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Lessons From China, India, Vietnam on National Transport Ambitions and Accelerating Decarbonization

The City Fix

In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries enhancing ambition and including transport-related targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). However,

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Building trust in government: A data-driven imperative

Partnership for Public Service

Among other findings, several alarming trends emerged in our work: Only 34% of respondents believe the federal government is accountable, while a significant 62% do not; and merely 21% agree that the federal government is transparent, with a strong majority, 70% disagreeing.

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Announcing general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise password leak detection

Google Public Sector

As long as passwords remain an incredibly common form of account authentication, password reuse attacks—which take advantage of people reusing the same password across multiple services—will be one of the most common ways for malicious hackers to hijack user accounts.

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COVID-19: Baby Bump or Baby Dump?

The Lowe Down

Expected deaths are calculated based on comprehensive models that account for previous demographic trends. Data on the % change in births across these 178 nations from 2019 to 2021 comes from “ Our World in Data ”. With this new model, we also find that COVID mortality accounts for about 20% of the variation in the changes in births.

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Cybercrime is on the rise, is your business prepared?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Reports of ransomware attacks increased over 3000% from 171,000 in 2019/20 to more than 5.5 They often include weak points such as admin accounts with insecure passwords or come without multi-factor authentication enabled. User accounts are now required for multiple device access and internet- based services.

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How to Give Back in the New Year

GovLoop

If you want to go further, getting some friends or coworkers involved not only increases the impact, but can keep you accountable to your volunteering schedule as well. If you work in finance, you could provide accounting help to a non-profit. A version of this article originally appeared on January 3, 2019. Favorite.

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See Yourself in Cyber – Protect Yourself from Phishing

The CIO Council

Even worse, over the past three years it has grown exponentially with more than twice as many complaints received in 2020 compared to 2019. . This information could be their social security number, bank account information, or their user ID and password. These are sobering statistics. or “There was a problem delivering your package.