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Resiliency imperatives for CIOs with sensitive and highly-available cloud environments in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Public Sector Blog

They work to transform citizen experiences, save taxpayers money, support sustainable growth, expand market presence, modernize legacy systems, increase security, drive efficiencies, strengthen brand equity, and reduce environmental impact, with AWS GovCloud (US) serving as a foundation for strategic technology advancement.

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From Moving Cars to Moving People: Scaling Up Safer Streets in Indian Cities

The City Fix

According to the 2011 Indian census, 48% of people walk or cycle to work every day compared to the less than 3% of people. Most people in India walk – to work, to the market or to the railway station.

2011 105
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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting Japan’s digital transformation (DX) ambition by helping Japanese customers modernize IT and innovate securely at pace, driving sustainable economic growth. I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 View a larger version of this image.

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Great Smoky Mountains Host Citizen Observers

GovLoop

The inventory is now the largest sustained natural history inventory in the United States and one of the largest in the world, according to the park’s website. There’s also a tally of frequently seen species. And every mention of the project emphasizes how important volunteers are.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Where have CLTs been established?

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

Google Public Sector

It directly manages 193 million acres and supports sustainable management on a total of 500 million acres of private, state, and tribal lands. Using both historical and current data, the Forest Service built new products, workflows, and tools that help more effectively and sustainably manage our natural resources.

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Moreover, at the world scale there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from democracy as well as a retreat from the principle of right to protection (R2P). As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al.

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