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Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: An interview with Oliver Wise, Director, Office of Performance and Accountability, City of New Orleans – Episode #114

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. In 2015, it launched an analytics unit called NOLAlytics that undertakes data-driven projects to improve city services. He is the founding director of the Office of Performance and Accountability.

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2015, the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers and partners improve their cloud architectures and reduce their technical risk. Find the Government Lens on the AWS Well-Architected website or contact your AWS account team for more information.

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Cybrary: Closing the cybersecurity skills gap with affordable tools and training

Google Public Sector

Founded in 2015, the EdTech company provides specialized, online, cybersecurity skills development and has enabled more than 3 million learners, ranging from individuals to small businesses and Fortune 1000 organizations, to defend against today’s threats. Cybrary is working to address these challenges.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight. More of that, please."

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

in 2011-2015 and 0.09 While we include county fixed effects to account for county-specific time-invariant unobservable characteristics, we do not explicitly analyze the relationship between ethnicity and pollution within counties the way we have for income. in the period 2006-2010. percent decline in exposure. for 2016-2020.

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. That makes perfect sense, because in government we’re funded by business units, and how government is held accountable, traditionally, is through operational measures,” she said. But those measures don’t tell the whole story.

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Cybrary: Closing the cybersecurity skills gap with affordable tools and training

Google Public Sector

Founded in 2015, the EdTech company provides specialized, online, cybersecurity skills development and has enabled more than 3 million learners, ranging from individuals to small businesses and Fortune 1000 organizations, to defend against today’s threats. Cybrary is working to address these challenges.