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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Through SASpeakUp, they provided numerous channels for input, including a website, social media and in-person meetups. SASpeakUp was deemed a success because it increased engagement efforts across the city.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). At the time many transit advocates including myself were opposed, because of the sense that it would denigrate a sense of responsibility towards the public good of transit. Other options.

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Protecting government institutions’ data: Who bears the responsibility?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Systems had reportedly been compromised since August 2021, meaning that cybercriminals had been operating undetected for a significant time. Some parallels can be drawn to the Cambridge Analytical scandal in 2015. We must toughen up governmental cyber defences This is not the only incident of note that has impacted the political stage.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. Krimgold (eds) 2015.

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