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Accelerating the secure exchange of public health data with AIMS, powered by Ruvos and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2012, Ruvos saw that advances in cloud computing could take the platform to the next level, helping address challenges such as the resource constraints faced by labs, the sensitive nature of public health data exchanged, the need to rapidly scale data exchange during an outbreak, and the ever-crucial need for timely and accurate data.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Register to vote or check your registration today with TurboVote, Democracy Works’ flagship tool for voter registration. Register to vote now at TurboVote.

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Creating AWS CloudFormation templates for AWS Ground Station DigIF workloads

AWS Public Sector Blog

InstanceRole: Type: AWS::IAM::Role Condition: ShouldCreateInstance Properties: AssumeRolePolicyDocument: Version: "2012-10-17" Statement: - Effect: "Allow" Principal: Service: - "ec2.amazonaws.com" For more information on this type of policy, refer to AWS managed policies. Details for this can be found at the Terraform Registry.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank. All the data is de-identified and available to approved researchers for health-related research that is in the public interest.

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Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

EDITED BY: Wendy Pothier , University of New Hampshire & Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University OVERVIEW: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2012, have worked in tandem with worldwide climate concerns to alter the way we approach the environment, poverty, gender inequality, hunger and worldwide trade.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. This is a blog post, and my editor says I’m already over my word limit.) Please read the report.

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

A Library Writer's Blog

2012, 6) Teaching has become a core activity in academic libraries over the last decades, but librarians may find their teaching role to be a complicated one. "Librarians teach. It might not be what we planned to do when we entered the profession, or it may have been our secret hope all along. Either way, we teach." Oakleaf et al.