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

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. Bahmni is designed to improve the quality of patient care in settings with limited bandwidth and infrastructure. Today, Bahmni supports millions of patients across more than 50 countries.

2023

2023 Government Public Sector Leadership

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, where, among other duties, she provided advice and guidance to the Army Chief of Staff on all Army healthcare matters.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is also singular that one of the first short, stubby minarets in Turkey (located in Izmir) was built 300 years after Sinan died in 1588. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey.

2023

2023 Public Safety 2015 2003

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Metro will be celebrating Independence Day the best way we can — by providing frequent service to help customers get to the festivities around the region and back home safely,” Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said in a statement.

2008

2008 2013 Budgeting Transportation

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. This came up in an email discussion a few weeks ago, and I started listing what I thought should be the elements of an ideal TMD program. The lots are metered, the city collects the revenue, and maintains the lots.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters is discussed in my original "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" entry in 2009, but updated a bunch of times. Managed workspaces for office and studio users. Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration. Availability of workspaces for artists and low-cost cultural producers.

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Article Development Economic Development 2003

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

Transportation

Transportation Coordinator 2011 2006

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

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

Priority-Based Budgeting was declared a Best Practice by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), urging every local government in the world to approach resource allocation decisions in the context of what matters most to it’s community. Local government communities must consider a completely different perspective.

Budgeting

Budgeting Local Government Elected Officials Stewardship

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system.

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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

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. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Another link. Many states including Maryland and Pennsylvania also have a local form of this.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development

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)

MARCH 10, 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). 35] For full disclosure, I was a major participant in its development, especially in the earlier years of 2014 and 2015, and so am speaking from first-hand observation. [36]

2008

2008 2014 2019 Press Release

It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. DC doesn't have the budget to be able to take on the full responsibility of WMATA, but that would allow it to manage it in a way that benefits the city.

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2006 2004 Transportation 2009

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

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

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

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

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

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

Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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

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

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

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

It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

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