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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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Enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration in digital pathology with cloud-based PACS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Typically, biopsy specimens need to be transported by porters, processed and prepped by the lab technicians for microscopic examination, and finally interpreted by pathologists.

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Don’t Wait to Modernize: A Q&A on Preparing for The MGT Reform Act

Government Technology Insider

It features changes to the repayment/reimbursement requirements and new criteria for evaluating project proposals with a stronger focus on bolstering security, privacy and protecting against operational risks. Instead, they can spend more time leveraging digital resources to operate more effectively.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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Why the creation of smart cities requires real-time data processing

Open Access Government - Technology News

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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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.