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Q&A: NASCIO’s Doug Robinson Discusses the Expanding Role of the State CIO

State Tech Magazine

In January, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers updated its mission statement for the first time in 20 years. Not since 2004, the year Doug Robinson became NASCIO’s executive director, has the organization tweaked its concisely worded mission to advance government excellence.

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Cyber Awareness Month Resources

GovLoop

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency started Cybersecurity Awareness Month back in 2004 with the goal of increasing awareness around cyber threats in both the public and private sectors. As threats have only evolved and become more sophisticated in the nearly 20 years since this program began, it feels more relevant than ever.

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Lax Regulation Doesn’t Fully Explain Unsafe Buildings in African Cities: A View from Ghana

The City Fix

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Cybersecurity – Protecting a global research university

Public Sector Future

In this episode, host Olivia Neal speaks to Mary Ann Blair, the Chief Information Security Officer of Carnegie Mellon University. Blair and her team, the Information Security Office, protect the global research university from cyber threats that attack the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and systems. Hear

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Cybersecurity – Protecting a global research university

Public Sector Future

In this episode, host Olivia Neal speaks to Mary Ann Blair, the Chief Information Security Officer of Carnegie Mellon University. Blair and her team, the Information Security Office,?protect protect the global research university from cyber threats that attack the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and systems.?Hear

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Google Ad Grants Improve Your Library’s Chances of Being Found in Search: How To Apply and Manage This Incredible Opportunity

Super Library Marketing

Many libraries have taken advantage of this program since it was launched in 2004. It presents a library with an opportunity to show up at the right time with the right information, to the right person.” Thousands of nonprofits use the program. You apply once, and the grant continues indefinitely.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the so-called information age, rational argument is increasingly impotent. and left us] powerless to resist the spread of junk information.” We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. Further reading Chomsky, N.