AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Improving air quality through co-creation In 2018, the Mayor of London set an ambitious goal : 80 percent of the 31 million daily trips in the city should be made on foot, by bicycle, or public transport by 2041. By the end of 2022, 63 percent of journeys fulfilled these criteria.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

They apply that frugal approach to IT: they build and operate only what they need to pursue their mission, and constantly innovate both to meet mission objectives and optimize cost. As a team of data scientists note , Urban also uses AWS Step Functions to manage increasingly complex serverless applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be separate and independent from our existing Regions and its entire infrastructure and operations will be located within the European Union. The AWS CIC program launched in 2018 and ASU was one of the first universities to establish a CIC.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

To manage the rising urbanisation of smart cities, city planners and managers must turn to real-time data processing. To manage these levels of urbanisation, city planners and managers are turning to modern technologies and cutting-edge networks , leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to support ‘smart city’ solutions.

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Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. However, this can be managed through proper waste management and disposal practices. Rated 5.00

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These stopgap measures hinder innovations in technology, operations and staffing that our government needs to deliver services more effectively, forcing agencies to live with a fiscal uncertainty that prevents them from making long-term, strategic decisions. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.

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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. But it is also a management failure of local government. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2007, Jim was appointed General Manager of the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, where he led a successful departmental reorganization and restructuring of Los Angeles’ emergency management protocols and processes. From 2008 to 2018, Jim chaired FEMA’s National Advisory Council.

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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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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

This transition not only promises to streamline operations but also to significantly enhance decision-making through real-time data and insights. By automating the collection and processing of data, these innovative tools significantly reduce the likelihood of human error and the labor-intensive aspects of data management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice. Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of nonprofits and nonprofit healthcare at AWS, delivering the keynote at the IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The loss of one PPU on each affected satellite has forced them to operate with reduced power, impacting their 15-year design life. All four satellites were constructed by Northrop Grumman in Virginia and launched between 2018 and 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Then the dancers, sculptors and jewelry-makers get the boot when “progress” arrives, and landlords can cash in by selling to builders or remodeling for a more upscale market.

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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. One hurdle Morton sees is that government agencies tend to operate by business unit. The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different. The Obstacles. But those measures don’t tell the whole story.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Computing’s environmental impact on our planet That developer’s laptop doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Like the captain of a ship, it’s in charge of managing, or orchestrating, containerised cloud applications, always ensuring the right computing, network, storage, and configuration. million flights annually.

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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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Government Technology Insider

APRIL 8, 2024

The benchmark report found that overall, complexity in public records has increased by 57 percent since 2018. In some instances, FOIA requests have been abused to paralyze government entities with large volumes of requests, slowing down operations and siphoning away valuable time and resources.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. 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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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

This transition not only promises to streamline operations but also to significantly enhance decision-making through real-time data and insights. By automating the collection and processing of data, these innovative tools significantly reduce the likelihood of human error and the labor-intensive aspects of data management.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a result, public sector managers are becoming more attuned to the issue and are looking for ways to address its root causes. But with heightened turnover in recent years, hiring difficulties, stress, and an onslaught of overtime requirements, more and more public sector workers are experiencing its sometimes dangerous consequences.

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GovLoop

JULY 31, 2023

Some organizations haven’t fully embraced the cloud; others still run key operations on Windows XP. And “from a scalability perspective, [organizations must] be able to leverage resources on demand as needed, going up [and scaling] down to… control and manage costs,” he said. Legacy IT looks different from agency to agency.

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Government Technology Insider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In turn, the longer period of unemployment puts pressure on states not only because UI insurance is more likely to be exhausted but also because of the burden it places on state labor agency workers to administer benefits and manage each case. Help, however, is at hand. of savings for every $1.00

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018. This information will help you calculate the gap between your organization's projected operating expenses for the next 12–18 months and its projected income for the same period.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Where Kenmore particularly stands out, is in their commitment to apply PBB not only to their ongoing operations, but to their capital projects as well. million will go to surface water management and $4.5 This piece is reprinted in full below. 24 meeting. The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The siloed nature of operations and IT infrastructure mean approaches can vary significantly between Integrated Care Boards, Trusts, hospitals and even individual wards. Take NHS IT systems, for example. Consequently, many critical business functions happen end-to-end, with little consistency across siloes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. to accommodate crowds.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. In short, cities are going to have to double down on urban design, placemaking, fun, and co-location.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Kunkel earned his PhD in sport management and has published a multitude of academic treatises on the complex interactions of brands, professional sports, and fans. But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I guess that Greg O'Dell, long time CEO, left for the private sector a couple years ago (" Greg O’Dell Named OVG360 President for Venue Management ," SportsTravel). Plus, they are crappy at managing non-sports functions in their spaces. Flickr photo. The Washington Post reports (" D.C. Certificate of occupancy and sports facilities.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 30, 2023

Example: Nike In 2018 and 2019, Nike acquired two technology companies, Zodiac and Celect, to accelerate the adoption of predictive analytics in the enterprise. Transform your supply chain Supply chain management is another aspect of the retail business that can be transformed and improved using BI technology.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What's new and planned for Power BI MC673725 — Power Automate – End of support for the List Flows as Admin action with Power Automate Management connector - reminder 1 Rolled Out On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the List Flows as Admin action reached end of support and was replaced with the List Flows as Admin (V2) action.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Council has lost confidence in the Montgomery County Planning Board and accepted these resignations to reset operations,” said Montgomery council president Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large). “We Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. Sometimes it is.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations. The Seattle electric shuttle service FRED, was mentioned as an example.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

Grant management and reporting are crucial aspects of the overall funding lifecycle. If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough.

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