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Using AI for intelligent document processing to support benefit applications and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

In these applications, documents—in various sources, formats, and layouts—are the primary tools for application assessment. Processing these documents manually or by using legacy optical character recognition (OCR) systems is time-consuming and prone to error. Tens of millions of residents apply for these benefits every year.

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Announcing the 2021 Google Cloud Customer Award Winners in Government

Google Public Sector

When the federal government authorized $46 billion in the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) in December 2020, the county had to approve and disburse funds at a pace of no less than $500,000 a week to avoid federal rescission. The New York State Department of Labor launched the Excluded Workers Fund to distribute $2.1

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The PLUM Act: A New Era of Transparency into Senior Leadership Government

Partnership for Public Service

In 2021 congressional testimony , a 2020 blog and a 2021 blog , the Partnership for Public Service as well as others who have studied the Plum Book have documented the many deficiencies of the traditional Plum Book. The law also requires identification of individuals who temporarily serve in vacant positions.

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Clinical technology: Short-termism or the golden thread?

Open Access Government - Technology News

The What Good Looks Like framework describes seven elements to ensure all health and care providers have a strong foundation in digital practice, and the Department of Health’s policy document, A Plan for Health & Social Care, explains how it will provide multi-year funding to ICSs based on need, starting with those without an EPR.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA Annual 2023

Librarian.net

Previous reports from me: June 2020 , January 2021 (did not write a report), July 2021 , January 2022 , June 2022 (did not go to ALA ), January 2023 I filled in for outgoing Councilor Marti Fisk who moved, and was elected to a three-year term starting in 2020. All documents for this meeting can be found here.

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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Rather, since the New York City Housing Court began to accept new eviction filings again on June 20, 2020, certain types of cases moved forward despite a complex intersection of Local, State, and Federal protections. A warrant of eviction is the legal document that allows a marshall to remove a tenant and their possessions from an apartment.

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