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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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Out with the old: Why traditional tech training methods need upgrading

Open Access Government - Technology News

A recent survey from AND Digital found that 81% of UK managing directors say a lack of digital skills negatively affects their company, while more than a quarter (27%) of employees claim that they don’t have sufficient digital skills to do their job role. increase from 2018/19. In 2019, only 16% were female employees.

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

Partnership for Public Service

And since 1976, our government has shut down 21 times for at least a day, when Congress could not agree on appropriations or pass stopgap funding, including a partial government shutdown of 35 days in 2018-2019. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team. The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages.

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Why the creation of smart cities requires real-time data processing

Open Access Government - Technology News

To manage the rising urbanisation of smart cities, city planners and managers must turn to real-time data processing. of the population lived in an urban area in 2019, which is increasing all the time. of the population lived in an urban area in 2019, which is increasing all the time. In England alone, 82.9%

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.).

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