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Government Technology
Social media has evolved from a luxury for government to an expected necessity, and that evolution has come with growing pains. The new conversation isn’t so much whether an organization should have accounts — it’s pretty well established that it should — and has shifted toward strategy, management and developing a consistent voice.
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Future Structure
In 1938, when there were just about one-tenth the number of cars on U.S. roadways as there are today, a brilliant psychologist and a pragmatic engineer joined forces to write one of the most influential works ever published on driving. A self-driving car’s killing of a pedestrian in Arizona highlights how their work is still relevant today — especially regarding the safety of automated and autonomous vehicles.
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Property Casualty 360
The start of the 2018 hurricane season is just a few weeks away, and this year, experts have good news, predicting a calmer forecast for the Atlantic than 2017 brought.
The Weather Company has released its first seasonal tropical forecast for the North Atlantic basin for the 2018 season, and this year, the numbers are closer to the Atlantic Basin’s 30-year historical average (1981-2010) of 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
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Newsweek
A major earthquake is destined to hit the East Bay region of California, and residents had better be prepared for what could be the most devastating quake in California’s history.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released a report on the “HayWired Earthquake Scenario,” a scientifically guided depiction of what would happen if the Hayward Fault shifts and creates a massive magnitude 7 earthquake.
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The Hill
The opioid epidemic is devastating communities, breaking families apart, and taking lives across America.
In 2016, more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, more than the total number killed during the Vietnam War. About two-thirds of those overdoses involved opioids. Drug overdoses are the top cause of accidental death in America and the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.
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By Ryan Clark
 With people today working further into their lives and retiring later, the workforce has begun to age noticeably. This leads to real situations in which younger managers are tasked with supervising direct reports who are much older than they are. In an era when corporate culture and office sensitivity are in the headlines, it's important that managers of older employees be made aware of the pitfalls, challenges and worrisome dangers the job may entail.
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Governing
The last time the federal minimum wage increased, Barack Obama was only a few months into his first term as president and the country was mired in the depths of the Great Recession. Nearly nine years later, a small segment of the workforce is still earning $7.25 an hour or less.
The latest Labor Department estimates indicate that just over 1.8 million hourly workers were paid at or below the federal minimum last year.
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Route Fifty
Governments should back up data at a minimum of three locations and maintain a geospatial database of critical infrastructure ahead of disasters, according to the CIOs of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Maria devastated both territories’ infrastructure in September, while laying bare the flaws in their disaster recovery plans.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Woe the fate of the poor urban designer. Forced to wander the streets of our cities, painfully alive to all of the errors of our design history, the sort of things that most of us walk past with barely a glance. In this series of articles, we will be looking at a few of the things we have been getting badly wrong when designing our cities, and that we are now scrambling to rectify. That will mean throwing light on a series of often unglamorous details and the role they play in our environment.
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By Christina Thielst
 Social and mobile health tools are making a significant impact on consumer health and wellness. They have played an important role in efforts to break care processes free from the confines of hospital and clinic walls, helping people to understand and act upon relevant information for better health. One successful example is Sober Grid, a free smartphone app that recently began predicting when someone is going to relapse with drug or alcohol use.
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Government Executive
Once a fringe initiative, diversity in the workplace is now taboo for companies not to promote.
Countless studies show that diverse teams are more innovative, better at making decisions, and literally boost bottom lines. Yet more often than not, diversity programs become window dressing: buzzwords posted on websites and exchanged in boardrooms to make organizations (and their executives) appear progressive, without actually investing the time, money, and experimentation necessary to drive long-lasting change.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Limited budgets and red tape have made the job of fighting crime more difficult. But in the face of more sophisticated criminal attacks, we need more sophisticated forensic tools. There is a need to make industries immune from cyberattacks. It is especially tough since criminal enterprises have adopted new and emerging technologies faster than law enforcement. As a result, forensic technologies are rapidly evolving.
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