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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. For years I wrote that the DDOT safety dashboard was crap (" DC DDOT transportation access portal doesn't really say anything ," 2010). Government has a bias for inaction. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter.

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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

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with customers and partners to build software solutions that improve government and nonprofits’ prediction, preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities—solutions that are being leveraged across Latin America and the Caribbean. This work will also help the government anticipate future risks.

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July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Help us shape our products for Government organizations. Microsoft is looking to understand employee experience sentiment in government organizations. What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2022 - Government. Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions. Government GCC High endpoints. Newsworthy Highlights.