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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

Much of India’s digital public infrastructure is thriving due to his leadership. Pahlka served in President Obama’s administration as the deputy chief technology officer from 2013-14, where she worked on initiatives to modernize government technology and improve digital services.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

As CEO of Google Public Sector, I am honored to join the board with these distinguished professionals, each of whom brings diverse perspectives and rich experiences to our leadership team. His previous leadership roles include Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Associate Director for Military Affairs, CIA, and many others.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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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

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).