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Citizens Benefit from Application Modernization and Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

But Code for America has found that the petition processes “to clear criminal records in most states is complicated and burdensome.” “A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website.

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Top 100 GovTech Influencers and Brands Creating the Operating System of Government!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Government uses technology to manage internal projects and procurement, to track infrastructure, to regulate zoning — to name just a few examples. Onalytica recently published a report detailing the GovTech Top 100 Influencers and Brands.

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Why Stronger Security Hinges on Identity Data

GovLoop

At the crux of every cybersecurity strategy is an identity data management challenge: How much information does an agency need to verify the identity of an individual requesting access to network resources? Image by DIDIER PETIT from Pixabay Favorite As it turns out, a lot. ” Download the full guide here.

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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

Can you remember the first time you used the term ‘outrage’ with a project manager or other non-engagement professional? The project manager laughed when I suggested we do an outrage assessment, he thought I was exaggerating. Did they think you were kidding? The outrage may look like: . the media is calling for resignations.

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How public sector organizations use AWS to build sustainability solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, the Government of Canada committed to investing millions into its satellite programs, which placed an extraordinary demand on the Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS). The data is also applicable to geology, coastal monitoring, agriculture, disaster management, and monitoring land use changes over time.

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Have a laugh and learn all about ‘The G Word,’ a comedy docuseries about our government

Partnership for Public Service

We had just wrapped up Adam Ruins Everything and the three of us were looking for our next project and our manager calls us and says, ‘Hey, do you want to take a meeting with Higher Ground? And John Adam and I had to really petition them. I mean to paint the picture a little bit, it was, May or June 2019.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005).