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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51 Singapore’s Changi Airport Group is using its DIVA Digital Factory to help travelers comply with changing travel regulations, making them feel safer during their travels. billion US dollars in local infrastructure,” said Elsie.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

According to a Statistica report, 62 million metric tons were generated worldwide in 2022 as the volume of discarded electronic material has nearly doubled since 2010. Under her leadership, the city consolidated its warehouse operations, centralized all purchasing and contracting operations, and moved to a more customer focused approach.

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How will the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme change in April 2023?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Take social media as an example – where we were referring to using such platforms in hours per month in 2010, the average user today now spends 2 hours and 27 minutes of their day on them. Updates to the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme For this reason, cyber regulations have had to evolve. They are being instated for a good reason.

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Nationalization of banks came at the expense of local communities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

a tough but supple credit culture that he argues has been stripped, leaving promising businesses without hope of healthy funding, by rigid regulators captive to the Wall Street mega-banks. Banks have community reinvestment requirements, but I don't think the reporting is very good.

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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)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. mortgage originations.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. Of course, in the latest phase of urban attraction--post 2010--that's no longer the case. Mostly people moved into buildings that had been vacant.