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

AWS Public Sector Blog

They apply that frugal approach to IT: they build and operate only what they need to pursue their mission, and constantly innovate both to meet mission objectives and optimize cost. They encourage and support novel applications for public policy research. Going over budget is not an option.

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Carl Bergstrom: COVID-19 and The Threat of "Fake News"

Policy Chats

In this episode, theoretical and evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, Carl Bergstrom talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the era of "fake news" and how to combat disinformation. He is also the author of the book, "Calling B t".

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COVID-19: The Threat of "Fake News" (with Carl Bergstrom)

Policy Chats

In this episode, theoretical and evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, Carl Bergstrom talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the era of "fake news" and how to combat disinformation. He is also the author of the book, "Calling B t".

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COVID-19: The Threat of "Fake News" (with Carl Bergstrom)

Policy Chats

In this episode, theoretical and evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, Carl Bergstrom talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the era of "fake news" and how to combat disinformation. Kevin Karami (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Ambassador).

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A People-Centered Approach to Problem-Solving

GovLoop

Tara Dawson McGuinness describes her work as sitting at the intersection of policy creation, implementation, and citizen and community voices. McGuinness works at New America, a public policy think tank, where she founded the New Practice Lab, a research and design lab focused on family economic security.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. The public persona of a GSE, meanwhile, is that it carries out a congressionally defined public purpose mission 6 and is given subsidies and privileges to do so. More political than commercial.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

In other words, when you do a keyword search, the database will churn out a list of foundations and government agencies that have an association with that keyword (e.g., It is also not a database that caters to the research community, although the database does include foundations and government agencies that fund research.