Thu.Jan 26, 2023

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Paris’ Vision for a ’15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement

The City Fix

Until just a few years ago, the right riverbank of the Seine in Paris was an urban highway used by over 40,000 vehicles every day. Despite being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the road was either heavily gridlocked during rush.

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Parks and Recreation Workforce Development Trends and Opportunities — February Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

The February issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode of the podcast, we’ll be diving deeper into one of this month’s feature stories, “ Workforce Development Trends and Opportunities in Parks and Recreation.” To foster the next generation of park and recreation professionals in our beloved field, workforce development is an area that cannot be overlooked.

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Author Talks: Prepare your business for the cross-sector ecosystem economy

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

After years of client impact, two McKinsey senior partners write the playbook for leveraging disappearing sector siloes into a multitrillion-dollar ecosystem strategy.

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Dozens of US schools, universities move to ban TikTok

GCN

The social media platform is falling out of favor among school officials as the app becomes increasingly dangerous for cyberattacks and students' physical and mental health.

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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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Leaders in Land Banking: A Conversation with Adam Zaranko at the Albany County Land Bank

Center for Community Progress

We spoke with the Albany County Land Bank Corporation ’s Executive Director Adam Zaranko about affordable housing initiatives, the importance of diversified partnerships, and what’s coming up for the Land Bank in 2023. Adam Zaranko, Executive Director of the Albany County Land Bank Corporation The Albany County Land Bank recently launched an innovative program to turn vacant properties into affordable housing opportunities.

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New Hampshire could play ‘leading role’ in promoting blockchain, report says

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A governor’s commission said it is an “important technological innovation,” and recommended the state play a robust regulatory role to support its growth.

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Data index helps officials allocate opioid settlement funds

GCN

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a county-level social vulnerability index that officials can use to make data-driven decisions on how to efficiently spend opioid settlement funds.

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Life-centric banking with an analytics edge

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Bank Jago’s Peterjan van Nieuwenhuizen explains the value a life-centric banking approach has for AI banks.

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Federal Funding for Resilient Affordable Housing

NLC (National League of Cities)

Resilient housing, homes that are built or retrofitted to be energy efficient and withstand extreme weather events, have numerous benefits. Resiliency upgrades to housing increase long-term housing stability, improve human health, benefit the local economy, and are essential to ensuring the long-term stability of our communities.

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Street Smarts: Tampa, Fla., Puts Smart Technology in the Driver’s Seat

State Tech Magazine

Tampa, Fla., is examining how smart technology can enhance residents’ lives, including ways in which connected vehicle capabilities might increase mobility and roadway safety. As one of three initial U.S. Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program sites, the $27 million Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority pilot tested the technology from 2015 to 2022.

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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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Las Vegas Mayor's Symposium on Urban Design (poorly marketed) | Missing Middle Housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Suzanne saw this on Instagram (#mayorssymposium). There's nothing on the regular Internet. The focus this year is on infill housing, featuring presenters from other cities in the west. The Instragram hashtag has links to slides on the individual sessions. FWIW, these kinds of activities may help to assuage the opposition to such initiatives elsewhere, such as in Arlington County, Virginia (" Arlington lawmakers to consider a missing middle plan with no eightplexes ," Washington Post ).

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What Story Is Your Data Telling?

GovLoop

Let’s say defense analysts are trying to connect the dots around terrorist activity. Using various data points such as bank account numbers, location coordinates, equipment types and names, analysts can derive a cohesive “story” from the data that aids the mission. To do this, traditionally, analysts combed through data from various sources — spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, etc. — to manually input into an Excel file and then make connections between the fields.

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Ending homelessness in King County will cost billions, regional authority says

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As I say, we know how to solve the problem of homelessness. The issue is the money to pay for it, both immediately and ongoing. -- " Ending homelessness in King County will cost billions, regional authority says ," Seattle Times From the article: What would it take to end homelessness in King County? More than Seattle and county budgets have ever allocated.

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Clearwater Police Launch New Survey To Measure Public Trust

zencity

In mid-January, the Clearwater Police Department (Florida) began a new public survey to better understand both measures of trust and satisfaction of local residents with the department. The survey instrument, Blockwise , will enable the police department to holistically understand neighborhood issues while enhancing the department’s responsiveness to local community concerns or priorities.

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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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Healthcare Modernization Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Government Technology Insider

In a recent article from Future Healthcare Today , our colleagues explored how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and specifically the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) division, are embracing digital transformation and modernization. This is leading to improvements in user experience and healthcare access. With insight from CMS Digital Service Director Andrea Fletcher and SolarWinds group vice president of Product Brandon Shopp, we look at some of the challen

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Steadfast but nimble: CEO Christi Shaw on cancer treatment’s cutting edge

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Kite’s CEO discusses the company’s CAR T-cell therapies and what it means to put patients first.

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White House wants input on crypto tech R&D agenda

GCN

The feedback will inform priorities for developing digital asset technologies, including potential for a central bank digital currency.

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CISA: Create Guardrails for Federal Innovators

GovLoop

Innovation and cybersecurity often seem at odds. That is, until there’s a shared understanding of what problems employees are trying to solve and how security can enable a strong solution. If IT is being done outside the role of the chief information officer (CIO) it means that those who rely on the IT department are not getting the service they need, or maybe it’s too costly or perhaps as a mission owner or operator they don’t feel heard, said Robert Costello, CIO at the Cybersecurity & Inf

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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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How misinformed citizens put government personnel in harm’s way

GCN

What happens online can turn into physical threats.