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Changes in the Ransomware Threat to State and Local Governments

State Tech Magazine

While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020. And with local governments usually dealing with limited resources, they’re often considered low-hanging fruit when it comes to cyberattacks.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. Making solutions available for other governments to adapt and adopt can accelerate digital transformation. Released in 2019, GOV.BR

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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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Open the Doors to the People You Need

GovLoop

Partnering with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD), IOT has adapted an existing trade apprenticeship program to train people interested in a career change to IT and recruit them into roles in state government. Hire for Skills, not Credentials Governments at all levels struggle to recruit workers, especially for IT jobs.

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Providing transparency into government requests for enterprise data

Google Public Sector

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to being transparent about when governments request our enterprise customers’ data. For the first time, it breaks out the number of government requests we received for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Enterprise Cloud customer data. This version of the report represents an important step forward.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’.