McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 30, 2023
Direct losses from operational-risk failures are mounting, and in today’s volatile economic environment, consequent losses in share price are many times greater.
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 30, 2023
Why is sustainable procurement so important? And how can organisations use technology to accelerate their efforts? One of the biggest challenges companies face is designing and implementing sustainable procurement policies and overcoming a lack of crucial visibility across their supply chains. As global communities continue to tackle the climate crisis, greater focus has been placed on ESG standards and how organisations can lower their carbon footprint.
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The City Fix
MARCH 30, 2023
China’s transport CO2 emissions accounted for 11% of the world’s transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, following only the United States (21%), according to data from Climate Watch. And these numbers have been growing rapidly: The average annual growth rate of China’s transport.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 30, 2023
Despite a challenging landscape, China remains one of the most attractive markets in the world for multinational companies that can strike a balance between global and local.
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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.
Disaster Zone blog
MARCH 30, 2023
This is a priority for the city.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 30, 2023
For IT to function better, the business side of the company has to get more involved.
Public Administration Today brings together the best content for professionals in the public administration field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
GCN
MARCH 30, 2023
Even if early supporters are backing away from the immersive platform, states should keep thinking about new ways to provide services.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2023
" Crime in your area: Use of neighborhood apps is associated with inaccurate perceptions of higher local crime rates ," Psychology of Popular Media, January 2023 Abstract: Neighborhood apps provide real-time updates about events within communities, including crime. Prior work suggests that exposure to media related to crime can have a biasing effect on people's perceptions of actual crime rates, likely because of the availability heuristic.
GCN
MARCH 30, 2023
As state and local governments are poised to receive long-awaited opioid settlement funds, a recent investigation found many jurisdictions do not have a framework in place to publicly report how settlement money is spent—but should.
FedTech Magazine
MARCH 30, 2023
Most federal employees don’t understand what advanced analytics is at a high level and therefore have misconceptions about its advantages and disadvantages. Advanced analytics refers in part to the sophisticated techniques and tools used to interpret large, complex data sets through data mining, machine learning, predictive modeling and data visualization.
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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.
GCN
MARCH 30, 2023
Net employment in tech grew by 3.2% last year, with more than 9 million people now employed in the sector across technical and non-technical roles, according to new CompTIA research.
GovPilot
MARCH 30, 2023
Local health departments have thousands of public health records to store, from business inspection notes to health licenses, and everything in between. Without the right approach to health department data storage, local health departments may face challenges with data privacy, unintended communication silos, or inefficient processes.
State Tech Magazine
MARCH 30, 2023
Risks are on the rise for state and local governments as malicious actors target both the operational and personal data stored by agencies. Along with increasing attack volumes, organizations are also dealing with the challenges of limited IT staff and legacy tools. In combination, this trifecta creates substantial blind spots for state and local cybersecurity efforts.
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 30, 2023
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly using videos to fundraise, raise awareness, and attract new members or donors. But storing large quantities of video has traditionally meant purchasing and maintaining expensive hardware, while cataloging large video collections has historically been a time-consuming task. Also, improving the accessibility of videos, such as by providing captions and translations, can require hours of hands-on, expert-level work.
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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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2023
I have an extensive series of pieces about how DC could have used the reconstruction of a hospital East of the River to create a world class complementary medical education and biotechnology research and development initiative. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnolog
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 30, 2023
Despite a relatively small R&D budget, CSL has produced a steady stream of innovative products on diverse strategic platforms. The company’s R&D head, Bill Mezzanotte, explains how.
GCN
MARCH 30, 2023
Some lawmakers are trying to ban the app from government-owned devices, a move experts say will strengthen cybersecurity.
GovCast
MARCH 30, 2023
At the beginning of the year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) along with an AI RMF Playbook and an AI RMF Roadmap to guide the future of artificial intelligence development. Chief of Staff of the agency’s Information Technology Laboratory Elham Tabassi explains the framework’s collaborative development and how it incorporates trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use and evaluation of AI products,
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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.
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 30, 2023
Archangel is empowering telecare service provider organisations to act strategically – and act today – to make the most of the exciting opportunities afforded by digital technology The PSTN switch-off programme, scheduled for completion in 2025 but already well underway, is a major catalyst in driving change within infrastructure critical to the future of telecare services.
Center for Community Progress
MARCH 30, 2023
Picture a neighborhood with numerous run-down homes, vacant lots, and boarded-up buildings, grounds or structure overgrown with vegetation. What word comes to mind to describe those conditions? For many, that word is “blight.” Blight is a shorthand term many people use to refer to properties they perceive as problematic in some way: appearing unsafe, visually unpleasant, or a threat to neighborhood property values.
Government Technology Insider
MARCH 30, 2023
Across the public sector, boosting agility has been a priority in digital transformation and modernization strategy. Our colleagues at Financial Technology Today published this article exploring the benefits of enterprise resource planning solutions, or ERPs, for enabling speed, transparency, and flexibility. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a period of unprecedented uncertainty that has persisted ever since.
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