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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

military sensors, platforms, commanders, and operators in order to increase battle readiness and responsiveness. He most recently served as the 11th Commander of United States Special Operations Command, where he led the coordinated efforts of the special operations forces across all military branches. AmeriCares, and others.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.

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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. Nope, in 2015, plans to move forward were scuttled, seemingly forever (" Virginia Beach was right to reject light rail extension ," Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ). A perfect example is the DC streetcar.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship seeks to hone in on the concept of extraction or extractivism as a logic and operating principle of current forms of capitalism within academic librarianship. 2–3 (May 4, 2017): 175–84. She is also the elected ACRL Instruction Section Chair for 2023-24.

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Icometrix helps to detect and treat neurological diseases with AI imaging, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. By 2015, however, icometrix noticed that these ML-based pipelines were reaching their limits regarding accuracy of the measurements and computation time.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In a market economy for housing, to ensure a place for the economically less well off, that requires public intervention to build, own, and operate housing, as well as other subsidies, such as vouchers for people to pay for private market housing.

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Strathcona County Blazing A PBB Trail in Alberta, Canada

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

PBB is a resource allocation tool that depends on strong policy vision and direction, and a mechanism to infuse policy into operations – Strathcona County’s implementation has set the bar at new heights in this regard. Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions. The full article is posted below.