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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

With more than 85 percent of its governments workload now hosted in the cloud, Bahrains approach offers insights for other nations embarking on their own digital transformations. In 2017, the government introduced its Cloud First Policy, which acknowledged cloud computing as a key enabler for digital transformation.

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Q&A: West Chester Expands Its Cybersecurity Initiatives

State Tech Magazine

has had a long career in local government IT. To gain insights into small-city governance, StateTech spoke to Mann about his technology priorities and how West Chester is preparing for the future. In 2008, the city made… William Mann, CISO of West Chester, Pa., By 1996, I was promoted to IT manager there.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

LULC datasets like this provide users with the ability to measure changes over time and inform critical decision makers in governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), finance, and industry who need trustworthy, actionable information about the changing world. The Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease (SEA-AD) Study.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. government, allowing them to borrow at near-Treasury rates, lower than any regular private sector company or bank could.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is supporting the Government of Pará, Brazil, in designing and deploying SeloVerde (Green Seal) , a cutting-edge tool to address climate change challenges and traceability in deforestation-risk supply chains. post-2008 deforestation). SeloVerde 2.1’s The vision behind SeloVerde and CAR 2.0 [the

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What @sog_ced is reading online: April 2023

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. office vacancy rate is 12.9%, higher than during the 2008 recession, and expected to worsen. 41kaSvZ U.S.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Why are CLTs a useful tool?

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