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Interactive digital media platforms impact on Canadians lives

Open Access Government - Technology News

in 2013 to 16.8% Experts propose purposeful screen use, good parental modeling, and educated screen time and behavior monitoring to encourage healthy screen use. (7) 7) Educational perspectives Interactive digital media platforms like video games and VR devices have changed many Canadians’ educational perspectives and lifestyles.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S.

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

This diversity is apparent in the awardees who represent a broad array of sectors from healthcare to public service to education to agriculture. Released in 2019, GOV.BR Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019. A loss for community-based radio programs. I'd argue that community/local radio independent of large organizations like the University of Utah should/could be an element of that funding stream.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I would have an agenda, provide "education time" so people can be exposed to best practice insights, featuring well known academics and other professionals, and go from there. Academic insight. And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. Low income students are 9 percentage points more likely to be suspended in a given year than their non-low-income peers, the Education Research Alliance finds.

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