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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since privatization, more than half the net profit has been returned as dividends to the private owners, while investment in infrastructure languishes (" Water privatization: a dirty story about profit ," " Watery grave ," and " Water firms exist to sustain life. From " Water firms exist to sustain life.

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How public sector organizations use AWS to build sustainability solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

The cloud offers transformative solutions to address sustainability challenges, enabling organizations to increase productivity, efficiency, and cost savings, as well as reduce emissions and waste. “…The climate crisis is caused by us – and the solutions must come from us. We have the tools: technology is on our side.”. Monitoring our Earth.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.