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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. Anthony oversees delivery of a FedNow® solution that will fully meet market-driven business requirements as well as resiliency and security standards.

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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.

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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. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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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

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). Political Communication 25 , 269–289.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans. 3 This business model is very complex.