State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the previous legislative session, Senate Bill 475 directed state technology leaders to set up a risk and authorization management program for cloud computing products. In Texas, meanwhile, a parallel track is emerging to address cybersecurity in those companies that are only looking to do business with the Lone Star State.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this podcast we do deep dive into the legislative process of the Congress of the United States. The role of committee chairpersons and their staff is explored, along with the way in which bills are introduced in Congress and move through the legislative process. The role of committee staff is discussed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

AWS offers more than 240 fully featured services, with the deepest functionality within those services, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic Regions , with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2023

One of the additional duties for emergency managers at the local level is to make and maintain connections with local and state elected officials. This is not everyone’s “cup of tea” but it can be a vital aspect of having a disaster management program that enjoys the support of legislators.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

However, the use of consumer-grade messaging applications poses significant security and sovereignty risks for Australian government agencies, making it difficult to meet governmental information management obligations.

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GCN

APRIL 26, 2024

Opponents of the bills call the trend a ‘manufactured crisis’ that could affect legitimate tenant protections.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To manage and recover from a cyber event, organizations need updated, coherent strategies — not faded handbooks pulled off a shelf. Soon, Gregg’s office will develop its approach for the North Dakota legislative session, which takes place every other year. That’s a problem for any organization, and certainly for government.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 11, 2025

You can find all the details at www.smartresponse.org The podcast guest is Ben Smilowitz,ben@disasteraccountabilityproject.org He witnessed the bungled Hurricane Katrina response while managing a high-volume Red Cross Client Service Center in Gulfport, MS.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Widely used within the private sector, enterprise risk management, or ERM, is today used by federal agencies to address a broad range of risks across their organizations. Strategies for success with enterprise risk management. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach.

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GCN

JANUARY 19, 2024

COMMENTARY | Researchers want real-world impact. Lawmakers want programs that work. The public wants to benefit from taxpayer-funded research. Building a bridge from academia to legislatures is key to all three.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 18, 2025

You can find all the details at www.smartresponse.org The podcast guest is Ben Smilowitz, ben@disasteraccountabilityproject.org He witnessed the bungled Hurricane Katrina response while managing a high-volume Red Cross Client Service Center in Gulfport, MS.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 5, 2024

The conversation turned to performance management (one of our favorite topics) and the question was posed to us: “What do you think are the biggest impediments to more widespread use of that discipline? Over many years, we’ve talked to scores, maybe hundreds, of people who have dedicated their lives to managing government performance.

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GCN

APRIL 29, 2024

State lawmakers—many of whom are women—are establishing new committees to study and investigate investigating pregnancy-related deaths, their causes and prevention.

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GCN

JANUARY 3, 2024

As state legislatures across the country prepare for the new session, Washington state Sen. Karen Keiser offers newly elected lawmakers advice in a new book that looks back on a 25-year career.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

DRAGEN secondary analysis pipelines, enable customers to leverage a comprehensive suite of workflows and high levels of variant calling accuracy within a secure and customizable data management platform when accessed through Connected Analytics, enabling scientific insight at scale.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

However, to fully understand how this legislation came to pass, and why it is helpful contextually to review the history of land banking and tax foreclosure in Ohio. In the 1970s, Ohio had passed what can be viewed as traditional land bank legislation, which authorized municipalities, counties, and townships to create land banks.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would shift some land-use authorities to the state to streamline renewable energy developments. But local governments and residents fear their voices will get left behind in the race to build green infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With cloud-native media and asset management platform Nomad , scalable live streaming capabilities can be implemented quickly and simply. Nomad helps customers manage, organize, and distribute digital assets, including video and live streaming broadcasts. Learn more about Nomad.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 5, 2023

As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to outpace the enactment of legislation to govern its use, the European Commission is taking the lead in launching a collaborative effort with the United States.

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GCN

MARCH 15, 2024

Counties are pushing for Congress to pass legislation that will require calls be routed based on location. Wireless carriers are already working with the federal government to start doing that.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The benefit of a city’s procurement function may be overlooked or underrecognized by the executive and legislative branches, especially if it’s operating with few problems.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation. In doing so, they ensured these efforts to pass land banking enabling legislation were not wasted.

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GCN

MARCH 7, 2024

Public health experts warn that anti-fluoridation legislation is buoyed by misinformation and junk science.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 28, 2024

So, based on decades we’ve spent writing about state and local management and policy, here are some ideas we’d like to share with people in the press who are covering state and local government. But there’s another side to this coin: What should members of the press know in order to more effectively cover their governments?

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 8, 2025

After recent legislation expanded program eligibility , the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program is now better equipped to support unemployed workers in their employment searches.

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GovLoop

APRIL 18, 2024

What is Change Management? 6 Steps to Success But great rewards are possible with effective change management. It requires a disciplined project manager, akin to an orchestra conductor who ensures that all pieces of the project work in harmony, Oliver said.

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GCN

MARCH 18, 2024

Several states are considering or have already enacted legislation undoing more progressive policies.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Just yesterday, the White House warned of potential impacts including the Food and Drug Administration would have to furlough employees who would normally conduct food safety inspections, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would have to halt long-term projects and more. A bipartisan bill , sponsored by Sens.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons.

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GCN

JUNE 3, 2024

Nearly every state this legislative session considered changes in juvenile age limits, detention or education programs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Mechanisms to help businesses and organisations identify and managed risks for the design and implementation of AI solutions are being introduced globally, including a variety of international standards ( ISO 42001 , ISO 23894 , and NIST RMF ), legislation ( EU AI Act ), and localised standards and frameworks such as the NSW AI Assurance Framework.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

It expands on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, providing detailed guidance and recommendations that account for the special set of legal, legislative, accountability, and trust requirements that governments have – and helps them deliver meaningful outcomes on AWS.

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GCN

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Washington and other states, independent redistricting commissions have fallen prey to partisanship, just like the legislative bodies they were meant to replace.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Florida made legislative changes requiring buildings that are three stories or higher and more than 30 years old, to undergo a milestone inspection. This can be seen more recently after events like the 2021 Surfside, Fla., condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As discussed at one recent event in Türkiye, organised by Amazon Web Services, regulatory and legislative frameworks that enable secure data sharing and access, alongside policies such as cloud computing strategies, can support innovative healthcare projects.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. the legislation establishing them).

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

It is more important than ever that the SSI program is modernized and accessible to all Americans,” the legislators wrote. ” For more ideas about how to make the case for modernization that agency leaders and legislators find compelling, download it here: Get the guide Favorite

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