post Celebrating our Nation’s Community Colleges appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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7 Signs Your Local Government ERP Is Holding You Back: A Guide for Small Municipalities

Local governments and municipalities serving populations under 200,000 face distinctive challenges in delivering efficient and effective services to their communities. To overcome these challenges, many rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tailored to their specific needs. Not all ERP systems are created equal, and some may hinder progress rather than support it.

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3 New (and Relatively Easy) Promotional Ideas for Increasing Your Circulation and Building Support of Your Library

Super Library Marketing

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Maybe this is just a library thing, but practically every time I leave the house, I have a book in my hand. Doctor’s appointments, salon appointments, a quick trip to pick up a prescription from the drive-thru pharmacy (WHY is the line so long??), the airport, a car trip… I must take a book with me.

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Gen what? Debunking age-based myths about worker preferences

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Our latest analysis of talent trends suggests that employees of all ages seem to want the same things from their work experience—with a few important caveats.

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Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience

Disaster Zone blog

The final documents are posted.

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Re: Sharing Lessons Learned from Microsoft’s Joint Surveillance Audit

Microsoft Public Sector

Good article but I would update and change “audit” to “assessment”. It is a Joint Surveillance Assessment not audit.

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Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

Speaker: Noratek

Maintaining municipal operations is no small task, especially when budgets are tight and public expectations are high. In this webinar, we’ll explore how local governments can streamline their maintenance operations while ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency. What You’ll Gain: Proven strategies for effective inspection management Insight into leveraging digital tools Practical tips for addressing common maintenance challenges Examples of municipalities that have achieved success.

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ServiceNow Drives Improvements in Municipal IT Service Management

State Tech Magazine

In the past, the city of San Diego relied on a range of vendors to support ticketing, service-level agreements and asset management for a variety of solutions. Today, the city has consolidated all of that into ServiceNow, a cloud computing platform that helps to manage digital workflows. “The biggest gain that we’ve seen has been developing our own processes,” says Ritchie Dioneda, the city’s service management office manager.

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Building more resilient and equitable US public health systems

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

With billions of dollars in pandemic relief funding still available, state and local public health agencies have an opportunity to improve their performance and prepare themselves for future challenges.

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AWS selects 14 startups for the 2023 AWS Space Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

Pictured: The AWS Space Accelerator 2023 cohort members and the AWS Venture Capital (VC) and Startups teams met to launch this year’s program Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the 14 global space startups selected to participate in the 2023 AWS Space Accelerator , a technical, business, and mentorship program to help startups advance their space solutions and accelerate their growth using the cloud.

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April 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2023 SIP Gateway is now available for Government Community Cloud customers to enable core Teams calling functionality on legacy devices. For organizations with investment in SIP devices, SIP Gateway provides calling, meeting dial-in, voicemail and other core telephony features.

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Boost Revenue With Simple Short-Term Rental Registration and Tax Collections

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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Observability Made Simple

GovLoop

As agencies transform their digital operations — expanding reliance on the cloud and adding new apps, integrations, and automations — their IT ecosystems become more complex. There are more places things can go wrong and more pressure to fix them quickly. You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See The task of monitoring these complex systems gets more complicated, too.

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Operational excellence: How purpose and technology can power performance

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Next-generation operational excellence is more than doing things well. It’s about uniting an organization around a common purpose, process, and systems.

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Schools Across the Nation Embrace Sustainable Practices

Homeroom

Congratulations to the 2023 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools, District Sustainability Awardees, and Postsecondary Sustainability Awardees! The 2023 cohort, announced April 20th, includes 26 schools, 11 districts, and four postsecondary institutions. These honorees employ sustainability practices and policies to reduce environmental impact and utility costs, improve health and wellness, and ensure effective environmental Continue Reading The post Schools Across the Nation Embrace

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Re: April 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Microsoft 365 IP and URL Endpoint Updates Documentation - Office 365 IP Address and URL web service March 29, 2023 - GCC March 1, 2023 – GCC High March 1, 2023 - DOD

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ASPA TIMES Magazine: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.