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Building a Culture of Cyber Literacy

GovLoop

NICE, which originated in 2008, focuses on helping government agencies, the private sector and academia build their cybersecurity workforces from within. NICE also coordinates with the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy , which promotes foundational cyber skills for all employees, in addition to supporting the pursuit of careers.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." It is by no means an isolated illustration.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Zarr is tightly integrated with other Python libraries in the open-source Pangeo technology stack for analyzing scientific data, such as Dask for coordinating distributed, parallel compute jobs and xarray as a an interface for working with labeled, N-dimensional array data. Zarr group containing one Zarr array.

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Doors Open" events were pioneered in Europe , and are when a community's culture organizations band together to provide a coordinated schedule of events, usually over a weekend, where people get free access to various cultural sites and events, many of which are not normally open to the public.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal

Center for Community Progress

I joined HCR in 2008. This limits their ability to coordinate with one another and rely on each other for peer learning. However, New York’s land banks are tightly coordinated through the New York Land Bank Association (NYLBA). I started my professional career as a planner, working at a Regional Planning Commission in Vermont.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences. Was this not a disaster?