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Microsoft social listening delivers more for open source intelligence 

Public safety officials hold a breadth of tremendous responsibility. From overseeing citywide events to responding to natural disasters to anticipating and responding to manmade threats, officials are constantly seeking innovative ways to get the information they need to protect their communities.

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Climate change: Its your move 

If any doubt remained, a spate of new reports makes it clear that climate change is real and our efforts to rein it in are falling short. In fact, a report released by a United Nations panel in April reveals that greenhouse gas emissions are growing faster than ever.

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Enabling police on the front lines 

Police investigations depend on data, and ensuring that the data is accurate and readily available to police in the field is a powerful way to make officers more productive and help them in ensuring the safety of our communities. Forces can no longer continually spend their IT budget on ‘keeping the lights on’, or delivering monolithic IT programmes.

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Giving industry a seat at the cybersecurity table 

Cybersecurity remains the overriding IT challenge for most agencies, and governments sometimes undercut their ability to secure themselves and their citizens by keeping industry at a distance in their IT planning.

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Bringing the human element to urban safety 

By bringing a new training model for proactive security to a cloud e-learning platform, trained citizens can become human sensors for improving urban safety.

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Microsoft Office 365 now available for California law enforcement 

State and Local governments continue to shift more applications to the cloud. This frees up valuable resources for more strategic, mission focused projects. The move to the cloud also enables more collaboration and ensures workloads can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, and from any device.