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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement

Social Pinpoint

Fast forward to the fall of 2020, in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Pittsburgh hosted a two-month, virtual open house for the Oakland Plan. Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

My role, which I really appreciate, has been in kind of translating what folks who are experiencing the program say and helping the people that run the program better understand what the impact is on the frontline,” Vogel-Ferguson told us. We went through this process twice – once starting in 2006 and then again in 2012.

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5G and net zero: can the two coincide?

Open Access Government - Technology News

While this represents an increase of 24% since 2019 and a significant 1.1 5G emerges to tackle the digital divide. The ITU estimates that approximately 5.3 billion people – or 66% of the world’s population – are using the Internet in 2022. billion people offline, unconnected. However, there’s a catch.

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November 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

If you are relying on dial plan policies to translate numbers dialed starting with a +, those rules will no longer work. MC680788 — Pin based verification process for support callers Rolled Out In 2020, we added a PIN-based verification step to our existing phone-based verification process, to better protect your organization.

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July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. When editors change site content that is not in their preferred language, it will modify the label instead of creating a translation. Action: Review and assess impact.