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Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

At the beginning of March, the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) cohort travelled to Loíza, Puerto Rico for their second learning exchange. When Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit in 2017, Puerto Rico’s vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated property crisis grew exponentially. Exterior of Corporación Piñones se Integra (COPI).

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

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. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. public sector customers.

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Generative AI as a force for good in facilitating cyber-resiliency in public sector organizations

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc.,

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Accelerating India’s digital future: MeitY empanels AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region for government workloads

AWS Public Sector Blog

Operational since November 2022, as part of AWS’s total investment of INR 1,36,500 crores (US $16.4 In 2017, AWS India became the first global CSP in India to receive full empanelment for its cloud service offerings after the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region completed MeitY’s STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) audit.

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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to a new report by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, poverty, rates of people without health insurance, educational attainment, job opportunities and overcrowding all worsened in those neighborhoods between 2013 and 2021.