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

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Operational since November 2022, as part of AWS’s total investment of INR 1,36,500 crores (US $16.4

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How states can optimize their pre-K programs: An interview with Greg Duncan, Professor, UC Irvine, and Member, Pre-Kindergarten Task Force – Episode #143

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Research has shown both the success of pre-K as well as inconclusive evidence about the sustainability of those gains as children become older. In April 2017 the Pre-Kindergarten Task Force presented their findings. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia spent $6.2

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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. Regulatory reforms Governments update regulations and policies to remove barriers to digital innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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 is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference. link] (accessed 21 October 2022). Moore-Bick, M.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The resulting report , which focused primarily on how these homes were purchased, illustrated the complexity involved in consumer awareness of options and understanding of the process, varying finance options, and the context of different rules and regulations at all levels of government.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. 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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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

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. Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst.