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Deploying AWS Modular Data Center: From ordering to delivery and installation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Seismic bracing To the extent required by regulations or building codes, you must maintain appropriate seismic bracing or anchors for the MDC while it is installed in your facility. The MDC can be transported by road, rail, ship, and military aircraft (specifically C-17 or C-5).

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. Before the ADA, Public transportation, such as trains, were not required to have handicap access. It became known as “the Capitol Crawl.”

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City officials plead for more say in how AVs are deployed

GCN

Autonomous vehicle companies often cut out city transportation agencies with state laws that preempt local regulations. City leaders say that “handcuffs” them as they try to manage traffic and curb space.

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Digitizing the Curb Appeal

GovLoop

With the Open Mobility Foundation, Seattle’s Department of Transportation is creating a way to digitally define loading zones and measure their effectiveness through a Curb Data Specification (CDS). For instance, the city can increase curb regulations to preserve needed space and identify underused zones.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals. Data sovereignty—having control over digital assets—is increasingly important to customers, especially as regulations evolve.

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Revisiting Mott's Market corner store in Capitol Hill DC: residents buy the building after all

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Both this entry and the previous one on White's Ferry ("R evisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties ") involve protest and advocacy as a way to get better policy outcomes. It's a rare positive example.