AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Another agency manages grass in or near parks. We learned lessons and tested them as we transformed services, implementing the feedback from users as we went along. Singapore launched the One Service app in 2014, two years after we began to try the new approach to development. Seems trivial, right?

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Managing insurance in the context of disasters, particularly flooding as one of the nation’s most common and costly natural disaster, presents enormous technological complexities.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Steve currently serves on the board of the Foundation for America's Public Lands, a congressionally-authorized non-profit working to support the mission and objectives of the Bureau of Land Management.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ". Purposeful neighborhood revitalization. Louis: -- " St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, there are few examples of its implementation, as police departments did mostly "zero tolerance policing" calling it community policing. Broken windows successfully implemented on the NYC Subway in the early 1990s. communicate that it's okay to commit crime.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. . -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?): Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

As the first municipality in Canada to implement online PBB, this will result in Strathcona County being more proactive, strategic and effective in program and service delivery. Congratulations to Strathcona County for their uniquely innovative and inspiring approach to implementing Priority Based Budgeting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany " (2019) A lot of academics criticize it, but I think they are missing the point. And I don't see things changing.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Importance of Measurement Tools For those managing programs—whether running a nonprofit or working in a government agency—the key question is, “How do I know my service is truly making a difference?” Though it’s possible to implement RBA without specialized software tools, it can make the process much more challenging.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. In short, cities are going to have to double down on urban design, placemaking, fun, and co-location.

Management 52

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Managing insurance in the context of disasters, particularly flooding as one of the nation’s most common and costly natural disaster, presents enormous technological complexities.

Education 52

Education Government Public Sector Constituents 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Titled “war is reshaping the Ukrainian state – for the better”, these few excerpts invite reflection from those either leading, advocating or trying to implement deep, lasting reforms in government and the public realm. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. reform movement.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 28, 2021

While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing as it makes the process of evaluating grantmakers more manageable, if you seek the most comprehensive list of potential funders, you may want to consult other databases in addition to GrantStation. Below is a YouTube video produced by GrantStation. Cost : FDO has more than one pricing tier.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Bratton implemented a strategy of “quality of life” policing, derived in large part from the “broken windows” theory advanced by the social scientists George Kelling and James Q. As crime dropped and police needed things to do, this was implemented in communities of color as "stop and frisk" which was later found unconstitutional.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. Advantages: Project management — Completing a dissertation, publishing research, preparing and teaching courses — all of these accomplishments require advanced project management skills.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

Elected Officials 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Enter the FHFA The FHFA implemented specific reforms in past years to keep the FHLBs from straying even further from their mission and towards profit. Interestingly, most of them can be implemented by the FHFA itself as the System’s regulator. The resulting FHFA Report has a long series of recommendations for FHLB reform.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

Public Administration 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. A loan with less risk coming from a family with lower-than-average income among FHA borrowers which has commendably managed its finances conservatively (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. Broadly, the GSEs began to act more like normal, competitive firms: developing better customer service, becoming more sophisticated in risk management, and heavily investing in technology of all types.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

Since Congress has not focused on conservatorship exit or any type of GSE reform for many years –the last real push was circa 2014– almost all of today’s speculation assumes, correctly in my view, that Trump II would have no choice but to proceed via administrative means.

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