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AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

percent claim to have successfully developed a data culture within their organizations, according to NewVantage Partners’ Data and Analytics Leadership Annual Executive Survey 2023. percent of companies describe themselves as data-driven , and a mere 20.6

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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

Work with pretty much any public sector leadership team after a flood or fire or similar natural cataclysm and the talk will be all admiration and yearning for the kind of instinctive collaboration that suddenly breaks out, at least so long as the emergency lasts. We want it but can’t ever seem to really deliver it.

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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

A governing thought leadership paper, produced by Governing and sponsored by OMNIA Partners entitled, How Procurement Can Support IT Sustainability Cooperatives , offers expertise and resources for green operations. Prior to the manufacturing bottlenecks, only new equipment would be procured for operational needs.

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

Google Public Sector

Using a Google Maps interface, residents and visitors can subscribe to a targeted area, like their neighborhoods or workplaces, and define what public works and event information they’d like to receive (and at what frequency).

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

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

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.”

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

It is also a story freighted with insights about the way to conceive and prosecute systemic reform in governing and public work. ” The strategy was clear-eyed and effective, combining the energy of new leadership and vision and deep institutional knowledge and practical experience: Mr Kamyshin quickly cleared out the middlemen.

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Conversations With CXOs: Michael Mayta

GovLoop

Imagine the director of public works, whose main task is not IT, and I come along and say, ‘We can connect all your traffic lights,’” Mayta said. On the other side, he can’t be an expert in managing the services those departments provide. It’s more of a partnership, an open discussion, that has to be continuing,” he said.