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Managing Remote Work

First State Insights

Topics covered in this November 12, 2020 interview include strategies Sarah and her team have used to maintain a workplace culture, efforts to enhance internal and external communication, and key lessons learned from managing through the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic.

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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

Since 2012, Ford — whom the American Public Transportation Association selected as Outstanding Public Transportation Manager in 2020 and President Barack Obama named a White House Champion of Change in 2015 — has served as the Jacksonville Transportation…

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Reporting on Logistics Trends with Paul Page

First State Insights

Topics covered in this November 20, 2020 interview include the increased economic importance of logistics and supply chain management, the evolving physical and digital infrastructure demands of the sector, and thoughts on what's in store for the logistics sector over the next few months and years.

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

She served as executive director from its formation until 2020. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. Bahmni is designed to improve the quality of patient care in settings with limited bandwidth and infrastructure.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same. The city is responsible for certain types of recycling.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

A few days ago, I was accused of "putting the careers of trainees and junior faculty at risk" because a member of my editorial team was slow to complete the review process on a paper that had been submitted to the journal I manage. Between 1st January and 3rd April 2020, 6,659 papers on Covid-19 were published. Gomez 2015.

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