AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

In a 2018 Medium post , Jessica Kelly, Urban’s senior director of research and web technology wrote, “Organizations like Urban often have many complex models in older programming languages that would be time-consuming to rewrite in a more ‘modern’ language (e.g., They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

From The IBM Center for the Business of Government: Historically, state and local governments have been prescriptive in their job descriptions, requiring a pre-set level of education and professional experience. From Route Fifty: A Vermont solution could serve as a national model for childcare action.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

According to an EPA Overview , in the 1960s, 94% of waste went to landfills, and as of 2018, that number has been reduced to only 50%. The program aims to be bag free by 2023, making it easier to recycle and to reduce recycling contamination which can cause certain items to be unrecyclable. Their “Is it recyclable?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

I drink very little, especially now, and I don't use illegal drugs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

And as far as health outcomes go, I outlined a brilliant approach (" Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018) that the city ignored.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Announcing the 2022-2023 IMAGINE Grant winners. The AWS IMAGINE Grant , started in 2018, funds US-based nonprofits that use cloud technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Learn more about Continuity of Government IT on AWS.

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GovLoop

JULY 3, 2023

County-Level Community Exploration Through the Census Bureau In April 2022, Census released My Community Explorer (MCE), an interactive dashboard with profiles of all 3,000-plus counties in the United States that shows location and demographic data on poverty, education access and language.

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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. She is the co-editor, with Karen P.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 20, 2024

Experts propose purposeful screen use, good parental modeling, and educated screen time and behavior monitoring to encourage healthy screen use. (7) 7) Educational perspectives Interactive digital media platforms like video games and VR devices have changed many Canadians’ educational perspectives and lifestyles.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Today, I have the privilege of announcing our 2023-2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant winners. UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to build HBCUv, a learning management ecosystem that seeks to reimagine Black education.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Easterseals is improving the quantity and quality of its services by building an Education and Community Health Equity data dashboard, unifying its affiliates and service providers. The application cycle for next year’s AWS IMAGINE Grant will open in the spring of 2023. About the IMAGINE Grant.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But medical professionals and haematology students face a key challenge: limited access to educational materials, specifically digital blood films that depict how actual diseases look under the microscope. Democratizing healthcare education for all The LearnHaem team aims to further enhance the digital slide viewer’s functionality.

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A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Title: Teaching the Whole Student: Compassionate Instruction in the Academic Library Editor: Elena Rodriguez, College of Charleston Publisher: ACRL Chapter Proposals due September 15, 2023 ( bit.ly/twscial twscial ) by September 15, 2023. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 31, 2023.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

When Republican George Allen wanted to impose new education standards in the 1990s and had a Democratic legislature, he said, the governor appointed prominent Virginia educators to key administration roles and mounted a campaign around the state to build support from lawmakers and local officials — all before any votes were taken.

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