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To Build Just and Sustainable Cities, We Need To Reclaim Community Banking

Next City

Oscar Perry Abello’s new book, “The Banks We Deserve,” shows how allowing communities to tap into banks’ money-creation power is crucial to addressing our climate, housing and economic crises.

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Smart Island: How the AWS Cloud is powering social, economic, and environmental improvements in Greece

AWS Public Sector Blog

Smart solutions deliver sustainable local economic development through the optimal use of local resources. The project’s solutions and infrastructure have been developed based on four pillars: sustainability, telehealth, leisure, and digital skills. AWS launches new Sustainable Cities Accelerator for startups.

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15 startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

enlightenAI San Francisco, CA Enlighten AI is creating an AI-powered personalized teacher’s assistant designed to enhance educators’ impact while making their work more sustainable, including grading and giving feedback. The platform houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships, and grants for students.

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Re-imagining the future of mobility on islands

AWS Public Sector Blog

Digital technologies have the potential to make mobility systems more sustainable, intelligent, and inclusive. Islands, like other communities, are working to create effective and sustainable transport linkages. But they are subject to unique challenges, as they are often highly dependent on external transport linkages.

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Urban Mining: 50 Ways to Mine the City

Reprogramming the City

Urban Mining and Harvesting City Resources Can Create a Sustainable, Circular Economy. A new model is transforming the way we think about resources in the city—a more sustainable, circular approach that realizes the byproduct and outputs of the city’s daily operations are a valuable source of raw material.

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Your Patrons Are Not Goldfish! The Powerful, Scientifically Proven Reason Why Your Library Should Aim To Hold the Sustained Attention of Your Community

Super Library Marketing

Then there is sustained attention. We use sustained attention when we binge-watch an entire season of Stranger Things in a single day, read a good book cover to cover in one sitting, or attend a concert, play, or sporting event. Sustained attention is where great experiences are found. Latest Book Review.

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Germany’s International University of Applied Sciences automates creation of educational videos using generative AI, serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

As part of this experience, IU offers their students targeted learning videos summarizing different course content based on information captured in course books. The solution uses LLMs to generate summaries and extract additional textual information (such as bullet points) from course books.

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