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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. They often rely on donor and grant funding, so they have to justify every expense to their constituents.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Colonel Lamar Davis of the Louisiana State Police (LSP), recently summed up the law enforcement landscape, saying, “When you look at crime today, it’s not just a public safety or law enforcement problem—it’s a social problem.” It’s our job to bring the needed resiliency through technology.”

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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

-- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Forcing Displacement by the disconnection of tax assessment models from public policy goals ," (2005) -- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Dupont Circle's changing retail environment covered (..)

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The second strand is my continuing investment in the patient slog that is public sector and public policy reform, in this case informed by following the work of Jennifer Pahlka. At first glance, the advice to “stop telling constituents they’re wrong” is a short essay on the arcane, even trivial.