AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

In 2009, I was able to spend half a day at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County Maryland on International Walk to School Day. It's worth exploring providing it, perhaps on a nonprofit basis, to discourage car ownership and promote sustainable mobility, while still providing access to cars as necessary.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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