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How State and Local IT Agencies Can Best Prepare for Natural Disasters

State Tech Magazine

The National Centers for Environmental Information recently released the final update to its 2022 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters report. Last year tied 2017 and 2011 for the third-highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S., with the cost of 18 weather events totaling more than $175 billion.

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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

Many librarians identify as teachers or educators as well as librarians, but may not consider themselves as teachers in the same way as faculty, and may not consistently define their work as teaching (Davis, Lundstrom, and Martin 2011). For more information, please see the full CFP on the CJAL website: [link] l/announcement/view/872.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The current edition came out in 2011.). A sense of purpose allows you to sharpen your focus on just the information that is actually relevant to your journey; otherwise, you will be simply overwhelmed and confused by all the information that’s available. So now we have: purpose over compass over map over route.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E. It will provide educators with innovative case studies for teaching digital storytelling to inspire learners as confident and creative producers of digital information. Jacobson for Rowman & Littlefield. Thomas V.I.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31 An overview of AWS investments and economic impact in Japan from 2011 to 2022. In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan.

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Picture this: How the U.S. Forest Service uses Google Cloud tools to analyze a changing planet

Google Public Sector

So we were thrilled to learn in 2011 that its scientists were using Google Earth Engine , our planetary-scale platform for Earth Science data and analysis, to aid its research, understanding, and effectiveness. Box 2 shows NAIP imagery from 2017 with, with box 3 showing NAIP imagery from 2021.

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How New Zealand links data from public data sets to address important policy challenges: An interview with Kelvin Watson, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand – Episode #152

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Statistics New Zealand ( @Stats_NZ ) is the government department of New Zealand charged with collecting and producing statistical information. For over ten years, Stats NZ (as it is also called) has been working on data integration including the creation of the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) in 2011.

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