NGA ISSUE LIBRARY
Our nation’s Governors are dedicated to leading bipartisan solutions that improve citizens’ lives. Through NGA, Governors identify priority issues and deal with matters of public policy and governance at the state, national and global levels. NGA teams work side-by-side with state leaders to identify challenges and develop solutions. View NGA products below, filterable by content type and topic.
Improving Emergency Communications Through Governance
The most critical element to ensuring interoperability of emergency communications tools and a highly functioning emergency communications ecosystem is a ...
Integrating Population Health into State-Wide System Transformation: A Road Map for States
States are working to improve health, improve quality of care and reduce costs through multiple initiatives, including State Innovation Model ...
Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity 101: Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Right now, cyber criminals and foreign nations are probing state systems for vulnerabilities. Malicious actors exploit errors in software code ...
Q&A: Phishing
What is Phishing? Phishing refers to the criminal practice of using fraudulent emails to trick unsuspecting victims intodisclosing sensitive information ...
Q&A: Internet-of-Things
What is the Internet-of-Things? The Internet-of-Things (IoT) describes how commercial industries are including Internet connectivity in a wide range of ...
Cyber Liability Insurance for States
Perfect cybersecurity is impossible, and even the most sophisticated defenders fall prey to cyber attacks. This residual risk can potentially ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Response Plans
This memo identifies commonalities and differences among 32 cybersecurity incident and disruption response plans within 26 states. A cyber incident ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Budgets
Funding and sustaining cybersecurity initiatives is one of the fundamental challenges confronting state policy makers. A recent survey of states ...
Using Data and Evaluation in Policy Development, Implementation and Monitoring: Building Successful Policies to Reduce Prescription Opioid Misuse
Policy makers looking to reduce the abuse of prescription opioids face difficult decisions in selecting which of the many interventions ...
State Strategies to Reduce Childhood Hunger
Governors recognize the critical importance of ensuring that school-age children have regular access to healthy meals. Studies show that when ...
Promoting Place-Based Strategies to Address Poverty
Exploring the Governor’s Role Growing up poor can have lifelong consequences for an individual and for society as a whole ...
Building a High-Performing State Workforce Board
As many as one in three businesses in the United States struggled to fill needed jobs in 2015. Millions of ...
