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Making public services more accessible with AI-powered translations from Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

Star Trek has the universal translator. Without the need for telepathy or sci-fi, we use AI-powered translation technology. With smart translations, done almost in real-time, we’ve created a new, more agile way of communicating. Next, the APIs Speech-to-Text , Cloud Translation , and Text-to-Speech do their thing.

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WHAT DO – OR DON’T – THE FEDS DO?

Barrett & Greene

But as a recently released report from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) , points out that, the feds aren’t the only level of government that must be involved in meaningful solutions. That’s true in large part because adapting infrastructure to climate change is fundamentally a local government issue.

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January 2017 | Thinking about Undergraduate Education in Public Affairs, By Mary K. Feeney*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. Especially for public universities, there is a need to generate revenue and students in seats translate to revenue.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

This can translate into real savings as interfund transfers may remedy temporary cash shortages eliminating the need for the use of other working capital management strategy tools such as direct lending and short-term debt.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy.

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10 March 2017 | Expertise, Advice Seeking, and the President, By Michael Siciliano

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

A one unit change on a five point accessibility scale translated into a 65% increase in the odds of seeking that person out for advice. Ignoring the Experts: Networks and Organizational Learning in the Public Sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 27 (1): 104-119. 1] Siciliano, M.D.