Federal Agencies Face Data Storage Challenge in Meeting Legal, Compliance Needs
Federal agencies face a daunting data storage challenge, struggling to balance scale, defensibility, and continuity as they navigate a vast array of modern data types, from chat logs and cloud collaborations to videos and digital artifacts. Traditional storage solutions often fall short, failing to…
#DataStorage #LegalCompliance #FederalAgencies #GovernmentCommunications #DigitalEvidence
If you look into the "comms" budgets of NZ public services, you'll find that every year they give huge pots of money to corporate platforms, to "promote" public service messages to kiwis using them. At the same, they've been considering making those same companies give money to legacy news media companies, instead of funding public interest journalism (FDNBB), and now they're cutting funding to public media.
This is absurd.
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#SocialMedia #PublicService #GovernmentCommunications #FDNBB
The Register: Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth . “A US Department of Defense watchdog has opened an investigation into its own Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, over his use of instant-messaging app Signal to discuss government business.”
Mike Waltz Used Personal Gmail for Government Communications: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-used-personal-gmail-government-communications-report-2053863
#HackerNews #MikeWaltz #PersonalGmail #GovernmentCommunications #EmailPrivacy #Newsweek #Report
So are government emergency channels still relying on Twitter as their primary social media alert channels?
Good to see that, despite its Cabinet falling, the Dutch government has been able to launch an official Dutch government Mastodon instance today.
https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685
#Netherlands #Government #Mastodon #Fediverse #Communications #GovernmentCommunications
Bijlagen: 1 afbeelding Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon. In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun. Een van deze alternatieven is een 'eigen' Mastodon-server die door overheidsorganisaties gebruikt worden. Hiermee zetten we weer een stap in onze Werkagenda Waardengedreven Digitaliseren. Algemene informatie over ons ministerie: @minbzk
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