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Highlights from the 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

AWS Public Sector Blog

With cloud as the new operational foundation, governments can fully embrace innovation to revolutionize constituent services and operational effectiveness. In 2019, Amazon set a goal to match all of the electricity used across it global operation with 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

Dear friends and colleagues, As we enter the second half of 2024, I want to take a moment to reflect on a few remarkable accomplishments Community Progress achieved in the first six months of this year. As we move into the latter half of 2024, there are so many exciting opportunities to connect with Community Progress on the horizon.

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Why Federal Down Payment Assistance and Closing Cost Reform Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These programs, which are aimed at assisting first-time homebuyers (FTHBs), are primarily run by state and local governments as well as non-profit organizations. 1 See “Down Payment Assistance Programs & Grants by State 2024,” [link]. percent from 2019 to 2022 (the latest available). ” April 1, 2024.

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Mitigating the risk of council technology investments

Open Access Government - Technology News

According to the Local Government Association, nearly one in five councils. Compounding the problems arising from a lack of government funding and demands on day-to-day spending is the fact that many councils don’t have modern IT solutions that enable informed budgeting decisions.

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Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And various phases of a new central station complex --station, retail, office, hotel--are opening between now and 2024. in parts of New England, Washington State, California, Maryland, etc.). -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 Transformational Projects Action Planning.

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Sales Taxes from Non-Residents

Death and Taxes

Afonso and Moulton’s (2024) article, published in the journal of Public Budgeting & Finance , uses the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment in order to understand the impacts of commuters, tourists, and college students on a county’s tax base. ” Public Budgeting & Finance (2024). and Jeremy G. .