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How London Uses Road Fees to Tackle Air Pollution and Inequality

The City Fix

More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Common Securitization Solutions (CSS), a joint Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae venture launched in 2013, supports a cornerstone of the American economy: home ownership. Born in the cloud Development of the CSP began in 2013 to provide a modern, single-family securitization infrastructure for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Announcing CitizenLab is ISO/IEC 27001 Certified for information security

Citizen Lab

CitizenLab is excited to announce we’re ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified! This is a huge milestone for us as it verifies that CitizenLab is following best practices for security across our offices, employees, products, and services, including our community engagement platform. So what does this mean for you?

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Is Your Organization Happy?

ASPA National Weblog

Engagement survey evidence supports this view. A 2013 survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management stated the relationship between co-workers was becoming more important than the one they had with their supervisor. There’s a lot of truth in that statement. We all know a disgruntled employee.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

That work has continued unabated since Daniels left office in 2013, and the rating now sits at 98%, according to the 2021 annual report. People: Adopting a Customer-centric Mindset A 2021 study by Deloitte notes a close link between employee engagement and customer satisfaction, citing the Indiana BMV contact center as an example.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes. But again, the Executive Branch doesn't seem to want to engage with it, and the Council doesn't push.

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EdTech innovator Sibme, powered by AWS, provides educators with AI-based instructional feedback

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2013, Wakefield founded education technology (EdTech) company Sibme as a way to use technology, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , to help educators access quicker and more reliable feedback. In order to increase engagement and hands-on learning among students, for instance, many educators work to reduce their teacher talking time.