AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) is a federal government agency responsible for extending civilian foreign aid and development assistance, such as for countries that need disaster response and recovery resources, are trying to escape poverty, and are engaging in democratic reforms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

In this post, I explain how councils used collaboration and shared resources to develop this digital public infrastructure which has reduced the cost of building council websites by up to 80 percent and delivered better services. Brighton & Hove and Croydon are councils that are mature in their use of Drupal, with in-house developers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. million positions unfilled between 2018 and 2028—it is clear that there is a growing talent gap in critical STEM-focused areas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This year’s winners of the Go Further, Faster award include: Crisis Text Line is developing applications based on large language models (LLMs), to enhance highly-nuanced crisis conversations at a level of depth and speed not attainable in the past, ultimately decreasing time to intervention for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

And developing personalized health and care is becoming a major driver to deliver higher quality of care at lower costs. Since 2018, more than 2.4 Our lifestyles are increasing our risk of preventable disease and are affecting our well-being. We are living longer with multiple long-term conditions.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 3, 2025

A 2018 study found that areas maintained by Clean & Green groups saw 30 percent fewer assaults, 40 percent fewer violent crimes, and lower rates of child abuse and youth gun violence. Develop survey questions. Their contributions supplement local government capacity and fosters neighborhood pride.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices. 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.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

SNDGG oversees Singapore’s digital government transformation and development of the country’s engineering capabilities toward building a smart nation. The AWS CIC program launched in 2018 and ASU was one of the first universities to establish a CIC.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Finding a low-cost solution on AWS Launched in 2018 by a group of haematologists based in Singapore who believe in democratizing access to medical education, LearnHaem started with sharing its own haematology educational content and a few digital blood slides using an online slide viewer service.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I started reading Crain's Detroit Business and both Warren--home to GM's technical engineering operations, and Livonia--primarily a community of residential housing, are both either developing or considering the development of downtowns. -- " Warren resurrects plans to develop a downtown " -- " Livonia wants to build a downtown.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Participants were asked to use their creativity, intelligence, and technical skills to build sustainability solutions using data from ASDI on Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab , or any AWS Cloud services, to build solutions that support one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations (UN).

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Marisa Calderon is the executive director at NCRC Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF), a nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified community development financial institution (CDFI) that provides loan capital to expand access to affordable homeownership, which helps Black-, Brown- and woman- owned businesses thrive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical software development companies Digithurst and Telepaxx worked together to create an end-to-end cloud solution chain handling administration of patient data and their radiological scans; viewing and editing of scans; as well as long-term archiving. In 2018, this platform, called HealthDataSpace, was migrated to AWS.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it would have to be built into the experience. That would add some money to the till.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers." The mixed-income development will sit at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying area of D.C. s development team. that has seen average household income nearly double over the last 25 years.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved all 12 appropriations bills for the full Senate to consider, in line with the spending caps outlined in the bipartisan compromise on the debt limit developed earlier this year. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 25, 2023

On 25th May 2018, the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Robin Campbell-Burt discusses what’s changed 5 years later On 25th May, the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation – shortened to GDPR – which ultimately changed the way we deal with data.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In 2018, under County Executive Steuart Pittman, the county launched a performance-focused office called ArundelStat. One of the key initiatives of the office so far has been developing performance plans for 30 county departments. One of the key initiatives of the office so far has been developing […]

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 13, 2023

AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets.

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The Future Is Community podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Jane highlights examples of interdisciplinary collaborations across Minnesota to demonstrate how successful community development enhances economic growth alongside social justice. In this episode, Jane Leonard draws from her 40 years of wisdom to emphasize the fact that our world is not one-dimensional.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 27, 2024

Landlord participation in the voucher program has declined both nationally and in North Carolina from around 90% in 2018 to 80% in 2024. To determine FMR, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses the median rent price of 2-bedroom units from the latest American Community Survey (ACS). Picture of Subsidized Households.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I always say that the first big lesson I have from involved in DC urban revitalization was that you needed to have plans before they were needed, not after, because once the velocity of development has been unleashed, you can't catch up. It's a similar process to that of the original development of city centers (Downtowns).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, these applications will not operate smoothly unless IoT-based strategies for developing smart cities have a database as their foundation. The development of everything from autonomous cars to smart grids for renewable energy through to AI-based robots on factory floors is enabled by 5G. The impact of 5G.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The AWS IMAGINE Grant , started in 2018, funds US-based nonprofits that use cloud technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. AWS developed this experiment using AWS software integrated with Unibap’s processing hardware and launched it into space onboard a D-Orbit satellite.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 3, 2025

In 2018, the Library passed a levy with the promise to build a new branch. Nicole came to the library in 2012. She had one Communication Specialist but was certain she needed more help. As the Library grew, the strain on our department of two grew, as well, explains Nicole.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 29, 2024

billion in 2018 to £21.0 One way to develop this process is to create a connected data platform, leveraging AI, automation, and big data analytics across systems. This came to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Audit Office (NAO) found that the amount of fraud reported in the accounts they audited rose from £5.5

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

In 2018, only 5 percent of the conventional mortgage market were loans to Black borrowers, compared to 15 percent of the FHA/VA market, which are government-mandated to serve underserved borrowers. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is especially true for those with HPD vouchers, because HPD has preference categories that prioritize use of its voucher authority with its affordable housing development and preservation work. Vouchers do not appear to expand neighborhood options, including for families with children.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Developing a grant strategy involves identifying the funders and funding opportunities you intend to pursue over a certain period of time (usually a 12-month period, although it could be longer). We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. The first reform they looked at led to increased housing production targets for regions across the state.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Moore and his team work on developing topological materials for hardware. Brahlek, who joined ORNL in 2018 and received a DOE Early Career Research award, specialises in precise material synthesis. The QSC, headed by Travis Humble at ORNL, focuses on advancing quantum computing, hardware, algorithms, and materials.

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GovLoop

MAY 19, 2023

Such a shortage makes it difficult for any organization to develop systems and processes to prevent cyberattacks, and to respond quickly and effectively when attacks happen. Solution To address these challenges, North Carolina is taking a whole-of-state approach to cybersecurity.

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