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Federal Business Applications Webinar - June 21st - Power Platform Center of Excellence

Microsoft Public Sector

The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a Power Platform Center of Excellence in the Federal Government Sphere June 21st @ 1pm ET Established in 2020, Transport Canada’s Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) team has been involved in Governance, Professional Development, and Citizen Development. This presentation covers how the CoE came to be, the successes, the struggles, and the lessons learned.

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How Can Automation Affect Your Agency? 

GovLoop

Robotic process automation (RPA) has become necessary for agencies to perform their missions efficiently, and there’s multiple levels of automation that your organization can choose to utilize. What are the types of automation, and how can they assist your agency?

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Re: Satisfying CMMC IA.L2-3.5.3 MFA requirement with Windows Hello for Business

Microsoft Public Sector

One challenge with the policy setting, "Interactive logon: Require Windows Hello for Business or smart card," is that it requires that a WHFB PIN has already been created for the user. If an existing employee must sign into a device for the first time (device replacement, employee moves to a new location) or if a new employee is issued a device, it presents a challenge.

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The Power of Community Beauty: Transforming Small Cities for Success

NLC (National League of Cities)

Edmond Burke said that “Beauty is the promise of happiness.” As you drive down the streets in your community, are you proud? Are you impressed? Are you entertained? As you stand downtown in your city and look around, is your city doing all it can to draw attention to initiatives you are working on?

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The Ultimate Playground Inspection Handbook

Dive into the world of playground safety with this complimentary guide. It offers a detailed exploration of essential practices to ensure the utmost safety for children. Delve into inspection techniques, from assessing equipment conditions to evaluating surfacing materials. Gain insights into maintenance strategies to keep playgrounds in top-notch condition year-round.

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Cultivating a Culture Braced for Change 

GovLoop

Change is hard, but as a leader, you can make transition easier for your team. In the latest edition of Management Minutes With Mika, government workforce expert Mika Cross joins Lou Kerestesy, owner of Louis Coaching & Consulting, LLC, to share advice on creating a workplace culture that’s prepared for anything. When asked how leaders could create a team culture that’s ready for change, Kerestesy explained that first, you must decide what culture is.

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Grant Trainers – Who’s the Expert?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Years ago, the Grant Professionals Association started the Conference Navigators Program as part of their annual conference. They pair regular attendees with first-timers a month or two before the conference. Conference navigators typically email first-timers before the event, sharing advice, and offering to answer any questions. I always warn to dress in layers that can overcome fluctuating room temperatures; bring comfortable shoes; participate in one or two of the social activities; and make

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Build together: Rethinking solar project delivery

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Limited engineering and construction capacity could challenge America’s ability to quickly grow renewables. To win in an undersupplied market, renewables players can rethink project delivery.

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Officials tout data centers’ economic benefits

GCN

Amazon said its facilities in Virginia paid more than $300 million in taxes last year alone, and local leaders said the campuses contribute to economic development.

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Delivering a stellar experience for all key stakeholders in medtech

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

With the focus on CX gaining momentum in medtech, companies can look to more mature industries to develop a stellar experience that boosts stakeholder satisfaction and business returns.

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Want to Be a GovLoop Featured Contributor?

GovLoop

Have you heard? GovLoop is accepting new applications for its Featured Contributor program — an opportunity for current and former government employees and industry representatives to write on topics about which they’re passionate. It’s a chance to share your knowledge with — and be recognized by — GovLoop’s community of 300,000+ public sector employees, industry partners, and knowledge experts.

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7 Signs Your Local Government ERP Is Holding You Back: A Guide for Small Municipalities

Local governments and municipalities serving populations under 200,000 face distinctive challenges in delivering efficient and effective services to their communities. To overcome these challenges, many rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tailored to their specific needs. Not all ERP systems are created equal, and some may hinder progress rather than support it.

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The big product and platform shift: Five actions to get the transformation right

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

To succeed, incumbent organizations need to take five actions as they scale their product and platform model transformations.

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Why address confidentiality programs are broken and how we can fix them

GCN

COMMENTARY | To protect the privacy of at-risk people requires better regulations limiting data collection, stronger consumer rights and scalable solutions for removing personal information from the internet.

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CDW Boosts Federal Digital Velocity Offerings with Enquizit Acquisition

FedTech Magazine

CDW expanded the digital velocity services it can offer federal agencies with its acquisition on Tuesday of Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud solutions provider. The acquisition adds extensive experience designing, developing and managing mission-critical applications as well as SkyMap, an artificial intelligence–powered cloud migration accelerator, to CDW’s offerings.

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New York Local Government Cybersecurity Management Plan 2023 | GovPilot

GovPilot

N ew York local governments have a lot of reasons to prioritize cybersecurity. Given the state’s reputation as a global economic powerhouse and one of the largest, most notable regions in America, governments in the Empire State make for a prime target for ransomware attacks and other disastrous hacks.

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Sustainable Facility Maintenance Management for Small Local Governments

Unlock the potential of sustainable facility management! This guide empowers small local governments to lead with climate-resilient infrastructure, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and more. Elevate your community's resilience, reduce costs, and embrace eco-friendly practices. Discover the role of facility maintenance teams in green cleaning, sustainability analyses, and infrastructure upgrades.

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Collin County Calling: Exploring Thriving Government Job Opportunities in the Heart of Texas

Careers in Government

Explore thriving government job opportunities in Collin County, Texas. Discover diverse career paths and competitive benefits with Careers in Government. The post Collin County Calling: Exploring Thriving Government Job Opportunities in the Heart of Texas appeared first on Careers in Government.

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Great Smoky Mountains Host Citizen Observers

GovLoop

The National Park Service (NPS) fields more than two dozen citizen science projects, both park-specific and multi-park. From Denali in Alaska to Saguaro in Arizona, volunteers collect data, upload it and share in the scientific achievement. At Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), which spans the North Carolina/Tennessee border, volunteers record flora, fauna and fungi using an app that geotags their photos and attaches other information about where the photos were taken.

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”Adjacent” Means “Adjoining:” EPA Authority Down the Drain?

NLC (National League of Cities)

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court released its highly anticipated decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, a case again construing the meaning of “waters of the United States.” The decision in favor of the petitioners was unanimous, but the underlying analyses varied widely.

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The global balance sheet is off-kilter. Central banks can't fix it.

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

With U.S. and global inflation lingering at above-average levels, interest rates continuing to rise in major markets, and financial turbulence surfacing, all eyes are on central banks. Their decisions matter. But improving productivity growth matters more, write Asutosh Padhi and Olivia White in Barron's.

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ASPA TIMES Magazine: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.

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Is generative AI bad for the environment?

GCN

A computer scientist explains the carbon footprint of ChatGPT and its cousins.

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Australia’s potential in the lithium market

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Demand for lithium is expected to rise rapidly in the future, and Australia has a unique opportunity to make the most of it.

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Announcing first Google Cloud OSCAL package submission for DoD Impact Level 5

Google Public Sector

Today, Google Cloud is proud to announce that we have successfully submitted the complete OSCAL package for Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) to eMASS. This is a major milestone for us, as it represents our step forward supporting scalable compliance for Google Cloud and its customers. Open Security Control Assessment Language (OSCAL) OSCAL (Open Security Control Assessment Language) is an open, machine-readable language for representing security control assessments developed by N

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Strengthening the global balance sheet

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The economic, banking, and investment landscape may well look materially different in the next ten years than it did in the last 20. But the range of possible paths forward is wide, with the best- and worst-case scenarios implying sharply different outcomes, write Olivia White, Jonathan Woetzel, and Jan Mischke in Project Syndicate.

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Proactive vs Reactive Maintenance: Making the Case for Preparedness

Discover comprehensive strategies for optimizing operations and achieving cost efficiency! This document offers insights into efficient inspections, data-driven decision-making, goal alignment, and resource optimization. It empowers local governments and maintenance departments to streamline operations and ensure significant cost savings. From aligning maintenance goals with community needs to leveraging data for strategic planning, this guide provides a roadmap for smoother, more reliable opera

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Why Data Leaders Are Talking About Outcomes

GovLoop

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. That is, how do issues like data quality, data maturity, compliance monitoring and so on actually contribute to the well-being of a community or improve service to constituents?

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McKinsey Global Institute sees 4 possible scenarios for the economy by 2030. Only one leads to long-term growth

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

COVID-19. War in Europe. Inflation. Geopolitical uncertainty. Global business leaders have had a lot to deal with in the last few years, and they cannot assume the future will be any easier or more familiar. Rather, the economic, banking, and investment landscape of the next decade is likely to look materially different from the recent past, write Jan Mischke, Sven Smit, and Olivia White in Fortune.

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Engineering the Quantum Internet: Part 1 of Preparing for the Quantum Future

Government Technology Insider

Engineering the quantum internet has become a national priority for the U.S. government. Agencies are working towards uncovering the vast potential of the quantum internet, which is expected to revolutionize computing, scientific research, and data security. Continue reading to explore the concept of the quantum internet, its extraordinary capabilities, and the technological advancements driving its development.

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How a microregional perspective can inform strategy

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

When assessing human progress, granularity matters. What we see the closer we get to ground truth is often quite different from the picture painted at a national or subcontinental level, write Chris Bradley and Gautam Kumra in The Edge.

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Facility Maintenance Trends for 2024: What's Changing in the Industry?

This comprehensive article delves into the transformative trends reshaping local government facility maintenance in anticipation of 2024. From embracing smart technology for efficient management, sustainability's pivotal role to data-driven decision-making, workforce upskilling, and predictive maintenance strategies, each aspect is explored. Insights into outsourcing collaborations, digital twins, safety enhancements, and the broader industry evolution highlight the critical adaptation needed.

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Announcing Google Cloud’s first complete OSCAL package

Google Public Sector

Today, Google Cloud is proud to announce that we have successfully submitted the complete OSCAL package. This is a major milestone for us, as it represents our step forward supporting scalable compliance for Google Cloud and its customers. Open Security Control Assessment Language (OSCAL) OSCAL (Open Security Control Assessment Language) is an open, machine-readable language for representing security control assessments developed by NIST.

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How US government leaders can deliver a better customer experience

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Government agency services rarely match those of the private sector in satisfying customers. Our benchmark survey results offer insights into how government leaders can improve service delivery.

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Lawmakers try to keep kids from social media, porn

GCN

Skeptics doubt legislators’ ability to thwart tech-savvy teens.