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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, where, among other duties, she provided advice and guidance to the Army Chief of Staff on all Army healthcare matters.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Digital Identity , revolutionizing Brazilian citizens’ relationship with the public sector through a secure, simple, and interoperable identity. Released in 2019, GOV.BR It has 155 million users, performs three billion authentications a month, and enables secure access to 4,500 digital services from more than 1,000 public agencies.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. Congress allocates funding for federal agencies and programs through the appropriations process.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Common Securitization Solutions (CSS), a joint Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae venture launched in 2013, supports a cornerstone of the American economy: home ownership. trillion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as daily issuance of Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities (UMBS).

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Later, as part of BicycleSpace, a bicycle facilities system integration firm, I put together a proposal for activation including a water sculpture and multiple forms of secure, special bike parking.