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Citizens Benefit from Application Modernization and Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website. But Code for America has found that the petition processes “to clear criminal records in most states is complicated and burdensome.”

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. Multiple statutes provide authority for a local government’s affordable housing activities, as detailed in this comprehensive blog post by my colleague Tyler Mulligan. State , 368 N.C. Additionally, G.S.

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Accelerating data processing for IRCC with Amazon EC2 instances

AWS Public Sector Blog

Within two days, IRCC’s in-house developed scripts were adjusted and optimized to work on a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances. Au départ, le projet pouvait se faire sur site et les jeux de données à traiter étaient beaucoup plus petits. Specifically, all machines were r5a.8xlarge

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Jodi Dean (2005) says that slacktivism results in post-politics: “Busy people can think they are active – the technology will act for them, alleviating their guilt while assuring them that nothing will change too much. […] By sending an e-mail, signing a petition, responding to an article on a blog, people can feel political. O’Hara (2010, p.