Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

While preparing a set of entries celebrating next month's 20th anniversary of the blog, I came across this entry from 2020, which I didn't quite finish. There are plenty of business organizations that come together to work together on economic development matters across jurisdictions, that's part and parcel of the "Growth Machine."

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% AWS re/Start is a no-cost, cohort-based, workforce development training program that first launched in the MENA region in June 2021. While unemployment rates remain high across the region—10.5%

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

AUGUST 13, 2024

The challenges facing real estate development today are well-known. A June 2024 survey of the nation’s largest developers found that two-thirds of multifamily projects in the pipeline are delayed because they are no longer economically feasible under current conditions. How have developers adapted to rising costs?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In keeping with this philosophy, Wharton fully migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020 so it could move quickly and adapt to the latest technological advancements. To help develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for the project, Alig reached out to Peter Fader, the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at Wharton.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The data shows that affordable housing developers continue to struggle with closing financial gaps in their projects (Table 1). The median development cost per unit remained steady at $250,000, more than 50% higher than in 2020. In response, developers increasingly relied on local governments to fill the financial shortfall.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As noted by Forbes, investment in smart cities is expected to double from roughly $410 billion in 2020 to more than $820 billion in 2025. Consider the Ellinikon development near Athens, Greece, which includes everything from smart water management to IoT-enabled streetlights.… The challenge?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This dataset aims to accelerate the development of event-based algorithms and methods for edge cases encountered by autonomous systems in dynamic environments. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2020 alone, AWS investment in the construction and operation of data centers contributed $1.3 In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an important and growing presence, AWS is investing significantly in supporting skills and education programs to promote a thriving workforce.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 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. PALSAR-2 ScanSAR CARD4L (L2.2)

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First State Insights

DECEMBER 18, 2020

For more information on the Delaware Small Business Development Center, a unit of the University of Delaware's Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships (OEIP), visit delawaresbdc.org. Visit choosedelaware.com to learn more about the Delaware Prosperity Partnership.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

In early 2020, the National Association of Counties created its Tech Xchange, a network designed to bring together county IT leaders and staff to engage in idea sharing, problem-solving and discussions around technology. Editor’s Note: Learn more about the NACo 2023 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, on July 21-24.

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First State Insights

JUNE 23, 2020

Mr. Kane's research related to infrastructure and workforce development needs can be reviewed here: [link]. This episode was recorded on June 4, 2020. Mr. Kane's research related to infrastructure and workforce development needs can be reviewed here: [link]. This episode was recorded on June 4, 2020.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Open Source Creation of the Year Award celebrates government organizations that embody open government through the development of open source solutions. The Open Source Adaptation of the Year Award honors government organizations that have made great strides in reusing open source solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The Tech Alliance is a coalition of Fortune 500 companies, employers, government agencies, workforce development organizations, and education leaders, working together to help better prepare learners for much-needed careers in cloud support, software development, data analysis, and more.

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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. The fund allowed us to expand LocalGov Drupal between early 2020 and late 2021. website, launched in 2012.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Just before she took office in January 2020, Mayor Claudia López committed to redesigning a major artery of Bogotá into a “green corridor” for sustainable, active mobility. She also committed to a comprehensive participatory planning process – a potentially daunting. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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First State Insights

APRIL 24, 2020

This interview was recorded on April 9, 2020. This interview was recorded on April 9, 2020. For more information on the Delaware Prosperity Partnership, visit choosedelaware.com. For more information about the Institute for Public Administration visit www.bidenschool.udel.edu/ipa.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 9, 2023

The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a Power Platform Center of Excellence in the Federal Government Sphere June 21st @ 1pm ET Established in 2020, Transport Canada’s Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) team has been involved in Governance, Professional Development, and Citizen Development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices. When these systems are stable, well-documented, and still actively developed, there is no reason to read the word ‘legacy’ as a pejorative.” The SEDT has processed more than 2,600 requests since Urban launched it in September 2020.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Mary Ellen Gray, AICP, Director of Planning and Development in Newark, Delaware, joins Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), to talk about her journey as a planner and development activity in Newark. This interview was recorded on October 22, 2020.

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First State Insights

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Linda Parkowski, Executive Director of the Kent Economic Partnership, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about encouraging economic development in Central Delaware.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

AWS serverless services such as AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate , Amazon Aurora , and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enable developers to build applications that can respond to variable load, with lower running costs during quieter times.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I founded SibsForever in August 2020. I decided to develop and deploy the SibsForever application on AWS for two main reasons. By sharing their stories and experiences, the SibsForever.org community has become a safe and supportive space for surviving siblings. Offering resources and community for surviving siblings with the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

In May 2020, Maakestad began looking for a solution to support NU’s students through this crisis and beyond. The AWS Cloud allows us to scale our resources up or down based on our customers’ business needs,” said Gage Castro, senior developer at ConcernCenter.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By 2020, 50% of schools in Bulgaria were using Shkolo, which had almost 600K users. At the time, they used another cloud hosting vendor and their IT team consisted only of developers—no DevOps or system administrators (SysAdmins) personnel. All this traffic was managed with a single database machine.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Interested cities and NGOs can submit a letter of interest by October 30, 2020 here. Editor’s note: The Reforestation Hubs initiative is offering pro-bono technical support to a select group of local governments and NGO partners in the United States. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The ADHA partners with AWS to help power digital health services and explore cloud computing innovations that can transform healthcare Throughout her career, Cattermole has championed the development of female leaders and role models in public service. Speak up, develop good, equitable policy, and consider the gendered context of our work.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In January 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) inaugurated a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The project OU oversees accounts for prototypes developed for sponsors, centralizing resources and displaying progress or final versions, where students are the main users.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The AWS Fiber Optic Fusion Splicing program was launched in 2020. More broadly, AWS has made significant investments in supporting various workforce development efforts across Virginia. Learn more about how AWS supports workforce development in the public sector.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In 2020, the team decided that they would build their own digital slide viewer on AWS. Facilitating enriching and interactive learning experiences In just three months, LearnHaem designed, developed, and deployed its own digital slide viewer on AWS Cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. Read more about AWS for state and local government: Iowa Workforce Development West Virginia Office of Technology Kansas Department of Labor

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The City Fix

MAY 28, 2020

Between the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, our ability to understand the effects of infectious diseases has increased exponentially. Networked personal devices and automated sensors are now ubiquitous, not to mention communications technologies like the internet that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Intelsat expanded its service offerings with the acquisition of Gogo Commercial Aviation in 2020 and subsequently integrated Gogo to create Intelsat Commercial Aviation. Once the applications that used Gogo domains were moved to either Intelsat or Gogo/Intelsat SAN certificate, the developers updated the code only with Intelsat domains.

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