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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) Governments collaborate with private sector companies, industry associations, and academic institutions to develop joint initiatives and projects to advance digital transformation. Spain launched the Aporta Initiative in 2009 to open public information and promote data-based development of modern services.

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Are combination inspectors a good choice for municipalities?

American City & Country

condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017. The struggle is in the balancing act between safety, regulation and economic development, as well as the tendency for lessons learned from past disasters that fade with time.

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Honoring National Day of Racial Healing — Episode 127

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Launched in 2017, this day originated as part of the WK Kellogg Foundation’s national Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation efforts. Today, January 17, is National Day of Racial Healing - a call to action for racial healing for all people.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

He most recently served as the 11th Commander of United States Special Operations Command, where he led the coordinated efforts of the special operations forces across all military branches. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. AmeriCares, and others.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. In the case of coronavirus, the medical profession has taken control of the agenda, yet most of the failings--and there are many--refer to civil protection issues: communications, logistics, coordination.

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Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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’. Report of the Public Inquiry Into the Fire At Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017.