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Government Technology
City court officials in Austin, Texas, used to spend a lot of time answering rote questions related to parking tickets, court dates and other issues. Then about two years ago, the city began using a chatbot to field these requests. The move made life easier not only for workers in the court system, but also residents. “They had a challenge with individuals coming down, asking questions about paying tickets,” explained Austin CIO Stephen Elkins during a panel discussion last week at the Smart Cities Connect Conference in Denver.
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Claims Journal
Chicago will sue actor Jussie Smollett for the costs of police overtime spent investigating his claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, which prosecutors say were false, a city official said recently. The lawsuit was being prepared after Smollett, 36, refused a demand by the city for $130,000, said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city’s Law Department.
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Risk.net
As the efficiency of operational risk management remains a top priority and pressure to maximize value increases, emerging technology could prove crucial. Nitish Idnani, leader of operational risk management services at Deloitte, explores how the op-risk management space could look in the future if it continues its current evolution, and discusses the potential impact of key technologies. The efficacy and efficiency of operational risk management continue to be a major priority in today’s business climate. The ability to demonstrate the value of op-risk management frameworks — with risk managers being increasingly expected to do more with less — is increasing. This pressure is creating an incentive for risk leaders to explore and embrace new technologies and techniques that can help improve their programs.
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Construction Equipment
Although Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) statistics show a decrease in on-the-job fatalities, transportation remains the most dangerous vocation. Total fatal on-the-job injuries fell to 5,190 in 2016 from 6,217 in 1992, a 16.5% decrease, according to BLS. These findings were published in the report 25 Years of Worker Injury, Illness and Fatality Case Data. The report reveals that transportation incidents were the leading cause of fatal workplace injuries from 2011 to 2016, accounting for 11,846 deaths. Violent events (4,701 deaths) and slips, trips and falls (4,576 deaths) were the next most common causes.
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Bank Info Security
As enterprises embrace strategies built around digital risk management, it isn't that technology becomes a less important conversation. Instead, it's more strategic. Zulfikar Ramzan, chief technology officer of RSA Security, outline's technology's role in the business path forward. In a video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco, Ramzan discusses the biggest aspect of digital risk, the technology challenge and how to strategize around digital risk.
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Business Insurance
Recent attacks on places of worship such as the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, have led to increasing inquiries about insurance coverage and a heightened focus on risk management, brokers and insurers say. While religious entities need to make sure they have adequate insurance in place, they should also consider disaster management and crisis response services that insurers may include in certain policies to help them plan for and mitigate these events, experts say.
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Governing
"Nuna, I’ll be back. I love you." Those words are etched in Cissy Strong’s mind when she recalls the last day she saw her younger sister, Rosenda. Cissy and Rosenda are Native American women who live in southern Washington on the Yakama Indian Reservation. On October 2, 2018, the sisters spoke briefly as Rosenda, 31, got ready to head out with a group of friends. One of those friends picked her up around 7 p.m., and they headed to Legends Casino on the reservation. Cissy has not heard from her sister since.
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Government Technology
It’s tornado season in Oklahoma; that time every year when Paula Burkes' neighbor shuffles the beloved baby portraits of her kids from the mantle to the storm shelter. For businesses, the seasonal fear, of course, is that they’ll lose their most precious asset: data. Oklahoma City-based Midcon Recovery Solutions has a precaution for that: two unmarked, double steel-reinforced, windowless concrete buildings in Oklahoma City and one in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, in which the company hosts the data of hundreds of organizations — from energy and telecommunications companies to insurance agencies and banks. For $100 a month to several thousands of dollars, companies rent rack spaces of 1 3/4 inches to 200 square feet.
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Route Fifty
Safety advocates and others are urging Congress to take steps to curb motor vehicle crashes, which kill thousands of Americans each year, as discussions get underway about reauthorizing a major piece of federal highway legislation. Federal figures show that 37,133 people — pedestrians and cyclists among them — lost their lives in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2017. While that figure is down nearly 2% from 2016, it’s still equivalent to about 100 people dying each day in traffic incidents.
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