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Nextgov
Technology does not achieve performance breakthroughs in government, but an organization’s ability to embrace opportunities for change and enact a strategy does. In a discussion with public sector leaders about digital government strategies, it’s clear the mobile app strategy is a focus area, with high expectations of benefits for both field staff and the public.
So, why are so many government leaders struggling with how to translate the potential benefits of mobile apps into a strategy and deploy an operating model to realize those benefits?
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Governing
When College Park, Maryland, set out to build a bike-sharing network, officials envisioned a kiosk-based system with super-durable bikes and high-tech stations — much like nearby Washington, D.C.'s popular program. In fact, College Park, home to the University of Maryland, had planned to join the district's bike share, but the deal fell through.
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Campus Safety Magazine
If you had any doubt that hospitals, schools and universities have embraced video surveillance in a big way, the results from the 2016 Campus Safety Video Surveillance Survey should put those questions to rest. Of the more than 900 K-12, higher education and healthcare protection professionals surveyed, more than 9 out of 10 say their campuses have installed some type of video surveillance equipment. Of those, 79 percent plan on buying more camera systems in the next three years.
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Reuters
Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements on Wednesday after three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers opened fire and blew themselves up in Istanbul's main airport, killing 41 people and wounding 239.
The attack on Europe's third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey, part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and struggling to contain spillover from neighboring Syria's war.
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Government Executive
After the House of Representatives finally passed a Zika funding bill on Thursday — for $1.1 billion (less than the $1.9 billion President Barack Obama originally requested), much of it taken away from Affordable Care Act funding, and remaining Ebola emergency money. Given that, the White House has threatened to veto the bill. Which would mean still no federal funding for what Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called “the most difficult” emergency response the agency has ever had to do, at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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NPR
When Greg Burel tells people he's in charge of some secret government warehouses, he often gets asked if they're like the one at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the Ark of the Covenant gets packed away in a crate and hidden forever.
"Well, no, not really," says Burel, director of a program called the Strategic National Stockpile at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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9-1-1 Magazine
In the middle of June, 2016, a deadly heat wave settled over the entire Southwest creating rife conditions for wildfire. In just one day, the National Interagency Fire Center reported 15 uncontained large fires burning simultaneously across Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and California. During a busy western fire season it’s not uncommon for firefighting resources to be stretched thin due to increasing fire activity.
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Wicked Local Lancaster
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is urging residents across the nation to download and use the free FEMA smartphone app, which is designed to help families prepare for a wide array of natural and man-made disasters, and can help affected Americans recover, should disaster strike.
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