Barrett & Greene

MAY 20, 2024

Not to be overly blunt, but we’ve grown sick and tired of hearing people complaining about how long it takes state and local governments to make dramatic improvements in the lives of their residents. But they rarely happen overnight.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The early stages of AI The evolution of AI during the pandemic, especially to power chatbots serving massive increases in citizen service demands, paved the way for generative AI as a new type of government tool. While generative AI is beginning to open new possibilities in government, its use also has vast limitations.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

State and local governments are highlighted in a new report that provides a mixed assessment of the effects of ransomware attacks on global organizations. Sophos’s The State of Ransomware 2024 report, released April 30, found that just 34 percent of state and local governments reported a ransomware attack the previous year.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

Citizens and businesses throughout the United States don’t necessarily think of interactions with their local government as being overly efficient or offering a world-class user experience. But it is becoming more and more challenging for state and locaI governments to provide these services in a cost…

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 26, 2024

The federal government reported an estimated $236 billion in “improper payments” during the most recently completed fiscal year (FY 2023). Such payments are essentially payment errors that can be the result of many things—include overpayments.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If Congress does not pass legislation to fund the federal government past midnight on September 30, it will trigger a federal shutdown. At this point, a federal government shutdown appears imminent. A government shutdown would adversely affect many of America’s 19,000 cities, towns and villages.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 2, 2024

Six months into the new Fiscal Year and following four continuing resolutions to keep the government running beyond the October 1st start of Fiscal Year 2024, Congress has approved all twelve annual spending bills, which have been signed into law.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2024

Local government CIOs must prepare for the sweeping change to be brought by generative artificial intelligence. But such is the power of this generative AI opportunity that I urge local government CIOs to consider a 10/20/30 plan to capitalize quickly on the shifts that are about to occur. CDW has developed a leadership approach…

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 24, 2024

has revolutionized research and reporting on all fronts, not just state and local government. For example, the website for the State of Texas offers a seemingly useful directory of government services , including information about licensing, vital records and business resources.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But cities should consider deeper (and not necessarily more expensive) levels of partnership with artists to support all areas of their governance. Partnering with artists can help local government achieve common and ongoing goals that often feel elusive. Cities are no strangers to supporting arts and culture.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 14, 2024

Each year, media outlets, businesses, and members of the public file hundreds of thousands of requests for government records on a wide range of topics—from consumer safety to national security. Their ability to access these records is protected.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. Making solutions available for other governments to adapt and adopt can accelerate digital transformation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. In the UK, 44 local government bodies—called councils—use an open approach to share expertise and pool resources to transform their web publishing platforms using LocalGov Drupal. website, launched in 2012.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 6, 2024

Over the years, we’ve chatted with high school and college students about the potential of careers working for state and local governments. Instead of trying to sell jobs in local government as though that had much meaning, do a better job at showing potential candidates all the genuinely exciting missions that local government leads to.

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Careers in Government

MARCH 23, 2024

The post Government Needs Healthy Organizations Too appeared first on Careers in Government. When leaders fail to address organizational health, they fail to help their agencies reach their full potential for performance.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Last week, NLC advocated in opposition to the likely federal government shutdown. Over the weekend, Congress unexpectedly changed course and approved a Continuing Resolution that will temporarily keep the government open for 45 more days.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 28, 2024

That’s why the Office of Management and Budget issued a March memo codifying the need for AI governance and establishing requirements and recommendations for how agencies should address specific risks of relying on the technology in their work, especially when it impacts public rights and safety.

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GovLoop

MARCH 4, 2024

“Hopefully, the government can save itself from itself, before it’s too late.” – Jason Briefel, Director of Government and Public Affairs at Shaw, Bransford, and Roth, P.C. He added that leaders need to “push to a better place, because government has a public relations problem.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance and find applications across various domains, the responsible development and use of AI systems has become a top priority for the US government. Enabling agencies to build and strengthen AI governance Robust governance is the foundation upon which responsible AI initiatives must be built.

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Government Technology Insider

APRIL 10, 2024

Recently, city and county IT leaders from around the country met to collaborate on policy, management and leadership issues surrounding the future of digital government. In short, to be effective, there must be governance mechanisms that establish performance metrics across all departments involved in delivering those 68 services.

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Careers in Government

JUNE 8, 2024

The post Essential AI Skills for Government Jobs & How to Develop Them appeared first on Careers in Government. If data is the foundation of this decision-making, data literacy, in turn, is the foundation of AI use.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

However, the use of consumer-grade messaging applications poses significant security and sovereignty risks for Australian government agencies, making it difficult to meet governmental information management obligations. This enables you to set up secure collaboration quickly and easily with established allies and emerging partners.

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GCN

JUNE 7, 2024

As the nation’s aging population continues to climb, states and the federal government are working to get plans in place to care for older adults. About 10,000 Americans are turning 65 every day.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Local government CIOs agreed that artificial intelligence has great potential for staff augmentation but noted that they are only in the early stages of testing AI use cases. Government employees spend a lot of time writing resolutions and other regulatory documents, but AI could speed up such work for them. “…

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JUNE 20, 2024

The federal government is our nation’s largest employer with more than 2 million workers. Equal opportunity laws and regulations are meant to ensure workplaces are free from discrimination. But investigations by analysts here at GAO and Office of.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) government transformation advisor, I’ve observed best practices that deliver success, and in this post, I summarize them.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

As state and local governments adopt cloud resources, they need to remain attuned to cyber resilience. To that end, Firewall as a Service can play an important role in defending against cyberattacks. This approach offers the ability to scale quickly as a network expands and to maintain a solid layer of protection with less hands-on effort.

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Local Government Government 121

Careers in Government

MARCH 23, 2024

In the government sector, AI is rapidly transforming traditional recruitment practices, offering unique solutions tailored to the complexities of public service hiring. The post Revolutionizing Local Government Recruitment: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Careers in Government.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 25, 2024

In this blog series our Google Cloud Public Sector leaders share their expertise on how AI is revolutionizing government services. We'll explore the ways our AI solutions are adaptive, secure, responsible, and intelligent – enabling agencies to serve constituents better than ever before.

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GCN

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Confidence in state and local government may have been waning in recent years, but there are ways communities can help to bolster their resident’s faith in them.

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