AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These MSMEs also account for 99% of all companies, 70% of all jobs, and 60% of the gross domestic product (GDP) on average across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

This blog post attempts to identify which of these property tax breaks that might be relevant to a local government’s community and economic development plans. Under that exclusion, qualifying farmland is taxed at its present use (farming) rather than its true market value (for development). Retirement facilities ( G.S.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This has been a big year for federal policy developments that can help communities address vacancy and stabilize neighborhoods. The rulemaking recognizes the important role of land banks in community revitalization, neighborhood stabilization, and the development of affordable housing.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 15, 2025

In Cleveland, we are helping the City develop a new training curriculum for code enforcement officers and staff centered around a strategic code compliance approach. Code Enforcement Roundtable at RVP At our Reclaiming Vacant Properties (RVP) conference in St. We shared key takeaways from the roundtable at one of SCEMAs virtual lectures.

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Programming for Success with Chris Bass From developing program ideas, evaluating success, and managing teams, there’s so much to know when it comes to recreation programming. It’s one of the most rewarding elements of a parks and recreation career – to develop programs that make a difference in the community. A lack of resources?

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Citizen Lab

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By definition, comprehensive plans are complex, long-range, and broad in scope. Using CitizenLab’s user-friendly and accessible online engagement platform, the City of Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD)… The post A year in review of online engagement in Seattle, WA appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 11, 2025

Accurate AI gives predictions, not definite outputs, in the same way intelligence analysts form assessments. Knowledge and understanding of AI use against civil service/public sector organisations and the commission of serious and organised criminality is developing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s digital age, security has an expanded definition. In the meantime, the San Diego cyber community will continue to shape My eCISO through the collective development of guidelines. The team uses Amazon’s Working Backwards approach to assess customer pain points and iteratively develop solutions that meet customer needs. “We

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2025

Key Definition: User Personas Generalized, research-based profiles of key customers that capture what an agency knows about its audience. For instance, when GSA helped USDA develop Farmers.gov , it created three personas : Fred, an experienced producer; Amelia, a beginning producer; and Bob, a loan officer. Heres how journey maps work.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are unsure of exactly what organisation structure you require, we have provided a starting point to enforce some proposed good practices, like enforcing separation between development and production AWS accounts. These outcomes should be mapped to metrics that help evidence success.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

Over the years, originally inspired by a "what you can do" list by Preservation Action Council of San Jose , I've developed a four-part series on what people can do to "celebrate" National Preservation Month. For the most part the buildings are rented out for commercial use. It's already sold out, Wright Plus, May 20th.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

As technology evolves, the definition of responsible AI will also evolve. They can use independent teams to test the system for bias, and when discrepancies are found, develop a plan to identify the root cause, acquire more data to help mitigate the bias, and retrain the model. What is responsible AI?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical software development companies Digithurst and Telepaxx worked together to create an end-to-end cloud solution chain handling administration of patient data and their radiological scans; viewing and editing of scans; as well as long-term archiving. In 2018, this platform, called HealthDataSpace, was migrated to AWS.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 27, 2022

In recent years, the government has advocated using Open-Source Software to improve flexibility, transparency, and accountability in web development. Open-Source Software is a collaborative method of creating and developing software. The benefits of a community structure and the ability to advertise are definite rewards of OSS.

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Burnout’s Three Symptoms — and How to Combat Them WHO’s definition of burnout cites three symptoms. Four Steps to Manage Stress For Reeve, avoiding burnout means managing stress through developing four key skills: Self-awareness. In Reeve’s definition, self-care is “about rewiring you to prioritize you.” What am I feeling?

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CRA Today

AUGUST 1, 2023

Community development lending is a critical tool for driving impact and building stronger communities, but it requires a deep understanding of regulatory compliance and risk management. When both compliance officers and commercial lender work together, community development impact is a natural outcome.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This creates a scenario in which we have a misalignment of the knowledge developed within education and the actual role requirements, as the training undertaken does not leave the individual with the specific knowledge and skills required for that role. As such, an apprentice is developed to meet your organisational needs.

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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

This FOA is part of a suite of Catalyze innovation grants to advance projects to the point where they can meet the entry criteria for the NHLBI Catalyze Preclinical program or attract independent development support from other federal or private partners for preclinical product optimization and characterization.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 11, 2025

The OED defines priority in this example as “[a] thing that is regarded as more important than others… ” Note that priority, according to this definition, does not mean “more important than all others.” ” Times 21 July 9/2, as quoted in the OED The above sentence is the artifact we sought!

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

The IT for Development research program at the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha ( ITD Lab at UNO ) created an application website using a SQL Server database. A data definition language (DDL) report is extracted from the original SQL Server database.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

When asked how leaders could create a team culture that’s ready for change, Kerestesy explained that first, you must decide what culture is. “My go-to definition is a ‘shared rationale for how employees do what they do,’” he said.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Designing an experience that delivers timely insights and recommendations in a single screen enables agents to be the final and definitive resource in the customer service journey. This can lead to incorrect or outdated information being shared with the caller or constituent.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it's not huge when it comes down to it. Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For example, if a learner using an online learning system is trying to solve a particular question in “definite integrals” but they get stuck at a step that requires knowledge about differentiation of logarithmic functions, which they had either forgotten or skipped, the system can recommend content on that topic to the learner.

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Let's Talk Parks

APRIL 25, 2020

Usually, municipalities are the more common form of recreation and park management in Colorado and special districts definitely have something to offer in our industry. Just a tremendous opportunity for partner development with all of these different entities, our town, and the taxing entities. Meeker really is a great place to be.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No one cares more for your career development than you. We often fail to remember the subject matter in a meeting in which someone got cut off at the knees, but we definitely remember the insult. Here are a few things I wish I’d tackled earlier in my career through on-the-job training or by simply asking questions.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

So, besides the obvious nerves that came along with that, it was such a fun, enriching conversation and it definitely won’t be our last! This was our first live episode recording — with an audience. I was honored to co-host this conversation alongside Ben Kittleson, manager at Raftelis and co-host/producer of GovLove.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 25, 2024

I haven't figured out how to write it up, but Salt Lake City and County have invested in a lot of social infrastructure like libraries and recreation centers on the west side, but they haven't been developed in a manner that promotes the development of centers. Neighbors used the guise of housing justice to block the development.

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GovLoop

JUNE 26, 2024

Don’t Avoid Giving Feedback: Muru first acknowledged that you won’t always get it right when it comes to feedback, and it’s definitely a skill you have to practice. “You need to delegate to not only develop your employees and help them learn, but also let them know what to do if you’re out of the office.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

18 Freddie Mac , as a GSE, definitely has a very large balance sheet along with a strong financial capacity to fund timely payment of interest and principal. This is an extremely significant development in my view. Many of the alternatives listed above could also be developed further via pilot programs before a broad adoption.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 2, 2022

So, we got on the phone and spoke with a dozen smart people we knew in state and local government, asking nothing more than for a definition of that phrase. Our source was finally able to come up with a broad definition, but it took a good five minutes of going back and forth to accomplish that. Pinder didn’t stop there.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

It's competitive with Downtown for commercial property location and development. Definitely counter to my call for cities and counties to merge, to create bigger, more viable polities. A kind of edge city , but within the city, not on the outskirts of the metropolitan area. It accounts for 38% of the city's tax revenue.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To help address this gap, BCBST and East Tennessee State University (ETSU) forged an innovative partnership to develop the BlueSky Tennessee Institute. The program will help develop much-needed talent for BlueCross – and prepare the next generation of technology leaders. BCBST wanted to develop an intensive job training program.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Scientists are developing advanced AI tools and cancer imaging to aid screening tests for different types of cancer, including breast cancer, to help reduce the heavy workload that comes with older, legacy devices. e-Stroke has been deployed in multiple hospitals in the UK. It will help save lives, reduce workloads and streamline processes.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a significant new resource on local food system development (discussed below) was released just this morning. Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If your organization works on an issue where there are a lot of active funders, that definitely helps. We suggest having a strategy and an organized proposal development system because it will increase the odds that you will receive a grant, but you can choose a different path. It’s not all bad news though.

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