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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Prior to that, Johnson served as the director of administrative services at the California State Board of Equalization from 2005 to 2007 and held various positions at the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1989 to 2005. Cheow Hoe Chan is the government chief digital technology officer (GCDTO) of the SNDGG.

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The Government Workplace Makeover

GovLoop

The right mix of in-person and virtual work will vary significantly depending on the type of work that’s being accomplished, the location, the technology, the organizational culture, and even information and physical security considerations,” he said. The key for employees is choice — but not infinite choices. Which one fits your needs?’”

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Colonel Davis was one of the speakers participating in a panel at the IMAGINE 2023 conference for education, state, and local leaders from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This lets agencies share only the appropriate data with the appropriate participating agencies in a secure and compliant manner.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

She knew modernizing the university’s technology could help improve the security of the university, improve business continuity, and solve the unique challenges of the university’s location. The university IT infrastructure had not been updated or improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The F&F core business of securitizing and guaranteeing loans essentially takes the below-market cost of the funds raised by issuing mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which reflects the implied guarantee, and passes that subsidized cost through to primary market lenders. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans. 3 This business model is very complex.