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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. “A A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As an advocate, my experience with trying to do "new things" in government, is that you only get one chance to do it right. There are many such examples in government. That there isn't enough social, organizational, community, and financial capital to take up the issue again--to expand it, improve it, etc. She didn't last long.

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Digital health in the Asia-Pacific: Making services more sustainable

AWS Public Sector Blog

Take the Asia-Pacific region, where spending on healthcare per person is now 80 percent higher than it was in 2009. percent of total spending on cloud technology in the region in 2022. Recommendations in the report for governments Develop a clear digital health strategy with funded initiatives supporting cloud deployment.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Paul Downtown Investment Strategy (report) DC has a similar initiative although I haven't read up on it (" Mayor Bowser unveils $400M plan to revamp downtown DC public spaces ," ) because I have so little faith in DC government's planning capacity. Which makes me laugh that now Mayor Bowser says she's interested in a fourth term.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?” My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S. public sector customers.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) is the nation’s largest land bank, with over 75,000 properties in its inventory as of 2022. Between 2009-18, the Calhoun and Kalamazoo County land banks created at least 286 full time jobs in construction, lawn care, and property maintenance. Why are there so many land banks in Michigan?