Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New approaches are needed to keep data safe, AJ Thompson , CCO of Northdoor Plc argues. With the threat to public sector data seemingly increasing all the time, in terms of the number of attacks and the level of sophistication associated with them, the sector must find new ways of keeping data secure.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

This brings us to Slab ( www.slab.com ), which is the focus of this post. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. You can read about several use cases for Slab on Slab’s website. Overview of Slab. Business ($12.50

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Retailers take different tacks on store size ," Supermarket News ), based on Fred Meyer, and like Target and Walmart, which adds general merchandise to the grocery store. They also bought the New York City based Murray's Cheese store and ported it as the specialty cheese section to their stores across the country.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It seems like good managers can be hard to find, which leaves us desperate for any help we can get when dealing with a bad boss. Remarks like this will leave your boss feeling like the entire team is against him and that he can do nothing right by any of you. Better to speak up early so the conflict doesn’t become unwieldy.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The job landscape looks so different in mid/post-pandemic world, and the typical ways of volunteering and shadowing may not be available like they used to be. OpenToWork – Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job We’ve been getting a lot of questions about finding work right now. The Show [Transcript].

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 22, 2019

In 2011, when I was approached by Elsevier about establishing the IJDRR, the first question was, "Is there a need for a new journal in this field?" How many times has one been asked to review a manuscript for a journal, only to find that one learns nothing new from it? Where is the time to read the literature?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

A tsunami is usually nothing like the breakers that surfers ride. I sent my greetings and respects to my Japanese colleagues and spent the day teaching my students about the event and its aftermath. The affected area is the T?hoku hoku region of northeast Honshu island. Photograph albums, statuettes, wedding pictures, cameras, even clothes.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 17, 2022

Building code enforcement and other measures to prevent and address property vacancy often seem like the least of the community’s worries. Since rural communities tackling their problem properties may well be attempting to “do something with nothing,” their approaches cannot be overly resource intensive. In this chapter, Ann M.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

While we can’t direct you to an easy solution to help your nonprofit survive these challenging times, below are several resources—including links to funding opportunities and foundation news—related to COVID-19 and the health, social, and economic challenges it has unleashed. The third point is perhaps the most important.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 5, 2019

It seems to enable them to make progress with their collective enquiries. Pioneer researchers discover and propose a new approach that appears to be able to solve problems that the old way could not. Pioneer researchers discover and propose a new approach that appears to be able to solve problems that the old way could not.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Even though it may not have been that long since you stopped working on the first section, any gap between the time you last worked on it and the time you conduct your final review is better than nothing and can help you spot errors and awkward phrasing. It isn't easy to edit your own writing. Eight Tips for Editing Your Writing 1.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I interviewed friends who had left about their new work life, and then interviewed people they knew who had left. That they rested and cultivated new or forgotten hobbies, got to live in the cities they wanted to, with their partners, and didn’t have to plan their holidays around academic conferences.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. A TMD is the way to go, focusing on everything, not just parking, which is more typical. A TMD is the way to go, focusing on everything, not just parking, which is more typical. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

To help new grant writers, below is a list of several strategies you can employ to make the budgeting process easier and more accurate. Assigning one person to be the lead for the entire proposal is not necessarily a bad thing. It can help ensure that the budget reflects the latest decisions regarding the project’s activities.

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Policy Chats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

She's authored several clean energy reports and has been quoted widely in the media including MSNBC, NPR, BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and dozens of local and trade outlets. It is just the single most abundant natural carbon free resource on the planet. So we've already figured it out. to 3:30 p.m.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An article, " Community Planning Lab projects offer solutions to Summit County’s problems ," in the Park Record discusses Summit County's relatively new Community Planning Lab initiative. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record. What distinguished the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program program is that it was citizen-led.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion in increased bridge toll revenue for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to purchase new rail cars. It seems pretty clear to us what the word “independent” means, and we’ve been writing about the importance of independence of oversight bodies for years. But the senator still encountered resistance to unshackling the IG.

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Policy Chats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

She's authored several clean energy reports and has been quoted widely in the media including MSNBC, NPR, BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and dozens of local and trade outlets. It is just the single most abundant natural carbon free resource on the planet. So we've already figured it out. to 3:30 p.m.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 30, 2023

With the scenarios above, your core job responsibilities will have nothing to do with grant writing or seeking grant funding. But one thing we haven’t done is write about how to become a grant writer. We’re going to cover this topic now, sharing three different paths. Three Common Paths to Becoming a Grant Writer 1.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One example includes deploying new mechanisms to fill financing gaps for manufactured housing, Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), and smaller multifamily properties. O'Regan pointed to the piloting of new financing tools at the federal level as the most promising aspect of this category. million possible ADUs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From around 1975 to the late ‘90s, the MH share of new single-family production averaged about 20%. 5 In response, MH supporters have repeatedly pushed for policies to grow MH so that it represents a larger share of new housing production. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 18, 2022

Today we have a great show for you featuring two guests who developed a new comedy docuseries on Netflix that shows what our government does behind the scenes to make our lives better. The G Word” is a comedy docuseries on Netflix hosted by comedian Adam Conover of “Adam Ruins Everything.”. Pulling back the curtain of our federal government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2022

They just don't seem to have a bias for action. This is a reprint from last year: Annual household energy resilience planning: a new imperative? This is a reprint from last year: Annual household energy resilience planning: a new imperative? The historic storm caused over $50 billion in damage , more than any disaster in U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2022

He is incredibly prolific and a careful observer and documenter of the public space, and is especially active in DC, Baltimore, and New York City. One of the people I follow on Flickr is the photographer Elvert Barnes ( Elvert Barnes on the web.) More about this later.) Image courtesy of the Times Square Alliance. So here goes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This new Region will provide more options for Canadian data residency, and it will reduce latency for customers in western Canada. This new Region will provide more options for Canadian data residency, and it will reduce latency for customers in western Canada. Since our launch here in 2016, we’ve invested $1.4B

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 22, 2017

I’ve published nothing on the issues for quite awhile. This isn’t new, but the percent is shifting toward the never-married. The one that seems most certain is more use of contraceptives, especially the maximally-effective long-acting, reversible kinds. Posts on single motherhood consistently rank among my weekly top-10 viewed.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

In political science, such a pattern seems already apparent. Such use of voice may create concerns of a political public administration that were leveled against the New Public Administration. Here are what seem to me to be a list of pressing issues that we can tackle. It means using your voice.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials. Puerto Rico being hit hard by new monster Hurricane. Not least of these is President Trump. 6:34 AM – Sep 8, 2017. ” [iii].

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As a result of the change in power dynamics between traditional media and social media (new media) with emergence of the Internet, activist groups advocating social change have strained relationships with traditional mainstream media, yet still social movements still rely on mainstream media for legitimacy of actions (Gitlin, 1980; McChesney, 1999).

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