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Accelerating digital transformation to revitalize local economy and improve lives in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

At AWS, we are committed to supporting Japan’s digital transformation ambition by helping Japanese customers modernize IT and innovate securely at pace, driving sustainable economic growth. The program includes a systematic learning curriculum ranging from lectures on basic cloud knowledge to hands-on practical use of AWS for free.

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Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Doug Stockham co-founded Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) – a 501(c)(3) public non-profit – in 2011 to help companies take care of their team members in need. Doug Stockham co-founded Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) – a 501(c)(3) public non-profit – in 2011 to help companies take care of their team members in need.

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Emergency Management's Use of Social Media

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Eric Holdeman linked up with Hal back in 2011 when he was leading the effort to establish governance procedures for the use of social media. Eric Holdeman linked up with Hal back in 2011 when he was leading the effort to establish governance procedures for the use of social media.

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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. Where have CLTs been established?

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business.