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Meet the top 6 finalists for the 2023 Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

After the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, Roe’s innovative new approach—which focused on identifying and communicating technical risk and assuring a fuller, data-driven understanding of safety—changed the way NASA and the aerospace industry operate for the better.

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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As part of this program, they're spending three weeks basing their "mobile newsroom" in a library in the Okolona district in the outlying county section of Louisville-Jefferson County (the city and county merged in 2003). From " Why The Courier Journal is bringing its newsroom to your neighborhood ": Here’s the truth. We want to change that.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Therefore, the world community must take action immediately." When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. Major epidemics and pandemics (what is the difference?)

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. The UK Government's 13 policy U-turns do not reflect adaptation to dynamic circumstances, but inability to conceive what to do, how to implement it and how to communicate. I have taught it every year since then.

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. Meetingpoint also develops digital communications platforms for organizations, with a focus on civic participation.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Such programs and relatedly, business plan competitions, should really be run at the scale of a city (something I suggested to DC Main Streets in 2003, but they couldn't wrap their head around it).

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Fostering Financial Literacy in New York State: How's It Going?

Barrett & Greene

New Yorkers’ per capita student loan debt of $6,180 was 11th in the nation in 2021 and marks an increase of 335% since 2003. Department of the Treasury and communicated to all five audited agencies.