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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.

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Washington State Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

During his tenure, the State has successfully supported the response to and recovery from numerous major disasters to include the COVID Pandemic, the SR 530 Oso Landslide, the record-setting wildfire seasons of 2014 and 2015, and a host of devastating weather events.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

They deeply and fundamentally understand how to implement and utilize PBB, and their community has benefited tremendously from the city's continued and evolved implementation of PBB. We at the CPBB applaud your continued unique approach to implementing PBB year after year. Congratulations again to the City of Boulder, CO!

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Could a tech revolution save the NHS?

Open Access Government - Technology News

In 2015, we launched our first project with North-East Essex, covering around 300,000 patients. Unless we change the remit of our health service, the only way we are sustainably going to continue to deliver free healthcare without massively raising taxes is through technology. That’s how Consultant Connect grew.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. At that time, they designated 5 areas, invested a lot in urban design, public art, and sustainable mobility connections between the districts and Downtown. The state later developed its own program.