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Announcing CitizenLab is ISO/IEC 27001 Certified for information security

Citizen Lab

CitizenLab is excited to announce we’re ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified! This is a huge milestone for us as it verifies that CitizenLab is following best practices for security across our offices, employees, products, and services, including our community engagement platform. So what does this mean for you?

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. Pahlka served in President Obama’s administration as the deputy chief technology officer from 2013-14, where she worked on initiatives to modernize government technology and improve digital services. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020.

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2023 Year in Review: National Land Bank Network

Center for Community Progress

Check out the survey highlights blog post and presentation , and keep an eye out in 2024 for more insights. Some highlights from the past year include: State of Land Bank Survey and Results Thank you to all land banks that completed the 2023 State of Land Banking Survey. Meanwhile, New York celebrated 10 years of land banking.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it. That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023).

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. Each jury had a specialization--ours was drugs and guns mostly, but we still dealt with murders, assaults, and other violent crimes.

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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Always the fourth Saturday of September. -- Last year's blog entry Entrance to national parks is free. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Many parks, at all levels: national; state; and local, have events. More should. Federal shutdown. Congress has tried to keep parks open, to ward off animus by the public.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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