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Using the cloud to advance collaborative water stewardship

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network, coordinated by the Lake Winnipeg Foundation (LWF) , mobilizes volunteer water samplers across Manitoba in order to measure phosphorus concentration – the nutrient responsible for blue-green algal blooms on Lake Winnipeg. Learn more about AWS Water Stewardship.

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). However, because the person responsible for managing the land bank also works in these other areas, they bring that breadth of expertise to the table and can more efficiently coordinate with municipal and county government departments.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. To understand the magnitude of the task let me briefly describe an example, that of Covid-19 in one country.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

IRCAI’s mission is to coordinate, fund, and accelerate work that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with artificial intelligence (AI). Measuring country-level and collective progress towards each one of those goals requires a lot of data and innovative ways to analyze and manage it. Learn more about the project here.

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Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Emerging Partners for a Resilient and Equitable Recovery

Center for Community Progress

Although there are few examples of land banks and CLTs coordinating effectively and sustainedly, more communities are recognizing the value of a strategic partnership, and that one may be a solution to the other’s challenges. Here are five of the most common actions taken in communities successfully building land bank and CLT partnerships: 1.

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Another lost opportunity in parks planning: Joint Management Plan for Cromwell Valley Park; Lock Raven Reservoir; and the Northern Central Trail in Baltimore County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Due to the management goals for the City’s water resource, the [reservoir] areas are not managed as park, recreational areas, but as water resource protection areas. Obviously, 13 years later, a joint management plan is nowhere near being created. million customers.”

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy. Getting the data strategy right is a prerequisite to unlocking the power of technologies such as AI The GC requires a comprehensive data strategy to effectively manage information assets.