Grants compliance can be a heavy lift for any organization. With the recent influx of federal funding for state and local governments, grants compliance has only grown more complex. Agencies must navigate uniform compliance requirements while balancing program-specific requirements or risk losing grant funding, designation as a ‘high-risk grantee’ and audits. Trying to achieve compliance with outdated management systems only limits...

This is an in-person exclusive briefing for Industry Insider – California members to hear from the IT Leadership team of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), one of the largest State departments with over 57,000 employees, a $12.8 billion total annual budget and an estimated annual IT budget of $422 million. CDCR manages the State of California's prison system with an emphasis on public safety, rehabilitati...

Agencies implementing a cloud-smart strategy understand the many benefits of multicloud adoption, which can include operational efficiencies, cost reductions, improved security and more. However, multicloud adoption is just one part of the solution and can introduce new operational challenges when implemented without a comprehensive strategy. To realize the benefits of multicloud, disparate infrastructure, applications and data must be federat...

The Center for Digital Government’s (CDG) Government Experience Awards are designed to recognize innovative projects and overall experiences for government agencies of all sizes across the country!We will capture results of constituent-first achievements and recognize the most innovative experiences.On this webcast, e.Republic’s Chief Innovation Officer Dustin Haisler, along with Senior Vice President Teri Takai and Surveys and Awa...

COVID school closures had a devastating impact on America’s schoolchildren. For the first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress began tracking student achievement in the 1970s, 9-year-olds lost ground in math, and scores in reading fell by the largest margin in more than 30 years. As the New York Times put it, "the pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading." The disruptions impacted communities unev...

Governments are turning to hybrid cloud to meet some of today’s most pressing challenges, and it’s working. Agencies nationwide have made major improvements to mission-critical operations like public service delivery and emergency response as a result of hybrid cloud adoption. But to ensure continued success, governments need hybrid cloud strategies that address cloud costs. As agencies embrace the efficiencies that come with cloud...

Budget leaders serving state and local governments and school districts face more demands than ever. In addition to creating efficiencies in performance and ensuring financial compliance, budget leaders are tasked with: Providing increased levels of transparency Meeting non-financial goals around priorities like equity Legacy budgeting approaches fall short of helping organizations meet these new demands. To meet this moment, budget leaders ar...

Open and timely communication between government and constituents is critical to community success. Whether for planning budgets, measuring program impact or enhancing emergency response, a dedicated public participation platform is the best way to identify and address community needs. Community engagement software can help agencies create a central database to personalize communications for hard-to-reach residents. And purpose-built reporting...

The road to an efficient and effective cloud system has never been an easy one — and now that road often passes through multiple providers as more agencies adopt a multicloud strategy. While leaders continue to turn to the cloud, technologists are falling behind when it comes to learning new cloud technologies. The gap between what leaders want and what technologists can execute creates foundational obstacles to multicloud success. Learn...

Most undergraduate and graduate students’ academic trajectories will feature prominent online components by 2023, according to chief online officers responding to the 2022 Changing Landscape of Online Education survey. These officials also note that neither exclusively face-to-face nor online learning will dominate – instead, most students will take courses based in classrooms with significant digital components or classes delivere...