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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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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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Four Years After the Pandemic, Work-From-Home Trends Reshape Residential Choices and Real Estate

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In industries such as finance, information, and real estate, more than half of employees work from home at least some of the time. According to the WFH Research, which oversees the SWAA survey, the average distance from the workplace rose from 10 miles in January 2020 to over 25 miles in 2023. [2]

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management. Rafia holds an M.S.I.

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Interactive digital media platforms impact on Canadians lives

Open Access Government - Technology News

Digital media improves social connection, identity creation, and information and support. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023. Scientific Reports, 2023. Social Media+ Society, 2023. in 2013 to 16.8% 6) Social media use can cause isolation, insomnia, and academic failure. Courdi, C.,

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Canadian government’s Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) program Beyond the Cloud trains people and upskills employees for essential roles such as cloud architects, engineers, and administrators. They develop online portals, mobile apps, and digital platforms to access government services and information.