AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. You can use Audit Manager to continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify risk and compliance assessment. Audit Manager collects evidence from multiple data sources as an ongoing process once you create your assessment.

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Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. Incineration, for example, can reduce waste volume by up to 90% (European Commission, 2017). Rated 5.00

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. Due to the highly parallelized way in which typical DL models operate, this new DL pipeline allows the use of all available computational resources on a given instance.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017. Then often following high-profile incidents and media coverage there are periods of heightened public awareness about safety issues that tend to lead to changes and or stronger enforcement of building codes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) When businesses undergo a major change in operations, they need a plan. Incorporating learnings from AWS, industry consultants, and other partners who have successfully leveraged their cloud services, CCCs give CFOs the tools they need to engage stakeholders and manage their cloud transformation.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

As such, ML is now embedded into many day-to-day operations. This is likely due to its most commonly identified benefits: enhanced data and analytics capabilities, increased operational efficiency and improved fraud and money laundering detection. This was back in 2017, and AI has significantly improved since then.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Shadow IT — that is, technology that the IT department does not approve or manage — continues to be a bugaboo. A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

military sensors, platforms, commanders, and operators in order to increase battle readiness and responsiveness. Steve currently serves on the board of the Foundation for America's Public Lands, a congressionally-authorized non-profit working to support the mission and objectives of the Bureau of Land Management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Some of these questions are normative.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

The comment thread on the NPS post (" National Park Service as operator of local parks in DC ") a couple back reminded me I meant to write about "Loch Raven Reservoir" because it was written about in a recent Baltimore Sun column, " At Baltimore's Loch Raven Reservoir, a good walk spoiled." million customers.”

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Decisions That Matter

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2017 Kara received MAPP’s Buyer of the Year (large entity) award.

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Decisions That Matter

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Dave Pelletier, CPPB is responsible for surplus property and overseeing the operations and activities of the Distribution Center and Purchasing for the School District of Springfield K-12, the largest district in the State of Missouri. In 2017 Kara received MAPP’s Buyer of the Year (large entity) award.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 18, 2023

In this podcast the expert guest is Rob Ray, Senior Vice President, for Operations at AshBritt, a national government solutions provider specializing in emergency management and disaster response. This episode is sponsored by AshBritt , a national rapid-response emergency management and logistics company.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. The point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses operate across various industries, including the public sector. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription. Access to an Amazon QuickSight subscription.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 23, 2023

He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. Eric Holdeman is a professional emergency manager who is passionate about providing information that can help families, businesses & governments become better prepared for disasters of all types.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The National Weather Service (NWS) and their Forecast Offices around the nation are key partners for the broader emergency management community. Eric Holdeman is a professional emergency manager who is passionate about providing information that can help families, businesses & governments become better prepared for disasters of all types.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

September 2024 Update Microsoft 365 Commercial + Azure Commercial FedRAMP in Azure The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Getting the data strategy right is a prerequisite to unlocking the power of technologies such as AI The GC requires a comprehensive data strategy to effectively manage information assets. Second, the extensively tested Amazon S3 API ensures consistent data management across platforms, providing robustness and reliability.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 15, 2023

Ransomware targeting the NHS In addition, there is also a considerable amount of data created by running NHS operations behind the patient frontline services such as HR, procurement, and finance. 2017 the Wannacry attack hit almost a hundred countries, targeting public and private sector organisations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. If it wasn't forthcoming, only then cut service.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

We believe that the “Western wealth management client” shares our entrepreneurial spirit and values our sophisticated, high-touch wealth management services that are tailored to meet their specific needs.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PBB is a resource allocation tool that depends on strong policy vision and direction, and a mechanism to infuse policy into operations – Strathcona County’s implementation has set the bar at new heights in this regard. Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions. The full article is posted below.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

The cloud has become an effective platform for cost management for state governments and is also the key to continuous innovation. At the same time, data in the cloud underpins many of the technologies agencies are investing in, making the cloud critical to current and future operational success. How Does Cloud Drive Innovation?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 5, 2019

One of the most penetrating criticisms is that in any discipline many parallel paradigms are operating. 2017), but to answer the question properly, we have to ask another. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the Master's level. Journal of Emergency Management 13(1): 59-72. Paton 2017. perhaps not!)

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer, recalls a conversation with colleagues on the budget and finance side of Pittsburgh in 2017 “We were so excited about what we wanted to do, and they kept calling our projects ‘unicorn projects,’” recalls Ervin. But with goals in hand, city leaders had to find a way to fund them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some residents and business owners don't like the event, And that includes someone who had been the commercial district revitalization manager for the district back in the 2000s. As a Main Street manager, I would be ecstatic with this kind of regular weekend patronage. Bridge Street, Phoenixville. I disagree.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines. My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. Start over.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Then the dancers, sculptors and jewelry-makers get the boot when “progress” arrives, and landlords can cash in by selling to builders or remodeling for a more upscale market.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations. The Seattle electric shuttle service FRED, was mentioned as an example.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. In short, cities are going to have to double down on urban design, placemaking, fun, and co-location.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Surprisingly the small community has access to a ton of money, through the generosity of Darla Moore, a hedge fund operator, who grew up there. One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. Arts Initiative. Tin Man" by Bill Secunda, is on display at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In 2017, the City of Bethlehem enlisted Reinvestment Fund and its partners Consulting and Atria Planning in the creation of a data-driven plan, dubbed the Bethlehem Blight Betterment Infinitive, or B3. Additionally, the task force recognized that maintaining current data on blight is instrumental to sustained blight management.

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A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management. 2–3 (May 4, 2017): 175–84.

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