Summer Camp Programming
MAY 1, 2024
SHOW NOTES Curt and Chris explore engaging activities at camp after the sun sets. They share personal stories, offer practical tips for implementing classic nighttime activities like kitchen raids, night swims, and campfire cooking, and offer some more innovative and memorable ideas. HOSTS CURT JACKSON CHRIS KALLAL The post SCP 205: After Hours Activity Ideas for Camp first appeared on Summer Camp Programming.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MAY 3, 2024
Narcissism. Overconfidence. Low EQ. Why do we persist in selecting for leadership traits that hamper organizational progress—and leave the right potential leaders in the wrong roles?
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GCN
MAY 1, 2024
The Affordable Connectivity Program will pay some households just $14 in May, down from $30. Unless Congress acts on a $7 billion extension bill, it will run out of money at the end of the month, plunging some families, supporters warn, into “digital darkness.
NLC (National League of Cities)
MAY 3, 2024
By: Sigvanna Tapqaq, Nome, AK, Common Council Member Leadership Circle Member/ NLC Local Indigenous Leaders (LIL) Introduction May 5th is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIW) Day, most widely celebrated across the U.S. and Canada.
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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.
Homeroom
APRIL 29, 2024
BY: Montserrat Garibay, Assistant Deputy Secretary & Director for the Office of English Language Acquisition It was August 1992 in Austin, Texas, when I first walked into a U.S. public school. I still remember how scared and nervous I was. I didn’t speak a word of English. I recall people speaking and asking me questions Continue Reading The post Multilingualism, my Superpower!
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MAY 3, 2024
Happy early Star Wars Day! A not so long time ago (April), in a galaxy nearby (ours), the Jedi Council (GAO) issued a first-of-its-kind estimate of fraud across federal programs and operations. We estimated that the federal government could lose.
Public Administration Today brings together the best content for professionals in the public administration field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
GCN
APRIL 29, 2024
COMMENTARY | Extreme heat and new technologies have created less obvious but equally potent new dangers in workplaces. More state and local action can address ongoing and new threats.
NLC (National League of Cities)
APRIL 29, 2024
By: James Crowder, Annie E. Casey Foundation April is Second Chance Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of the unique barriers faced by people with criminal records and the tremendous potential they have to contribute to neighborhoods, cities, and civil society more broadly.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
The government is an attractive target for cybercriminals and nation-state actors employing Kerberoasting attacks due to agencies’ reliance on Microsoft’s Active Directory for user authentication and authorization. Those agencies also manage vast amounts of sensitive data while faced with challenges related to legacy systems, bureaucratic processes and budget constraints, so it can be difficult for them to maintain adequate cybersecurity defenses against identity-based attacks such as Kerberoast
Open Access Government - Technology News
MAY 3, 2024
The recent ransomware attack on Le icester City Council is a stern reminder of how vulnerable UK local councils are to increasing cyber threats. How should local councils defend themselves? The council not only experienced a massive 1.3 terabyte data theft but also saw its support services shut down , including child protection, adult social care safeguarding, and homelessness.
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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.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MAY 3, 2024
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, discusses the impact generative AI will have on software development, the evolution of the developer’s role, and the opportunity to accelerate innovation.
GCN
MAY 1, 2024
Ridership on the systems in cities big and small after the pandemic is stronger than ever, and bike-share operators say the electric devices are a big reason why.
Super Library Marketing
APRIL 29, 2024
Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library My maternal grandfather was small (he stood about 5 feet 3 inches tall) but mighty. He returned from World War Two to a wife and four children. He made ends meet by farming, driving a milk delivery truck, and working on a road construction crew. He taught me to build fences, crack walnuts with a vise, and drive a tractor and a car.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 1, 2024
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s February release of version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework is a milestone in the evolution of cyber standards, expanding them to encompass all sectors. CSF 2.0 is the first major overhaul of the framework — a published set of guidelines, best practices and standards for reducing organizations’ cyber risk first introduced in 2014 — which widens its scope beyond critical infrastructure entities to all entities.
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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.
AWS Public Sector Blog
MAY 1, 2024
Renaissance Learning is a global leader in the pre-K–12 education technology (EdTech) space. Renaissance delivers its products to 16 million students across the world, and its digital solutions are used in more than one-third of US schools and 100-plus countries. As part of its cloud consolidation strategy, Renaissance decided to migrate DnA , its standards-based assessment creation and administration solution, from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MAY 3, 2024
The contact center emerged as an early use case for generative AI—with varied success. Organizations can learn from early adopters and think about their adoption strategies across three horizons.
GCN
MAY 2, 2024
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has reduced hiring times for frontline workers from nine months to just a few weeks. Agency leaders hope a bigger staff will help improve the lives of kids it serves.
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MAY 2, 2024
Historically marginalized and underserved communities often face greater socioeconomic and environmental burdens such as disease, poverty, and pollution. Some communities are exposed to higher levels of air pollution from diesel exhaust, live closer.
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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.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 3, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advanced regulations that will guide critical infrastructure companies and other organizations in required reporting of cyber breaches and ransomware incidents with its recent notice of proposed rulemaking. These proposed rules, complying with the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, aim to address a number of challenges that have made improving organizations’ overall cybersecurity posture difficult.
Homeroom
APRIL 29, 2024
Less intelligent. Less capable. Less likely to succeed. These are just some of the harmful stereotypes commonly associated with students who choose to enroll in a community college. Despite those enrolled comprising over 8.9 million undergraduate students and 1.6 million public high school students, the stigma surrounding community college stubbornly remains.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MAY 3, 2024
Do you tend to speak up or play it safe? Author Elaine Lin Hering shares how you can build the confidence to find—and use—the voice you’ve learned to bury.
GCN
APRIL 30, 2024
COMMENTARY | Spurred by strong local support and successful conservation ballot initiatives, elected leaders are collectively building a menu of policies that could turn the tide of nature loss.
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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
State Tech Magazine
APRIL 29, 2024
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appointed Katie Savage as the state CIO in January 2023. Previously, Savage served as director of the Defense Digital Service. She began her career as an urban planner, producing an open data portal for the city of Chicago prior to going to lead the City Tech Collaborative, a public-private partnership. Her background gives her deep insights into how to best use data in government as she strives to improve citizen services.
Google Public Sector
MAY 2, 2024
Sullivan County, New York, is home to the Catskills Mountains. It’s a great place to live, play, and raise a family, and we have a robust group of visitors and tourists. We are also a fairly small county. Being on the cutting edge of technology isn’t typically something people associate with local governments, and I’m proud of Sullivan County for consistently innovating.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
Consensus on where agencies should start their artificial intelligence journeys is shifting as federal officials continue to evaluate how the technology can work for them. Some agencies already use AI to fight fraud. Work with AI at the Department of Defense ranges from identifying cybersecurity threats to analyzing data from drones. Current AI use cases are “flattening” as the technology evolves, and increasingly, the ability to scrape data from documents and databases for analysis is table sta
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MAY 3, 2024
Deep learning is a type of machine learning that is more capable, autonomous, and accurate than traditional machine learning.
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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.
GCN
MAY 1, 2024
COMMENTARY | Incidents like the Baltimore bridge collapse should motivate local leaders to think carefully about risk management, prevention and mitigation.
State Tech Magazine
APRIL 30, 2024
This summer, the commonwealth of Massachusetts will host the Massachusetts AI Summit, where leaders will announce artificial intelligence task force recommendations, share the results of AI pilots and communicate lessons learned from an AI sandbox, the government’s top IT official announced Monday during the midyear conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Homeroom
APRIL 29, 2024
Update about federal student loan servicing The U.S. Department of Education, including its office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), is constantly working to improve the student loan borrower experience. FSA has worked tirelessly to give borrowers the information and support they need to take advantage of all of the benefits of the student loan repayment Continue Reading The post Update for MOHELA student loan borrowers appeared first on ED.gov Blog.
FedTech Magazine
APRIL 30, 2024
Agencies have made significant and enduring shifts in how they use technology to enable remote and hybrid work. Videoconferencing and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and upgraded microphones and monitors in conference rooms have all become standard. A recent Government Accountability Office report highlights both the continuing benefits of telework and the challenges that agencies face, plus best practices that they should follow as they continue to adapt how they operate.
Speaker: Alan Kavanaugh, BA, CRM, CCPI Director of Loss Control & Risk Management
This session is designed to unveil the transformative potential of digital solutions in reshaping conventional practices, offering a roadmap towards greener and more efficient facilities regardless of municipality size. Attendees will learn: Insights into cutting-edge trends and strategies in sustainable facility management. Practical knowledge to effectively incorporate digital solutions for operational efficiency.
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