AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

In March 2023, Management Information Systems Quarterly published an article highlighting how the Commonwealth of Virginia harnessed the power of data to save lives before, during, and after the pandemic. In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. When there is a new program, insiders may focus on distributing implementation to separate groups with purview over the various pieces. The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They are self-driven and not only see your vision and strategy, but often influence others in the implementation of that strategy. This article first appeared November 7, 2018. They are typically the cornerstone of your team, a leader not in title but in action. Favorite.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Post has an article about how Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is getting a masters degree in machine learning so he can apply AI to government and creating better policy (" A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI "). Positive deviance theory: Hope amidst failure.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The initiative, which began in 2018, encompasses a wide range of entities, from state and local government and educational institutions to organizations managing critical infrastructure. This article appears in our guide “ Bright Ideas for Making Cyber Stick.” Everyone else is a partner [in the process].” Get the guide.

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GovLoop

JULY 31, 2023

To implement new IT solutions and be more agile, organizations must welcome automation and other reforms and understand what their people and missions need. This article appears in our guide, “ How to be a Pivot-Ready Organization.” The project is moving into Phase 5.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Bratton implemented a strategy of “quality of life” policing, derived in large part from the “broken windows” theory advanced by the social scientists George Kelling and James Q. As crime dropped and police needed things to do, this was implemented in communities of color as "stop and frisk" which was later found unconstitutional.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. Ivan indicated that passengers do not just want information about where they are travelling from, but when they get there, they need the same consistently presented information.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's really hard when you're failing. It's worth a read.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 30, 2023

Fortunately, enterprises can accomplish this goal by implementing retail business intelligence in their tech stacks. This article provides the top five retail BI use cases to highlight the technology advantage for businesses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

. -- " 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 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Plan + program + building.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 12, 2018

Additional resource: A recent FedScoop article discusses Will Yang’s reflections on the first cohort of the CoLab [ click here ]. Related interview: An earlier Gov Innovator podcast interview with Bryan Sivak, then CTO of HHS, discusses implementing a department-wide innovation strategy [ click here ].

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 28, 2022

with each of the compilers as the MPI implementation in this work. With other applications, Google has seen good performance with Intel MPI 2018, and we intend to investigate performance comparisons with this and other MPI implementations. Read Article We’ve used OpenMPI 4.0.2

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We will implement a safeguard to prevent customers from exceeding standing limits for SharePoint. To ensure site performance and help customers have the best possible experience, Microsoft will implement a safeguard to prevent customers from exceeding these limits. When this will happen: January 31, 2023.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The City of Kenmore, Washington was the second organization to implement PBB, along with the City of Bainbridge Island , and both have been practitioners since 2013. “Our major theme of the next two-year budget is ‘Where’s the fun?’” This piece is reprinted in full below. 24 meeting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Some cities already do this.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Also see " Leimert Park plays to its own beat ," USC, and " Leimert Park: where does it go from here? ," KCET--the latter article discusses how since the approval of the transit station, an unknown buyer has purchased many properties in the district.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What you need to do to prepare: If you do not want users within your tenant to be able to access the SMS text notification feature in the Virtual Appointment Teams Meeting Template, you can implement a user-level policy via PowerShell to restrict access to this feature. What you need to do to prepare: No changes are required.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

Article by Kara Hagler. For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System.

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