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Highlights from the 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2012, AWS has invested more than AU$9.1 With cloud as the new operational foundation, governments can fully embrace innovation to revolutionize constituent services and operational effectiveness. Continue reading to learn more about the Canberra Symposium keynote session. billion by 2027. billion over the next 12-15 years.

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

Episode Two: Inappropriate Computer Access - We don’t recall any performance auditors complaining to us about the frustration they must feel when they find similar operational shortcomings repeated year after year. For those individuals, the cutoff only occurred between a year and 25 months after they left government, according to the audit.

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How the public sector is working with Google Cloud to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of citizens

Google Public Sector

The City of Los Angeles , for example, is leveraging the cloud to design systems that visually share public safety and community services information during natural disasters to ensure citizens can easily find evacuation shelters, sandbag stations, local hardware stores, and real-time weather reports.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. I suggested a system for secure bicycle parking operating at the metropolitan scale a few years ago, based in part on the Parkiteer model in Melbourne. Sure there is bicycle parking, but most of it isn't secure.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Public safety: Without a safe place to deposit their money, unbanked people are more likely to be victims of crime because they often carry large sums of cash with them or keep cash in their homes. Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. It operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts. Do a food fermentation operation. On site baking operations.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.