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TAGITM 2024: City Employees Embrace the Benefits of Cloud-Based Phone Systems

State Tech Magazine

The city of Benbrook moved its phone system to the cloud in 2019, he said, giving the government an opportunity to transition employees to a computer-based phone, or soft phone. But employees didn’t like the idea, so each Benbrook city employee retained a physical handset — a familiar…

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Beyond the Exodus: California’s Urban Centres in a Remote Work Age

The Lowe Down

I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024. Meanwhile, areas once reliant on commuters and nightlife have experienced less predictable market reactions as a general rise in prices due to overall housing scarcity is muted by slackening local demand.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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How to Make Digital Documents Work for You

GovLoop

A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. 31, 2022, although that will likely extend to June 2024. Adjudicators can quickly find what they need, clearing backlogs and moving application approvals and denials through faster. Defining Digital.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that a late night bus network needs to include Union Station in DC as a primary node.

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Clinical technology: Short-termism or the golden thread?

Open Access Government - Technology News

In the UK, the first national chief nursing information officer (CNIO) was appointed in early 2019, three years after the first national CCIO was appointed. It is often seen as separate from the clinical and nursing strategies of the organisation, as a box to be ticked.

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STEAM-empowered: AWS launches new skills and education programs to inspire cloud-curious students and empower girls, women across Virginia and beyond

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS will begin rolling these new program elements out in time for the 2023-2024 school year following the annual Girls’ Tech Day kick-off event taking place on September 30, 2023 at the Hylton Center in Virginia. These initiatives build upon the longstanding support for education and skills training programs in Virginia.