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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. The development of Amazon EC2 in South Africa also resulted in significant economic impacts.

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Lax Regulation Doesn’t Fully Explain Unsafe Buildings in African Cities: A View from Ghana

The City Fix

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005. Episode Transcript Available Here: [link].

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Cybersecurity – Protecting a global research university

Public Sector Future

 Hear her challenges, priorities, and lessons learned since starting her role in 2004. Blair and her team, the Information Security Office, protect the global research university from cyber threats that attack the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and systems. Hear Click here for transcript of this episode.

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Cybersecurity – Protecting a global research university

Public Sector Future

Hear her challenges, priorities, and lessons learned since starting her role in 2004. protect the global research university from cyber threats that attack the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and systems.?Hear Click here for transcript?of of this episode. Olivia Neal [host] |? LinkedIn ?|? microsoft/podcasts