Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Department of Defense just retired the 8-inch floppy disks that were part of the nuclear missile launch process in 2019, and the IRS has plans to finally retire its outdated system for processing taxpayer data in 2030. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

of the population lived in an urban area in 2019, which is increasing all the time. Data, and the ability to process it rapidly and seamlessly, is crucial to the connected, intelligent networks that provide the lifeblood to today’s cities and the transport systems that link a nation’s cities together. In England alone, 82.9%

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It's great that transit agencies are taking this step to link African-American and transportation history. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face and spearhead out front. Davis, authored a book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

I've written so much about how Prince George's County, Maryland has been handed so many opportunities to reposition the county around transit oriented development, yet they've failed to take advantage of the opportunities time and time again. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece.

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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. From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. I said, "no. He was very surprised.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Again, I'd say a lot of hotel revenue and transportation (airline, rental cars, for out of area visitors) are captured by non local entities. Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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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+ "). For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

VPN and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology developed in a time when applications primarily existed in an on-premises data center and a security perimeter around the data center was all that agencies needed. to a TIC 3.0 environment by integrating SD-WAN solutions with the AWS Global Infrastructure.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Proposed routes as of 2019 While the current transit planning efforts are focused on new bus services, long before now, SEPTA should have been moving forward on extending the Broad Street subway line by 1.5 miles past the sports complex would relieve traffic, improve commutes and encourage more development at the site.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Data ingestion, geo-enablement, and wrangling First, we read the Chicago Transportation Network Providers dataset of 2019 in a.csv format directly from our Amazon S3 bucket as a Spark DataFrame. Additionally, it works in conjunction with other libraries, allowing for the development of ML models using spatially smart big datasets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Creating multi-state regional transportation districts. Transit oriented development is economic development. Complementary improvements for the transit network and economic development. For a time Transport for London and its predecessors produced great tourism guidebooks. Wkipedia photo.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Spotlight on satellite data artif risks, such as conflict and social unrest, are notoriously difficult to calculate and factor into plans owing to their rapidly developing and unpredictable nature. For governments, this nuanced insight is invaluable, enabling officials to determine safe and sustainable courses of action.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 6, 2023

I have written about how Pennsylvania with SEPTA, Massachusetts with MBTA, and Maryland with MARC (" A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program in Maryland ," 2019) could use their regional railroad commuter systems as the foundation to develop statewide railroad passenger programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The state is an oil producer, and has at least five oil refineries, so it is super committed to a gasoline-centric land use and transportation planning paradigm. In fact, two of the top ten car dealership groups are based here, one sold for $3.2 billion (although they have dealerships in states other than Utah).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. I asked him for a prediction of what would happen in the future. Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Stabilisation was due to give way to peacekeeping and development when the earthquake struck the country and abruptly reversed the gains achieved. [i] Shelter may be 'innovative' or 'inspiring' to an architect from a highly developed country, but it could equally be detestable and impractical to the potential user.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 15, 2023

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the latter, " Philly’s indoor pools have become ‘a travesty’ after decades of disrepair and neglect ," about how 11 of 12 public indoor pools are closed because of facility failure--from 2004 to 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

It's creeping out of bankruptcy (" Court order finalizes sale of Harborplace to Baltimore investment management firm ," WBAL-TV). -- " Baltimore's Harborplace in bankruptcy and what that says about certain development trends in urban revitalization ," 2019 There have been a bunch of reports and concept papers in the interim.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

The key findings of our analysis include the following: Reductions in revenues from 2019 pre-pandemic levels for Florida cities in fiscal years 2021 through 2023 are forecasted to total $5.11

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Although older adults previously trailed behind younger generations in online engagement, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) , “Internet use for 65-to 74-year-olds’ has increased from 71% in 2019 (before COVID-19) to 98% in 2022.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Starting with the September 10, 2024 Windows security update, you can use strong name-based mapping on Windows Server 2019 and newer. IB was first released for Microsoft Teams in 2019. Recommended actions: Administrators: Identify which add-ins need to be updated and contact the ISVs or developers of those applications to get updates.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions model for receiving all messages, originally developed for Microsoft Teams Graph APIs, is being extended to bot scenarios. This is intended to give developers more time to check that their apps handle the new behavior correctly, and make changes if needed. Thank you for your patience.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Select Upload new app, select Upload, and select the app package that you received from the developer. Instead we recommend the utilization of Multi Window UI (also known as the new meeting experience), which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. Update a custom app using Teams admin center.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 19, 2024

For similar functionality, we recommend using the Workflows app in Microsoft Teams, where we will continue to invest our development resources. Today, users can share content to a Microsoft Teams meeting directly from a standalone webapp (in the browser) if developers have embedded a Share-in-Meeting control in their webapps.

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