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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

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Data sovereignty—having control over digital assets—is increasingly important to customers, especially as regulations evolve. AWS will work closely with partners to help customers navigate changing regulations and meet digital sovereignty requirements on AWS without compromising capabilities. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 The AWS Cloud is 3.6

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The resulting report , which focused primarily on how these homes were purchased, illustrated the complexity involved in consumer awareness of options and understanding of the process, varying finance options, and the context of different rules and regulations at all levels of government.

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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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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Here in Salt Lake City, a local sustainable mobility group advocated for a dedicated bus lane on a street with only four lanes, for a bus line with fewer than 2,400 riders per day. So they evade real scrutiny. That's crazy.

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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

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. Basically as the city has increased its attractiveness, the highest income groups "pioneer" an increasing number of neighborhoods. gentrification crisis?

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case.