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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

In my work in the public sector over the last 20 years or more, one of the most familiar tropes is the exasperated crusade so many engage in to find better ways to collaborate within and across governments and between governments and the wider community.

Public Works

Public Works Government Public Sector Leadership

3 Ways Cross-Departmental Alignment Can Improve Public Health in Your City

NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

From public works and sanitation to economic development and community engagement, the role that city governments play in serving their local communities is complex and multifaceted. When the work is this widespread, communicating across teams can be confusing and time-consuming, and its easy to slip into silos.

Public Health

Public Health Sanitation Economic Development Community Engagement

AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

How AWS and AWS Partners can help unlock more value from your data AWS provides a comprehensive set of data capabilities designed to help government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations analyze and interpret data, optimize data strategy, and break down silos. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners can help fill that gap.

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

The Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 2024 updates and modernizes the federal governments approach to economic development in light of the major changes in industry sectors, technology, labor markets, and global commerce that have occurred over the last two decades. The EDA reauthorization (S.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies.

Sustainability

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AI trustworthiness: Is the biggest AI challenge cultivating trust?

Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. appeared first on Open Access Government.

Cultivation

Cultivation Development Accountability Translation

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

Budgeting

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

Budgeting

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation

How Google Cloud is helping U.S public sector agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Google Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2020

In light of the current situation with COVID-19, public sector agencies are turning to the cloud more than ever, particularly as people increasingly need access to information and government services. You can learn more about our work here. In the U.S., For example, we rolled out the largest go-live event in G Suite history—1.3

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.). Is different from what I am familiar with, "back east". That was a mistake.

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Budgeting Transportation Economic Development Public Works

Does digitization make sense for small municipalities?

AccessE11

JUNE 10, 2022

Digital tools are not only for larger cities It’s true that a majority of municipal software solutions, including those for handling citizen service requests, are not designed for smaller local governments. Many were also using it for citizen engagement, elected official offices, and even internally for staff IT ticket handling.

Elected Officials

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How city managers can support the mental health of residents & employees

zencity

JANUARY 18, 2022

Nonetheless, I believe that although we could not necessarily constrain these stressors or their impact (to say the least), we as local government managers are in a unique position to help our residents manage the mental health challenges that so many are facing, and not just in terms of services. Supporting the mental health of employees.

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NRPA Annual Conference Tips for First-Time Attendees — Episode 160

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Sarah Olson, CPRP, Public Works Deputy Director of Engineering, Planning, and Development Servies, City of Kirkland, Washington “Go to a pre-conference event. Take every opportunity to broaden your network. You never know who you’ll meet who is struggling with the same issues or has ideas that would help your operation.”

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Leadership Local Government

Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

3 Ways Cross-Departmental Alignment Can Improve Public Health in Your City

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AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

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AI trustworthiness: Is the biggest AI challenge cultivating trust?

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

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NRPA Annual Conference Tips for First-Time Attendees — Episode 160

Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

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