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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

When moving from on-premises to AWS in 2017, PNNL designed the Aether framework to embrace AWS-managed services and serverless technologies wherever possible, largely bypassing a lift-and-shift migration. Improvements will support technical transfer from PNNL AWS accounts to sponsor-owned accounts when required.

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS will review DTO fee waiver requests at the account level. Customers don’t need to close their accounts or change their relationship with AWS. AWS cloud computing has helped train 200,000 Canadians in technical skills since 2017. Once approved, credits will be provided for the data being migrated. The AWS Cloud is 3.6

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

This plan is comprised of eight priority areas and five pillars of sustainability, based on the strategic planning framework developed by current and previous councils. I invite every taxpayer to let me know if my approach to budget accountability is on the right track! Linton Delainey is councillor for Ward 6.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. The director then, Mark R. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions.

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Defining Community Engagement, Public Participation, Civic Engagement and More

Social Pinpoint

For Council decision-making to be an effective, transparent and accountable process, decisions are made by weighing and balancing community expectations with other factors”. Public engagement is any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision-making and uses public input to make sustainable and enduring decisions.