2004 Communications Development 
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 13, 2023
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. The development of Amazon EC2 in South Africa also resulted in significant economic impacts.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.
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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In the case of coronavirus, the medical profession has taken control of the agenda, yet most of the failings--and there are many--refer to civil protection issues: communications, logistics, coordination. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 29, 2024
which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer. I first heard this concept expressed by David Barth at a presentation in 2004. Their historicity. Also see " In Los Angeles, a Tree With Stories to Tell ," The New York Times., Streets/street trees as linear parks.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). It laid the groundwork for connecting civic assets.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. The idea that the point of government investment in community improvement wasn't to build dependency, but to stoke conditions to the point where private actors would continue to invest and improve on their own, without government assistance.
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