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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

“Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51 In 2021, the region launched the first Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) in Singapore, which works with public sector agencies to identify pressing social challenges, test new ideas, and develop industry-focused solutions.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. With this investment, Michigan is taking an important step to strengthening economic growth, reducing crime, and improving overall public health and quality of life.”. “Vacant properties are a statewide issue.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! Trees as Nature-Based “Shade Sails” ," American Journal of Public Health ). The Creek Management Plan provides a number of recommendations for the Creek within the Park. As we gear up to do a new round of master planning, one element will be the Creek and pond.

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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

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). And public health. Safe routes to school programs.