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Shop Talk at the Garage featuring Maria Roat and Renee Wynn

Microsoft Public Sector

Brought to you by Planet Technologies and Microsoft , "Shop Talk" is a new event series designed to elevate conversation and build community around the effective use of Microsoft tools and technology to drive maximum public sector impact. Register to join us at the Microsoft Garage in Reston: [link] EVENT DETAILS When?

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services’ ( AWS) 12 th annual re:Invent conference offers a variety of events that educate attendees about cloud-related topics. Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. see It's Hardly Sportin' ). Note that last weekend was Celebrate Petworth, the annual community festival. Why ask why?

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

If it seems like we are experiencing more community disasters and traumatic events than ever before, it is probably because we are. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities.

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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. I had been booked as a speaker at the conference, but Juan Carlos asked if I would come anyway, and do some events around the edges of the crisis. The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. Not enough new buses had arrived.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

A study of the Great Recession’s impact in the United States found that “in 2007, the birth rate was 69.1 The article contributes to the line of research on recessions and birth rates by constructing a novel dataset of 150 countries and using an event study analysis to explore how fertility rates are impacted by the trough of recessions.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Drug Store News (" CVS Health debuts first Health Hub Location "): During a ribbon-cutting event at the company's HealthHUB location at 687 Johnson Ferry Rd. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. CVS Health Hub concept. in Marietta, Ga.