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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

This origin story traces back to the founding of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) service in 2004, which is now regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of cloud computing technology. According to the EIS, AWS operations will add an estimated ZAR 68 billion more to South Africa’s GDP by 2029.

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Ep. 36 - Reopening Public Schools, Managing Inventory, and Implementing eBidding with Dave Pelletier and Kara Daniel

Decisions That Matter

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2019 Kara received MAPP’s most prestigious award the Linda D. Windsor Distinguished Service Award.

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Ep. 36 - Reopening Public Schools, Managing Inventory, and Implementing eBidding with Dave Pelletier and Kara Daniel

Decisions That Matter

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2019 Kara received MAPP’s most prestigious award the Linda D. Windsor Distinguished Service Award.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association.") (And because in DC area transit there are competing interests and agencies and they don't work together very well. " But also schools.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Order N-33-20 (Californians must "stay home or at their place of residence except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of the federal critical infrastructure sectors"); D.C. may continue to operate but must limit all in-person shopping to no more than 10 patrons per establishment"). 2019); Specialty Tires of Am.,

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

You can never stop (" MAIN STREET NICHES IN A MASS SALES WORLD ," Neil Peirce, 2004). My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management. That certainly seems like an overconcentration.