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Community trust is a firefighter’s greatest asset

American City & Country

We attend public events and meetings as a way of both educating folks on the ins and outs of disaster response and making ourselves available to answer pressing questions. For coastal communities like mine, this looked like educating locals and our internal team on the risks of tropical storms and hurricanes.

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AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

How AWS and AWS Partners can help unlock more value from your data AWS provides a comprehensive set of data capabilities designed to help government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations analyze and interpret data, optimize data strategy, and break down silos. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners can help fill that gap.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

In my work in the public sector over the last 20 years or more, one of the most familiar tropes is the exasperated crusade so many engage in to find better ways to collaborate within and across governments and between governments and the wider community. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Planning and Technical Assistance supports the short-term planning and longer-term strategy formation efforts of organizations within designated Economic Development Districts (EDDs) , states, local governments, sub-state planning regions, institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal organizations, and other eligible entities.

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CFP: ACRL Publication - Working title: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

A Library Writer's Blog

Examples include: How to engage in a TDM “reference interview” Data ethics in text data mining research contexts Embedding critical theory into text data education The role of library administration and management in supporting TDM Education, Training, and Logistics.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Having earned high marks from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), some of BU’s efforts include: Clean with certified products and equipment with third-party certifications. Therefore, relying on suppliers as partners in sustainability education is key.

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Conversations With CXOs: Michael Mayta

GovLoop

Sometimes the issue isn’t so much implementing policy as educating city leaders about what’s possible so that the policies they set are practical to implement, Mayta said. Imagine the director of public works, whose main task is not IT, and I come along and say, ‘We can connect all your traffic lights,’” Mayta said.