article thumbnail

How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, XULA’s chief information officer (CIO), Dr. Mable Moore, launched XULA’s journey to future-proofing the university with the cloud. Mable Moore has been XULA’s vice president of technology administration and CIO for the past five years, and has a 30-year career in technology and higher education leadership.

article thumbnail

Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. Success in technology changes leadership.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

2009 52
article thumbnail

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Create regularized transportation funding mechanisms for the metropolitan area and region that transcend individual operators like WMATA (" DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022) Network improvement program 1. Washington Post , July 13, 2003.

article thumbnail

Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008. ” [link].