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Harvard Business Review
For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.
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Government Executive
Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, sending the Republican businessman to the White House as the first president-elect with no prior experience in government or the military.
Trump’s unexpected victory sent shockwaves throughout the country and the world, and will likely do the same for federal agencies. Trump has promised to institute a government-wide hiring freeze on his first day in office and to change civil service laws to ease the firing of disloyal workers.
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Route Fifty
Colorado residents soundly voted down a payment system to fund universal health care on Tuesday.
Amendment 69 would have established ColoradoCare and funded it largely through a 10 percent payroll tax. By 11:30 p.m. Eastern, a resounding 1,515,493 voters, 80 percent, were against the measure with 62 percent of precincts reporting.
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Government Technology
Governments today operate in an increasingly complex world, reflected in the volume and ubiquity of data produced by citizens and agencies, as well as the computing power to analyze it. In order to better understand and respond to citizens’ needs and allocate public resources more efficiently, governments must use predictive analytics to leverage this data and develop innovative solutions to contemporary urban challenges.
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Governing
Suppose every adult was automatically registered to vote. How many more people would actually cast ballots? Some states will soon find out.
Since Oregon became the first to create an automatic voter registration system last year, California, Connecticut, Vermont and West Virginia have all followed suit. Alaska has just joined the list. Alaska residents on Tuesday approved a ballot measure to allow voters to be registered automatically by the state. It is the first state where voters themselves created such a system.
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Campus Safety
Citizens in California, Massachusetts and Nevada voted on Tuesday to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, while the measure to legalize it in Arizona did not pass. Additionally, Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas legalized the medical use of cannabis. Maine also had a measure to legalize pot’s recreational use, but it’s still too close to call.
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Government Technology
Cherokee Nation Technologies has a unique partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA to support hurricane forecasting and damage assessment.
The collaborative effort has been using the unmanned aircraft Global Hawk to fly above hurricanes Gaston, Hermine, Karl and Matthew and in front of Hurricane Nicole. The unmanned aircraft deploy sondes, probes that automatically transmit information about surroundings.
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NextGov
Brace yourselves: Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and a host of new emerging technologies are becoming mainstream.
Fortunately, for the federal government, two new digital communities will coalesce around these burgeoning technologies in an effort to promote interagency collaboration, partnerships with industry and to exchange ideas about what works.
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