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Visions of Recovery: Leveraging Libraries for Vital Communities

First State Insights

Betsey Suchanic, Senior Program Manager with the Urban Libraries Council, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about local libraries' critical community economic development roles.

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Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?

Barrett & Greene

According to Joshua Pine, City Innovation and Data Program manager for the National League of Cities, “The current data on our Tracker is for plans submitted August 31st, 2021. The data we are currently cleaning and hope to have running early next week is for plans submitted December 31st 2021.”

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State agencies deliver needed services with help from Speridian and Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

When $10B was allocated to the Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) local state agencies needed to act quickly to assist homeowners avoid mortgage delinquencies, defaults, foreclosures or loss of utilities. Caseworkers and counselors could review applications and perform adjudication quickly.

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Securing the Software Supply Chain Takes on New Urgency

GovLoop

At the same time, a raft of federal mandates and guidance has focused attention on supply-chain security: The May 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity says leaders “must take action to rapidly improve the security and integrity of the software supply chain.”

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area. They also implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to allow constituents to communicate with the office outside business hours.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area. It’s essential for an agency’s full team — specifically process and program managers — to be invested in engagement-related IT advances, Skowera said.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Bolster resource availability—particularly in times of crisis Louisiana has seen its share of natural disasters—in 2021 alone, seven hurricanes made landfall. Hosting our shared data on the AWS Cloud has enabled agencies and districts to work in tandem now.”