AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) When businesses undergo a major change in operations, they need a plan. With the Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) workshop, our team of Transformation Consultants helps partners accelerate their journey with AWS by teaching them how to build a sustainable Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

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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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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. It's about speed versus access.

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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. He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. The guest, Captain Eric Von Brandenfels is an experienced mariner and Puget Sound Pilot. He is married with two grown children.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Canadian presence Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $40 billion in its Canadian operations , contributing more than $33 billion to Canada’s GDP and creating 45,000 jobs. AWS cloud computing has helped train 200,000 Canadians in technical skills since 2017. billion to Alberta’s GDP by 2037. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 What’s next?

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She served on the council for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from 2017-2020, and was the 2021 AMS Annual Meeting co-chair, bringing in nearly 5000 attendees, and the first time ever as a virtual conference. She was recently elected as a "Fellow" of the AMS in 2024 for outstanding contributions to the field of meteorology.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). It lacks a national emergency operations centre. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Operated by applied science and technology development company Battelle since 2016, NEON was designed and fully funded by the U.S. NEON is a continental-scale observatory that collects ecological data to better understand our changing ecosystem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. 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. Arts Initiative. The state later developed its own program.

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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. C increase above pre-industrial levels.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017). But that could be reversed in association with Brightline service extension from Orlando, especially if they have examples of Brightline + local transit network improvement in Orlando and the South Florida cities now.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Shinkansen are high speed rail services operating at a speed of 150-200 mph. Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. Transit marketing for tourism. I've been remiss in writing follow up pieces.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

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. Sonoma County, California has put cloud and data integration to work to improve its human services delivery to support residents experiencing or at risk for homelessness.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. More network improvements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations.

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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. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It's not in operation because of covid but there is a miniature railroad park, S&S Shoreline Railroad, abutting the trail in Farmington. And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. No signage for park connections abutting the trail. They did have a sign.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. The purpose is to maintain cash flows for liquidity to meet short-term operating expenses and obligations. We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. They remade it into a full park circle.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Brett earned a joint B.A.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The changes in the cabinet have diminished the sustainable growth of cybersecurity in the UK. With interest rates and operational costs rising across industries, businesses cannot afford to lose a significant portion of their assets to continual cyberattacks. © Maksim Shmeljov.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But the South Hall vendors I don't think want more competition and the city and CAC members think it's more important to make revenue from facility rental to otherwise support subsidizing operations of the rest of the market. It should support sustainable modes (biking, walking, transit improvements) as well as parking.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It will also enable Malaysia organizations to meet the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDIGITAL) goals, and advance the country’s Malaysia MADANI vision to build a highly skilled, innovative, prosperous, and sustainable economy. Since 2017, we have trained over 100,000 individuals in the country on cloud computing skills.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

. -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 1 ," (2017) -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 2, building a network of bike facilities at the regional scale ," (2017) -- " Why not a bicycle hub at National Airport?,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Other companies entered the market, but have mostly ceased operations. It turns out there were nonprofit operations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. All the operations were sold to for profit operators as it turns out they didn't account well enough for the cost of replacing the initial fleet of vehicles.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Provide funding, both for capital improvements and operations, that that also considers providing significant ongoing funding to cultural resources deemed important. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. As background, the companies had long been thinly capitalized and relied upon the “implied guarantee” of the U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

See White House Factsheet, January 7, 2015, “Making Homeownership More Accessible and Sustainable,” next to the last section. From about 2015 to the end of the Obama administration in January 2017, the notion of a congressional solution implemented via legislation went almost totally quiet. mortgage system.]]

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