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Governments Must Overcome Execution Barriers And Fulfill Their Promises

Governments Must Overcome Execution Barriers And Fulfill Their Promises

I recently had the pleasure of congratulating Chris Fechner on his appointment as the new Queensland government chief customer and digital officer, a position announced by Minister for Digital Technology Mick de Brenni late last year. Chris leaves behind the role of chief digital and product officer for Service NSW, which itself was only created […]

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Facebook encryption: Should governments be given keys to access our messages?

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Home Secretary Priti Patel co-signed an open letter to Facebook Governments in the UK, US and Australia have asked Facebook, in an open letter, to roll back plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all of its platforms. Facebook, rocked by privacy scandals, responds that everyone has the right to

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Are Companies Taking Over Social Responsibility from Governments?

It now seems that many governments around the world are backing off from social responsibility. They no longer try to alleviate all the social problems in their counties. However, with a decade of economic growth, for-profit companies are taking up the slack. They now take more responsibility to solve these perennial issues in addition to

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US Government’s Huawei Ban Will Probably Go Into Effect Next Month

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Chinese technology giant Huawei was the second-largest smartphone maker in the world at this time last year, but its fortunes have taken a downturn in 2019. The US government hit the firm with a trade ban last spring, but a

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Partnership on AI: Governments should give AI researchers special visas to attend conferences

Governments around the world should create visa classifications especially for the international AI and machine learning community, the Partnership on AI said today in a newly released report. Such visa classifications should be made both for working professionals as well as students and interns in AI and ML in order for them to more easily

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Governments Shut Down the Internet to Stifle Critics. Citizens Pay the Price.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — When Zimbabwe turned off the internet during a recent crackdown, Obert Masaraure, a prominent government critic, had no way of knowing when it was safe to emerge from hiding. He waited one day, then another. On the third day he broke cover, hoping that a wave of arrests had come to an

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We are already ruled by “private governments,” and they suck

In a forthcoming book this spring, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson has advanced a critique of “private government,” the concept used to express the power wielded by large corporations in the labor market. For many workers, the force that most actively restricts their liberty is not government regulations but their employer’s rules; even gig economy laborers

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Report: Email, Twitter & SEO Increasing Citizen Engagement with Governments

The citizen engagement strategies working for government was gleaned from an analysis of over 4,000 Granicus government clients — email, Twitter and SEO are achieving success. “Better engagement translates into better outcomes for organizations and their priorities such as program adoption, participation in public meetings, or voter turnout, according to Granicus CEO Mark Hynes, in a

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How Twitter and Facebook Are Being Co-Opted by Governments for Control

Sophisticated automated bots are being increasingly used on Twitter and Facebook by foreign governments as a method to silence dissent and to target journalist, according to Sam Wooley, Digital Intelligence Lab director. “Governments including Turkey and Saudi Arabia but also within South America and Southeast Asia are making use of state-sponsored trolling as a mechanism

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As Trump Cuts Business Regulations, State and Local Governments Invest in Red Tape (INFOGRAPHIC)

As Donald Trump continues to cut Federal regulations, local and state governments are going the opposite direction by implementing new employer regulations. A new infographic by Paychex highlights five areas where state and local governments are adding layers of regulation on employers. The Rise of State and Local Employer Regulations Titled, “The State of Change:

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