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

AWS Public Sector Blog

The country has poor internet connectivity in remote places, so the team worked with MOSIP and vendors to engineer special field kits that let enrollment officers travel door-to-door to collect people’s information and then upload the data into the system in batches when they have connectivity.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center. In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arlington County requires transportation information kiosks for multiunit and public buildings, like libraries. In 2009, I was able to spend half a day at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County Maryland on International Walk to School Day. Below: Roy Lichtenstein did do a painting of VW microbuses.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Branding's not all you need for transit ," 2018 -- " One big idea: Getting MARC and Metrorail to integrate fares, stations, and marketing systems, using London Overground as an example ," 2015 -- " BVG Jelbi — world’s most extensive MaaS solution in Berlin ," Medium The fourth, based on how rail passenger services are organized and delivered (..)

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In 2009, the Center for Priority Based Budgeting was created as a mechanism to help local governments implement PBB, as nothing else existed within local government public finance that truly is scalable, transferable and effective. Not surprisingly, for most cities they will identify hundreds of services, and some identify over one thousand!

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. economy " Broadway News )./ Nationwide, attendees spent an average of $38.46

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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)

Nevertheless, there is just enough historical information to reasonably estimate how much the G-fee will need to go up if the same return is to be earned on the ERCF as has been earned based on the CCF. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014).

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