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Top 100 GovTech Influencers and Brands Creating the Operating System of Government!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

“GovTech is the operating system of government!” With 89,000 + government entities at just the local level and 22 Million civil servants nationwide, the diversity of technology tools used to operate the “business” of government is extremely broad.

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Accelerating data processing for IRCC with Amazon EC2 instances

AWS Public Sector Blog

This initiative not only addressed a critical operational challenge but also set a new benchmark for what is achievable with cloud technology, completing in days what was once took months. Au départ, le projet pouvait se faire sur site et les jeux de données à traiter étaient beaucoup plus petits.

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How Government of Canada customers can use AWS to securely migrate data

AWS Public Sector Blog

CBSA was able to complete the transfer in less than half a day using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. Data encryption Encryption is an integral component of a defense-in-depth strategy, which is a security approach with a series of defensive mechanisms designed so that if one security mechanism fails, there’s at least one more still operating.

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How public sector organizations use AWS to build sustainability solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

With a goal to modernize, better understand consumption, and improve operating costs, Aguas Nuevas installed a fleet of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to automate data collection. In Chile, Aguas Nuevas S.A. provides potable water and sanitation services throughout the country while minimizing environmental impact.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-256 authorizes counties to establish, erect, acquire, lease, equip, support, operate, and maintain a county home for “aged and infirm persons.” Subject to certain conditions and limitations, G.S. 160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.”

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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

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Towamencin Township residents organize a petition drive to create a November ballot measure to change the township's charter in response to the town's decision to sell its public sewer system for $115.3 They bid extranormally high, not on economic considerations, as a way to create a node for further operations.