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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Over the course of two days, participants of the 2023 VAD Academy learned everything from the basics of what causes vacancy and abandonment and the foundations of community revitalization to advanced legal, policy, and practice tools that can help neighborhoods turn vacant spaces into vibrant places.

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5 public sector technology predictions for 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

As we begin 2023, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector (WWPS) team wanted to share a few of our predictions for public sector technology this year. To get full benefits from ML, it’s important to have relevant and high-quality data to inform ML models. Greater adoption of AI and ML to advance mission outcomes.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” In a January 2023 report, the U.S.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

It houses a vast, continuously growing dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information. From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis.

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How will the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme change in April 2023?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Take social media as an example – where we were referring to using such platforms in hours per month in 2010, the average user today now spends 2 hours and 27 minutes of their day on them. Digitalisation has played no small part in this changing dynamic. Today, more data is online, meaning more data is vulnerable.

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3 Library Marketing Experts Agree: It’s Time for Your Library To Abandon Twitter

Super Library Marketing

The number of libraries that use Twitter/X for promotion fell an astounding 17 percentage points this year, according to the 2023 Super Library Marketing Survey. Laura Solomon , MCIW, MLS is the Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public Library Information Network and a W3C-certified front-end web developer. Not anymore.

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Archangel: The future of telecare service providers is now

Open Access Government - Technology News

This is despite (or because of) the sea of often conflicting, confusing information. Information, clarity, and openness are key to ensuring that the relevant departments and decision-makers feel equipped to make a decision around their digital strategy, allocate sufficient budget as a priority, and move forward with implementation.