AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Since 2017, AWS has worked with Halcyon to support talented social entrepreneurs around the world through the Halcyon Incubator. The 2022 cohort of the AWS Healthcare Accelerator also had an emphasis on health equity, focusing on helping startups harness the power of the cloud to make access to healthcare more equitable.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Remote work is here to stay,” says a 2022 Forbes article. Research by McKinsey & Company released in June 2022 reveals that 58 percent of Americans reported having the opportunity to work from home “at least one day a week,” and 35 percent had the option to work from home “five days a week.”. Constitutional context. Reynolds, Jr.,

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The first study, published in presentation format by Freddie Mac’s Market Insights Group, is titled “ Manufactured Housing 2022: An Untapped Affordable Housing Solution ,” and represents the 2022 Manufactured Housing Survey. The School of Government has a variety of related blog posts.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 27, 2024

To determine FMR, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses the median rent price of 2-bedroom units from the latest American Community Survey (ACS). For instance, the 2024 FMR was calculated using ACS data from 2017 to 2021. FMR fluctuated between $650 and $700 a month, before jumping 32% in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He said that incremental project development is much more likely than the creation and implementation of big projects based on a formal rational decision making process. From Encyclopedia Brittanica : Incrementalism was first developed in the 1950s by the American political scientist Charles E.

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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." The program gives guests at roughly 70 Seattle hotels a free pass to 60-plus shows throughout the month of November.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There also are certain communities that get a lot of news coverage, particularly those that are booming with development — new stores, restaurants or subdivisions. People who know someone on staff or share something in common with them or just know how to get our attention. Other neighborhoods get little media attention.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 18, 2023

billion in 2022. For example, employees can practice interacting with virtual customers in a VR environment in order to develop communicative skills. Real-life examples: Walmart and Sprouts Since 2017, Walmart has been using VR technology in its Walmart Academies, training centers that evaluate and train enterprise employees.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, where she oversaw the development of a new science and technology strategy for the branch.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The report, “ Lost Opportunities: The Persistence of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Northern Virginia ,” compares census data from 2009-13 and 2017-21 for Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the city of Alexandria to understand the social and economic changes the region has experienced over time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

Organizations like the MRSC or IBO provide a lot of deep research which is almost uniformly lacking when it comes to DC policy development and program practice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 4, 2024

Governments impute a likely increase in property value and tax revenue from a new development, but direct that increase to the developer as a source of finance, inducement, etc. Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 One of the biggest sources of funds for urban revitalization is tax increment financing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Transit oriented development is economic development. Complementary improvements for the transit network and economic development. Japan Railway Journal recently featured a new episode on it, " Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen: Half a Century since its inception. Watching the program was seeing TPAS in action. Wkipedia photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. The director then, Mark R. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's why Friendship Heights in DC isn't doing so great retail-wise (" Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ") and why DC can't really develop a strong retail center in the core. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to economic development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. 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).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. link] (accessed 21 October 2022). Moore-Bick, M.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Readers who want a summary of editorial malpractice can read Professor Graff's article (Graff 2022). Despite the development of increasingly powerful software to detect malpractice, it is proliferating as more and more scholars seek to publish their work. link] (accessed 30 December 2022). Graff, H.J. link] Stratton, S.J.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In fact, now it's slated for closure. -- " A positive deviance failure in Boston: Timilty Middle School ," 2022 What an incredible waste. Like my frustration with DC Government. After two terms, eight years, the reelected mayor is looking for innovative ideas? -- " I can't help but laugh.

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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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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

ACCESS Sonoma emerged in 2017 as a way to combat data siloing between various safety net departments , sharing data from various health and human services programs in a hybrid cloud-based environment. The county developed a smartphone app designed to help young people connect with services and resources.

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A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Digital storytelling is exemplified by the development of empowering personal and community-based narratives through openly-available digital media technologies. For instance, how do the six frames of the ACRL Framework, and related knowledge practices and dispositions inform the development of well-researched digital narratives?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. Thriving in unpredictable environments. 363) Social capital matters.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

From the first article: Alcohol killed 1,547 people statewide in 2022 — fewer than the 1,799 who died of overdoses. This table from the first article lists the leading causes of death in Colorado as of 2022. But it's a major oversight in a city like DC, where addiction is high, for example 461 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2023

Note that when I started out in revitalization work, DAG's Urban Design Evaluation Tool helped me think about how to approach proposals for new development in a systematic and "demanding" fashion. If we develop it right, and we include that impactful community program module, we can change the whole brand of Baltimore.”

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 13, 2022

The outputs are now being used to plan for future work including on-the-ground efforts, high-resolution imagery acquisitions, aerial surveys, in-depth mortality modeling, and planning for 2022 field season work. Box 2 shows NAIP imagery from 2017 with, with box 3 showing NAIP imagery from 2021.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mayor Erin Mendenhall and council member Dan Dugan swap out a 25 mph speed limit sign for a new 20 mph sign in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31 In 2022, our infrastructure also supported over 20,300 full-time jobs at third-party vendors in skilled professions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. People lining up for The Deuce. Transit in Las Vegas Bus.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Another element that could be included, in terms of comprehensiveness, is ferry and water taxi services, even though they are pretty niche (" Metrorail shutdown south of AlexandriaNational Airport would have been a good opportunity to promote ferry service ," 2017). More network improvements. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

AWS has helped ASTERRA overcome traditional on-premises infrastructure limitations and to accelerate the development of solutions for anticipating and mitigating failures, saving water, energy, and avoiding carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions as a result. As an example, the company chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy EO Discover.

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