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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

May 24, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to share the participants for the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF). CRH is the only 501(c)(3) in Puerto Rico dedicated to leveraging vacant and abandoned properties as assets for building sustainable communities. WASHINGTON, D.C. –

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Getting WMATA out of crisis: a continuation of a multi-year problem that keeps getting worse, not better ," 2015 -- " DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022 It's a shame that it had to reach the level of a super crisis to do anything.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.