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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. US Homeland Security Council 2005. Mathews et al. McVernon, E.S.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Alexander, D.E. Ambraseys, N.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The UK Government's 13 policy U-turns do not reflect adaptation to dynamic circumstances, but inability to conceive what to do, how to implement it and how to communicate. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

We have argued, first of all, for adopting a broad concept of “information”—so that it is defined as something that refers not only to communications media and the messages transmitted, but also to the increasingly material “information content” of all things, including weapons and other sorts of systems. References.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.