ALN Newsletter July 22 2020

ALN Th@4 – this Thursday at 4 pm Eastern – Jack Kelly, ALN Board Member and Senior Fellow, chats about an initiative to improve international listing of ISO 55001 certification and compliance-oriented organizations and why it matters.


Ideas

Correct Policies to
Create Equality

“America’s national housing policy gives affluent homeowners large benefits; middle-class homeowners, smaller benefits; and most renters, who are disproportionately poor, nothing. It is difficult to think of another social policy that more successfully multiplies America’s inequality.” Link to full article by Matthew Desmond, Princeton Sociologist.


People

John Lewis
American Icon

John Lewis’s last public appearance was fittingly at the Washington, D.C. Black Lives Matter Plaza. His life’s work helped continue delivering on the founding premise of the United States – “all men are created equal.” Now, the work is up to us.


Sources

GAO

This year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has issued reports on Best Practices to Reduce Technology Problems on Government Projects and Fragmentation, Overlap and Duplication in the Federal Government. Both relate to improved asset management


reStructuring America is the 2020 ALN web forum of ideas, best practices, case studies and information that can be immediately useful to organizations. Starting on October 6, 2020 the web forum will feature programs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until October 22, 2020.