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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Cheow Hoe Chan is the government chief digital technology officer (GCDTO) of the SNDGG.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said. Poster board from the 2014 meetings.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. So where are its emergency planners?

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For example, the securities brokerage industry in 1975 was barred from setting prices as a cartel, as it long had; airline fares were deregulated by the government in 1978; and bank deposit interest rates underwent complete deregulation in phases from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. 15 Credit reports.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

She completed her second mission in 2007, as the first female commander of the International Space Station, on Expedition 16. Fraser is a native New Yorker with over 17 years of experience across government and the private sector. Retired from NASA, Dr. Whitson started working with Axiom Space as director of human space flight.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The recent natural disasters centered in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have prompted many to look at government with fresh eyes. Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials.

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