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TAGITM 2024: City Employees Embrace the Benefits of Cloud-Based Phone Systems

State Tech Magazine

We were going to run it all through computers,” Cooper said Wednesday during a panel of the Texas Association of Governmental Information Technology Managers in San Antonio. But employees didn’t like the idea, so each Benbrook city employee retained a physical handset — a familiar…

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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How to Make Digital Documents Work for You

GovLoop

Citizenship and Immigration Services handles documents that have been scanned and entered into a case management system for a human adjudicator to review. A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. Defining Digital.

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Mitigating the risk of council technology investments

Open Access Government - Technology News

Local authority risk management is crucial as councils are ideal targets for hackers, with their systems hosting a wealth of resident, employee and supplier records. The digital transformation process is often managed by massive consulting businesses that benefit financially from making the process complicated and slow.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Kunkel earned his PhD in sport management and has published a multitude of academic treatises on the complex interactions of brands, professional sports, and fans. But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities.

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Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

The City Fix

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.