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Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Doug Stockham co-founded Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) – a 501(c)(3) public non-profit – in 2011 to help companies take care of their team members in need. Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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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 trillion in total capital and operational expenditure associated with our two AWS infrastructure Regions in the country. In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. View a larger version of this image.

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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

It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017), are beyond remarkable. A perfect example is the DC streetcar. Or the Norfolk light rail.

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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. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. More network improvements.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I know that Miami is served by bus, a heavy rail system that was burdened by a poor system design that didn't focus on stoking ridership, an intra-district downtown transit service called Metromover (" Making the case for intra-city vs. inter-city transit planning ," 2011, " Brief follow up to intra-district transit proposal for Tysons: Toyama City (..)

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Traditional technology procurement challenges service transformation When the UK government wanted to transform services to make them modern and digital in 2011, the approach to technology investment then was the same as it was for capital infrastructure projects such as road building.