The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, a review commission identifies barriers to licensure amidst Virginia's statewide teacher shortage, a U.K. architecture board recommends reforming educational requirements, and more.
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The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, a review commission identifies barriers to licensure amidst Virginia's statewide teacher shortage, a U.K. architecture board recommends reforming educational requirements, and more.
Cloud computing seems to be the way of the future in both the public and private sectors. But what is this technology? How does it work? And how can it help optimize day-to-day work processes for regulators? We explore these questions and more in this Insight piece.
The burden of outdated IT systems can create serious problems for regulators as workload demands increase and new security vulnerabilities develop over time. In this Insight piece, we explore how government agencies may go about upgrading their legacy systems to current-day requirements and why it is imperative to do so.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss professional licensing reform in Georgia, calls for AI regulation in the U.S., a recent influx of nursing applicants in Nova Scotia, and much more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, Kansas becomes the latest state to recognize the credentials of health professionals traveling from out of state to care for athletes, Georgia passes a new law requiring doctors to clarify their license types, NASCIO outlines strategies for state governments to strengthen their cybersecurity workforces, and much more.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss a new report outlining recommendations to strengthen the cybersecurity workforce in the public sector, an ongoing effort from GOP lawmakers to establish reciprocal licensing standards in Wisconsin, and much more.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. Paul discusses telehealth licensure in New Jersey during COVID-19, a recent flood of international nursing applicants in Alberta, a new survey from the Center for Digital Government (CDG) on digital transformation, and much more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, a new survey from the Center for Digital Government uncovers increased urgency for digital transformation among government leaders, the Western Australia state government pledges millions to boost the state’s skilled residential construction workforce, and more.
Our series on the history of cryptocurrency regulation in America concludes with a look at the 2022 crypto collapse. One after another, several major crypto firms filed for bankruptcy, causing Bitcoin and Ether to plunge in value. But even as many crypto founders faced criminal charges, the regulatory environment was still characterized by confusion and contradictions.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss regulation of psychedelics in Colorado, the fight against human trafficking in the massage industry, new pathways to teacher licensure in West Virginia, and more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, Alabama lawmakers consider legislation that would expand licensing reciprocity for military spouses working as cosmetologists and allow the state to join a new cosmetology compact, Gartner announces the top 10 technology trends for 2023, and more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, Pennsylvania senators grill Shapiro Administration officials over license application processing times, New Hampshire lawmakers move to strike down Governor Sununu’s controversial licensing reform measures, and much more.
Part 3 of our series on the history of cryptocurrency regulation in America looks at the 2021 Bull Run. During this period, which culminated in Bitcoin reaching an all-time high of $68,000, disagreements continued over the classification of Ether as a commodity and calls for regulatory clarity grew louder.
Part 1 of our series on the history of cryptocurrency regulation in America looked at the burgeoning years of cryptocurrency – mainly Bitcoin – and the attempt to regulate it through criminal enforcement actions. In Part 2, GovTech and regulation lawyer Sean Gellis covers the birth of the Ethereum network, the 2017 Bull Run, and the long crypto winter that followed it.
In the wake of a tumultuous year for cryptocurrency, governments around the world are making moves to regulate digital currencies. While recent headlines suggest a flurry of scattered efforts to apply rules to govern cryptocurrency and its exchanges, this is a continuation of a regulatory trend.

Crypto’s history with regulators, lawmakers, and enforcement agencies spans a decade, but it can be challenging to make sense of it all. In the first part of this series on the history of cryptocurrency regulation, Ascend contributor Sean Gellis explores how the two have intersected over time, taking us back to the origins of digital currency and a comprehensive timeline of early cryptocurrency regulation in the U.S.
Every day of the year, Ascend Magazine tracks new and ongoing news, issues, and events in regulatory licensing and digital government. We went through all the stories in 2022 to bring you the five biggest themes we saw throughout the year.

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The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy.
This week in regulatory news, major sports leagues join the effort to modernize Quebec’s sports betting industry, Kansas relaxes certain exam requirements for teacher licensure, and more.

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