AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

California swiftly embraced the ACA and became the first state in the nation to enact legislation to set up a health insurance exchange and soon after, in partnership with the state’s Medicaid agency, established the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System (CalHEERS).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 30, 2023

Many public sector organisations lack the internal resources to keep pace with the ever-changing threat, and understandably, they would prefer to focus on delivering frontline services. New demands on public sector IT environments require increased cybersecurity maturity. Where does the data originate from?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To minimize the risk of dangerous IT-related interruptions to operations, the European Union (EU) introduced new cybersecurity legislation NIS 2 Directive in 2023. The legislation is planned to be enacted in Germany, which already has strict regulatory standards for clinics with 30,000 inpatient cases per year or more than 50 employees.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

In 2019, the French government passed legislation transforming the healthcare system by establishing a digital health space (ENS). Ireland has taken a proactive approach to enabling better use of health data while protecting patient privacy through legislation like the Data Protection Act 2018 , which aligns with GDPR.

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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

JULY 12, 2022

In a digital world, and in response to changing government policy, public sector organizations are under increasing pressure to quickly deliver business value while improving stability, quality, and security. Achieving ATO is essential to public sector operations. Lire cet article en français.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 5, 2024

Good day, Last week we were talking to an inquisitive person who is rising in the local public sector world. And they often tell us (usually off the record) that it’s the mayors, councilmembers, governors and legislators who stand in their way.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Legislation governing public services can affect the potential for digitization. Digital-compatibility checks leveraging “rules as code” could help.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

Compliance standards are implemented within the public sector to achieve minimum cyber security standards. Government action against cyber-enabled fraud The public sector faces challenges in responding quickly to the evolving threat landscape that criminals can exploit. This trend is expected to continue to rise.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Secure and compliant messaging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration service that provides the advanced security, administrative controls, and data retention capabilities government agencies need to protect sensitive information and meet legislative requirements, such as Australia’s Archives Act 1983.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For the public sector, this approach to human resources is both a reaction to a high level of state and local government vacancies and the realization that many potential employees who could contribute have found the entryway to good jobs, promotions and higher salaries needlessly blocked by a so-called paper ceiling.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

After producing data insights, our role then is to help identify for public health decision makers—which include regulators, legislators, health system executives, pharmaceutical researchers, and more—the factors that contribute to health inequity across areas and across populations.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 1, 2025

Reporting on cyber incidents The legislation will also give regulators better powers to ensure organisations meet new cyber security requirements. These data centres hold a lot of information and are critical to finance and e-commerce industries.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

If faced with skeptical leaders or legislators, you won’t win them over by talking data standards and policies. A Better Business Case The idea of arguing from outcome rather than policy has ramifications when it comes to the budgeting and appropriations processes. You need to talk impact. Again, it’s all about outcomes.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

Across the public sector, boosting agility has been a priority in digital transformation and modernization strategy. Digital transformation and modernization activities were fast-tracked across the public sector to allow government agencies to operate at full capacity under unusual circumstances.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Strong privacy safeguards in accordance with prevailing legislation, standards and guidelines are particularly vital. Protecting data security Data security and privacy are the top priorities in national research programmes like Singapores National Precision Medicine (NPM) programme.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. I wondered.

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GovLoop

MARCH 31, 2023

State Privacy Legislation Tracker This site, developed by the nonprofit International Association of Privacy Professionals, offers state-by-state details on privacy legislation and trends, along with helpful infographics. Here are other privacy and ethics resources you might find helpful. ⇒

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. mortgage originations.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

A notable one is an element of New York City legislation called the “How Many Stops Act”, which would require New York police officers to report on every single police street stop and investigative encounter, including demographic information about the person stopped and the reason for the encounter. But there are exceptions.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Workforce challenges in the public sector are not just an “HR problem.” Every one of us interacts with our government in some way — and these experiences shape our perception of public sector organizations as potential employers. “We

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 3, 2024

1. “We know we are in financially sound shape because we have to pass a balanced budget.” 2. “It’s impossible to fire a public sector employee.” 3. “We’ll solve this problem by setting up a commission.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 12, 2022

While pensions and retiree health liabilities garner lots of headlines as dramatic fiscal threats, a less-publicized, but still critical concern is leave liability -- the amounts that are paid out for unused sick or vacation leave to departing employees.

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GovLoop

APRIL 9, 2024

While government will always struggle with bureaucracy, and public-sector hiring may lag that of private industry, agencies often can do more to draw talented people to government and compel them to stay. Lee suggests that looking at live metrics actually better indicates who’s being engaged and how they are responding.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 21, 2024

Add in policy changes mid-sprint that occur from legislative sessions, and it becomes an unruly, unmanageable task with deadlines that continue to push out.” Wiri mentioned that one of the biggest challenges to modernizing public services is the limitations of manual app testing.

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

MARCH 5, 2024

We are delighted to announce this year’s prizes for award winning papers published in Policy & Politics in 2023. The Bleddyn Davies Prize, which acknowledges scholarship of the very highest standard by an early career academic, is awarded to joint winners: … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 11, 2022

Yet, as evidenced by multiple premature releases of judicial and legislative decisions causing great political and civil impact, not all sensitive information lives on a SQL server. For most of the blog, we’ve focused primarily on sensitive PII data living on server infrastructure in Azure (IaaS).

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector with Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. Every legislator should know that their constituents will be directly affected by how well the government operates.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake Inc. Every legislator should know that their constituents will be directly affected by how well the government operates. In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Further, we’re seeing similar moves being made by other professional advisory and legislative bodies across the globe that are equally raising their expectations of organisations in deploying appropriate technical measures. The UK Telecommunications Security Act is a prime example.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

AUGUST 20, 2017

As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents. What does this mean for government in action?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It is a constant battle because the legislation and associated requirements constantly change. Cloud providers also conduct regular and consistent security updates, relieving public sector organisations and their security teams of concerns about updates while removing the need to employ an IT expert to constantly maintain their servers.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

As a practical matter, though, the conflict between federal law and state constitutionality may mean that Detroit must wait a long time before it knows how much it owes (Public Sector).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

The plan should factor key elements such as time to socialize and promote the program, and time to make sure there is enough buffer to actualize return on investment before contracts expire and legislative budget asks are anticipated.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

In the public sector, civic leaders must make sure that a wide variety of citizen services are delivered efficiently, responsibly, and successfully. Public sector organizations can deal with a large amount of personally identifiable citizen information, tax records, and other sensitive public data.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The public sector has proven particularly vulnerable to these attacks, with criminals threatening critical national infrastructure like water supplies, transportation, and basic operations in local and national governments. What is the impact of an attack on public services?

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