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Carlisle develops a vibrant engagement platform to revamp public spaces for its community

Citizen Lab

Executive Summary: Looking to create a more official and consolidated platform that allowed for additional oversight and increased transparency in government operations, such as the redesign of public spaces, the Carlisle team began looking at community engagement platforms.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. They crafted HB 294, which expedited administrative tax foreclosures specifically for vacant and abandoned properties.

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AWS re/Start MENA celebrates successful first year

AWS Public Sector Blog

according to the World Bank —a recent global survey by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Gallup revealed “myriad positive outcomes” for those who develop their digital skills, including higher salaries, job satisfaction, and increased revenue and innovation for the organizations that employ digitally skilled people.

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Future of Industry? Repurposing Factory Chimneys For New Skyscrapers

Reprogramming the City

As industrial operations move away from dense and expensive urban cores, existing industrial buildings may offer a resourceful future of industry by repurposing their chimneys as building blocks for skyscrapers. Could the Future of Industry be Source Material for Adaptive Reuse? However, the abandoned chimney is no longer valuable.

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Episode 64: Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide with NCRC’s Community Development Fund

CRA Today

Its new lending platform, for which it is also building an algorithm to determine loan eligibility – stands to make the roughly 10-person operation more efficient, Marisa Calderon, NCRC CDF’s executive director, said in a recent interview. It should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances.

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Using analytics and AI to tackle global human trafficking

Open Access Government - Technology News

Nicky Furlong, Director, Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences at SAS UK, describes how new developments in analytics can support the fight against global human trafficking One of the most disturbing things about global human trafficking is just how pervasive it is. million people were trapped in some form of human slavery in 2021 – 27.6

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Cities cost money to operate. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc.