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

AWS Public Sector Blog

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. DHCS provides more than $100 billion in local assistance to provide essential services for the people of California.

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Why You Can’t Kill Off Passwords

GovLoop

You strengthen password infrastructure by implementing: Encryption, hashing and hash-salting algorithms Multifactor authentication Pre-site verification before password injection Forbid employee-managed passwords. Biometrics also has high costs and implementation considerations. Dovell Bonnett.

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Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

Center for Community Progress

More than half of properties bought on those subprime loans provided by Wells Fargo between 2005 to 2008, for example, were subject to foreclosure. When the housing bubble burst, many homes were suddenly worth much, much less than what people owed on them. Seventy-one percent of those were in predominately Black neighborhoods.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. These changes have not been to the detriment of the service we provide, in fact, the opposite.

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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. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. 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.

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Market, Message, and Medium: A Library Marketer Shares How She Tackles Promotions in a Time Crunch

Super Library Marketing

Suzanne Macaulay began her career as a Children’s Librarian at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, New York in 2005. Several of our (public) libraries switched up their teen spaces using the Dynamic Shelving approach she implemented in her high school library.”. Kelsey Bogan is an amazing example.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures.