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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. Digital advocates of the year Winner: Digital Identity Directorate Team – Brazil The Digital Identity Directorate Team implemented the innovative GOV.BR

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. the 'violent' level. [2]

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023). Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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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. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA just recently announced the last such cross-subsidy changes in January 2023. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014). See my article “The Policymaking Implications of Record-High Mortgage Origination Profits During the Pandemic.

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