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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021 and 2022, Japan Digital Agency (DA) selected AWS as one of the cloud service providers to support Government Cloud, which delivers common cloud infrastructure that central government agencies, local governments, and other government organizations can use.

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Covered California provides affordable healthcare access, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2013, more than 17% of Californians did not have health insurance. Discover how government agencies across the country use AWS to better serve constituents at the AWS Cloud for State and Local Governments hub. This was particularly true in California, where more than 39 million people live.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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November 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Built to meet the enhanced security and compliance requirements of the US government, Windows 365 Government is a full Windows 365 experience—combining the power and security of the cloud with the familiarity of the PC to empower flexibility and innovation. error messages when trying to open documents on a SharePoint website.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A big issue is that transportation agencies (and government agencies more generally), even very good ones like NYCDOT, aren't always that proactive, and tend to not have "a sense of urgency" when it comes to action.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In conclusion, a proper approach to reasonably risk-adjust all government agency fees –combined with charging carefully targeted borrowers a lower interest rate funded by other carefully targeted borrowers paying a higher interest rate – would be far better public policy than what exists today.