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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Capacity building and training Governments provide training programs, educational resources, hackathons, labs, incubators, and test beds to build digital literacy and technical skills among public sector employees, businesses, and citizens.

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Insights from a leading researcher-practitioner partnership, between Stanford University and San Francisco’s school district: An interview with Laura Wentworth, California Education Partners – Episode #161

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Launched in 2009, the partnership matches researchers from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education with district leaders to create research projects to directly inform the school district’s work in terms of policies, practice and scholarship to maximize student outcomes. To learn more, we are joined by Laura Wentworth ( @laurawent ).

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Library’s Print Magazine Is a Community Must-Read! Here Is Their Secret Formula.

Super Library Marketing

Her passion for horses and a business prospect brought her to Ocala, Florida where she worked primarily within the public and nonprofit sectors before joining the library in 2009. The first issue of our quarterly WORDS magazine was in the spring of 2009 before I joined the library system,” recalls Karen. “I

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CFP: Academic BRASS Spring 2025 Issue (Submission Deadline is April 25, 2025)

A Library Writer's Blog

Academic BRASS is a newsletter--not a journal--that publishes issue-based articles and information for the general and educational interest of BRASS members and academic business librarians. The Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee of BRASS is seeking articles for the next issue of its online publication Academic BRASS.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012. Whitson became the female astronaut with the most cumulative spacewalk time in NASA history. With over 665 days in space overall, Dr. Wilson holds the US record for most cumulative time in space.

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Creative Placemaking in Braddock, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

In 2009, the nonprofit Greater Valley Community Services opened their doors in a former Salvation Army building. In 2023, GVCS started a community garden program to grow fresh food, provide employment and education opportunities, and help connect kids to where their food comes from.