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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 As an example, Rouse pointed to how the Local Government of Association of Queensland and Carpentaria Shire Council are leveraging AI for flood detection and monitoring of roads and public safety in the remote Australian Outback. billion by 2027. billion over the next 12-15 years.

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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the DOJ paper: The research produced an alternative interpretation of the link between disorder and crime, one that sees many elements of disorder as part and parcel of crime itself. Viewed this way, disorder and crime are manifestations of the same phenomenon.

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

For the 10 former employees who had criminal justice access, the failure to deactivate also permitted continued use of the National Crime Information Center and the International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network.

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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. One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking.

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But I was thinking that there needs to be some highly visible defensive cycling classes in public plazas and parks around the city, to build the understanding of how to cycle more safely. Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.

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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.