AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. In Varnado’s estimation, custom development was key. When a natural disaster strikes. “In

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education. Providing all Singaporeans with seamless access to skills development resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. Develop an inclusive workforce with strategic DEI initiatives. Learn more about workforce development for the public sector.

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Let's Talk Parks

APRIL 25, 2020

I met Sean VanRoenn at the Colorado Parks and Recreation conference in September of 2016 through a networking event where young professionals were paired with a director of parks and rec. I think being in other entities for a prolonged period of time, seeing that development is so rewarding. Which is why I interviewed Sean.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it would have to be built into the experience. That would add some money to the till.

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Citizen Lab

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It’s clear that finding a balance between growth, development, and the environment is a key issue for local governments worldwide. Want to see how our clients tackle these issues and co-create solutions with their communities? We find ourselves consistently impressed by the projects launched on our platform.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2016, the government shuttered a large number of public schools across Puerto Rico, leaving hundreds of vacant school buildings as a result. Still other spaces in development: it will be the site of a future Bomba dance studio. The Loíza fellows all shared the importance of cultural preservation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Accelerating impact with the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program Since the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program launched in 2016, AWS has provided thousands of nonprofits around the world with computing credits and technical expertise. Once the chatbot went live, the program helped them affordably scale and reach more people with their message.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2024

He was very clear about the point of the arena being developing the area around the arena, which has resulted in over $3 billion in new development over about 25 years. It's also another lesson about planning and development. That's pretty amazing. This relates to my lesson about such facilities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

. == More entries about music performance as an element of cultural planning -- " Song remains the same ," 2011 -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part one, opera ," 2017 -- " Leveraging music as cultural heritage for economic development: (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

APRIL 25, 2016

City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. We have to make the effort in saying what would be the benefit to the residents of your municipality if Humboldt had this type of facility or developed these programs."

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Operated by applied science and technology development company Battelle since 2016, NEON was designed and fully funded by the U.S. NEON is a continental-scale observatory that collects ecological data to better understand our changing ecosystem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We need him to work with community advocates to pass citywide policies that prioritize low-income housing and opt the 2nd District into the mixed-income neighborhood overlay, which would require housing developers to ensure 20% of their units are affordable. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

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. Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The new system automates routine tasks and customizable workflows, providing HR professionals with more time to focus on strategic initiatives and employee development. The improved performance management system provides a solid foundation for ongoing development and improvement.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Here, I share her journey and tips to document community development activities. When it comes to community development services documentation, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. I recommended that this CRA officer go back and embed a process, so she gets what she needs to prove the primary purpose of community development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 13, 2023

In a city like Washington, where the height limit constrains development, old buildings tend to get torn down and rebuilt or renovated so that they can continue to command higher rents. Of course, she wrote that 60+ years ago.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

Mostly about urban universities, but the principles still apply to smaller towns. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown (..)

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GovCast

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Department of Education is undergoing a modernization journey that ramped up when CIO Jason Gray joined in 2016. Gray discusses the progress since then, which resulted in FITARA score improvements, cloud development, pivots during the pandemic and an increasing focus on data security to protect student and financial aid information.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The new right to buy legislation can help shift the balance of power in less well-off areas, where local development has too often meant more betting shops or fast food outlets. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

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Policy Chats

OCTOBER 2, 2020

from Georgia Tech in 2016. This is very attractive to industrial developers, particularly Amazon.” - Cesunica Ivey on the topic of the presence of warehousing in Southern California, and specifically Riverside and San Bernardino County. from Georgia Tech in 2016.

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Policy Chats

OCTOBER 2, 2020

from Georgia Tech in 2016. This is very attractive to industrial developers, particularly Amazon.” - Cesunica Ivey on the topic of the presence of warehousing in Southern California, and specifically Riverside and San Bernardino County. from Georgia Tech in 2016.

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Policy Chats

OCTOBER 2, 2020

from Georgia Tech in 2016. This is very attractive to industrial developers, particularly Amazon.”. from Georgia Tech in 2016. This is very attractive to industrial developers, particularly Amazon.”. Cesunica Ivey talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about environmental racism.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. It was probably easier for Louisville because Knoxville city and Knox County had merged some functions--but not the city and county--years before. Louis City and County (" St.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). Cases filed due to non-payment of rent are the focus of the brief and represent the majority of eviction filings. Conclusions and Policy Ramifications.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JANUARY 5, 2022

But as we make our uneasy progress through the ICT revolution, it is time to return to the old skills and develop our ability to understand the many languages of the visual and audible world around us. Rubinstein, Artur, 2016. References Forcellino, Antonio 2009. Michelangelo: A Tormented Life. Polity Press, Cambridge UK, 344 pp.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grey matter changes A 2016 study compared 34 college students with high mobile phone addiction scores, with 34 healthy controls. Disturbed OFC function is thought to contribute to the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour. The ACC is the region of the brain responsible for cognitive and emotional processing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

Goodwill now aims, in a joint venture with a Arlington-based nonprofit developer AHC Inc. , By contrast, a church in my greater neighborhood in Salt Lake is dissolving, and rather than sell their property so it can be redeveloped for affordable housing, they've sold it to a developer who will build market rate housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets.

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