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

AWS Public Sector Blog

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. He has considerable expertise in strategic technology, portfolio management, solution delivery, software engineering, integration, and operations.

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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. These changes have not been to the detriment of the service we provide, in fact, the opposite.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). Tertiary Network concept. I extended the concept to multiple scales.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. It's not in operation because of covid but there is a miniature railroad park, S&S Shoreline Railroad, abutting the trail in Farmington.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements.

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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 private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., Community building versus revitalization.