Mass Attacks in Public Spaces, 2016-2020
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4 Things You'll Learn About Data, Leadership + Budgeting at the CPBB 2016 (Un)Conference!
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JUNE 28, 2016
The Center for Priority Based Budgeting 2016 "Prioritized World" (Un)Conference is just over a month away. The 2016 CPBB Unconference is going to be our biggest and most dynamic event to date! Last year NRC engaged at our 2015 conference (and is a sponsor of the 2016 conference). But don't just take our word for it.
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Community engagement examples: September’s inspiring platforms
Citizen Lab
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan update (United States) In 2016,… The post <strong>Community engagement examples: September’s inspiring platforms</strong> appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog. We find ourselves consistently impressed by the projects launched on our platform. Let’s dive into six recent projects.
Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " 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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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. When a natural disaster strikes. “In Create a common operating picture for search and rescue at the edge with AWS.
October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
JANUARY 19, 2017
This blog post is an attempt to begin a dialogue among public management researchers about how we might begin to design research that would capture the life-cycle of a network using methods that allow the researcher to capture exit and entry of organizations, new governance schemes, and shifts in the task or purpose of the network over time.
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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 22, 2023
In line before the concert, " Taylor Swift and 69,000 of Her Closest Friends Descend on Philadelphia ," Philadelphia Magazine.
How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JULY 18, 2023
Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. By 2016, it had lost that store. Source: Library of Congress – U.S. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery.
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AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
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Orbital Sidekick uses AWS to monitor energy pipelines and reduce risks and emissions
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 11, 2023
Founded in 2016, OSK has rapidly developed and deployed its technology to collect, process, and analyze advanced hyperspectral data, powered by AWS. The OSK persistent monitoring service helps commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations; environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG); and security goals.
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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 15, 2023
. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)
The key to better enterprise risk management
Partnership for Public Service
MARCH 22, 2023
This blog draws from a Feb. Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series.
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How governments can transform services securely in the cloud
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
In 2016, on the eve of the voting registration deadline, political leaders referred audiences to the website after a live TV debate. The UK Space Agency’s chief engineer and former head of the UK Defence Digital Service (DDS ) Richard Crowther, explains why in a Ministry of Defence blog post about speculative execution vulnerabilities.
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How Taylor Swift, Pedro Pascal, and Other Trends Led a Library Social Media Marketer to TikTok Success
Super Library Marketing
AUGUST 20, 2023
I was promoted to Circulation Supervisor at a branch in 2016,” says Paul. S ubscribe to this blog and you’ll receive an email whenever I post. He originally pursued a degree in architecture at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Here’s How To Take Advantage of This at Your Library Upcoming Appearances Will I see you soon?
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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
APRIL 15, 2021
How the Los Angeles Countywide Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment’s 2016 findings were so compelling that the county board of supervisors decided to put a parks funding measure on the ballot, which passed with overwhelming support.
What It’s Like to Be a Parks and Recreation Director
Let's Talk Parks
APRIL 25, 2020
That’s why I created this blog. I met Sean VanRoenn at the Colorado Parks and Recreation conference in September of 2016 through a networking event where young professionals were paired with a director of parks and rec. Luckily, he agreed to be interviewed for this blog. This is particularly important for young professionals.
Rethinking how to hire and retain cloud talent in the public sector
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap?
How to build an Aadhaar Data Vault on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
This blog post explains how government and private entities that collect, process, and store Aadhaar data for various use cases can use AWS CloudHSM from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a secure Aadhaar data storage solution that can meet guidelines provided by UIDAI. Architecture diagram of the solution described in this blog.
Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 4, 2023
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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Linda Lenz, founding editor of Catalyst Chicago, dies at 77 | Technical assistance for local schools advocates
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 11, 2023
The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. I guess there are others, like K12 Digest , and blogs. For awhile, a sister publication also operated in Cleveland. School reform and how can communities respond. That's why Catalyst Chicago was so innovative.
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Why Washington County, Wis. Chose to Pursue Priority Based Budgeting
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016). Keep an eye on the CPBB blog for further updates.
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Open Data Roundtables
Data.gov
MARCH 4, 2016
The 2016 Open Data Roundtables The Open Data Roundtables were gatherings to identify case studies, lessons learned, and best practices in open data across the Federal government. PURPOSE The Roundtables supported the Federal goal to responsibly unleash government data for the … Continued.
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Liberating data for public value: The case of Data.gov
Data.gov
APRIL 12, 2016
Dear Open Data Enthusiasts, Below is an abstract of “Liberating data for public value: The case of Data.gov,” International Journal of Information Management (2016). Abstract Public agencies around the globe are liberating their data. Drawing on a case of Data.gov, … Continued.
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PubWorks Cloud FAQS
PubWorks Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
Per our customer agreements, backups are kept for the last three months, but at present, we have every backup taken since November 2016. Weekly/Monthly backups are stored in an offsite location with a redundant copy in a protected fire-resistant safe. Are there any additional licensing requirements or costs associated with PubWorks Cloud?
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Strathcona County Blazing A PBB Trail in Alberta, Canada
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
In 2016, Strathcona County had one of the lowest municipal tax increases in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. We achieved this balance by focusing on priorities, holding the line on spending, finding efficiencies and allocating a portion of the 2015 municipal surplus to 2016 budget needs in our community.
Call for Chapters: Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession (working title) #ACRL
A Library Writer's Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2022
She received her MLIS from North Carolina Central University in 2016 and her BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville in 2011.
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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
increase over 2016. Keep an eye on the CPBB blog for further updates. Another way to look at the resource shifts achieved by using PBB in the budgeting process is shown in Table 2-01 below.The most significant increase occurred in quartile 2 with a 9.8% City Unveils 2015 Budget Built Upon Fifth Straight Year of PBB!
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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc.,
CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
AUGUST 30, 2016
This is first part of a three-part blog series documenting the Priority Based Budgeting process that the City is undertaking, culminating in the launch of online tools that will enable a “new lens” on how the City can use it’s resources for good. In the next blog, we will continue to document the City’s progress towards these ends.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 2, 2016
He is a Senior Economist at the World Bank and the co-author, with Bruce Wydick, of a recent post on the Bank’s Development Impact blog on this topic. To examine these these questions and get a “101” on impact evaluation, we’re joined by David Evans ( @tukopamoja ). The interview covers: The concept of impact.
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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 4, 2023
Accelerating impact with the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program Since the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program launched in 2016, AWS has provided thousands of nonprofits around the world with computing credits and technical expertise. Larger nonprofit organizations can access $5,000 in AWS Promotional Credit annually.
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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education.
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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The market could be open later, but of course, not all the businesses would need to be open that late, especially the ones that sell fresh foods. -- " Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016 2. Allow the sales of alcohol. Right now places can't sell it.
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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 21, 2023
When Leyton-Brown and Newman began research into the computationally complex auction theory behind the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, their ML models required significantly more computing power than their on-premises infrastructure could provide.
What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands. I don't know if some apartment buildings have high quality bike parking. And don't muck it up with EV requirements.
ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
AUGUST 16, 2016
Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB. Keep an eye on the CPBB blog for further updates. Well, the world’s axis didn’t shift after those 10, but something else equally important took place: PBB was declared “best practice” by ICMA, urging all local governments to implement.
Bulgarian EdTech Shkolo uses AWS to reduce bureaucracy for administrators
AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Established in 2016, Shkolo offers software solutions for schools to optimize back-end administrative processes, allow parents to track their students’ achievements and make appointments with teachers, gamify how students can rate their teachers and assignments to promote engagement in school, and more.
Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
It fell into the same trap ," Washington Post ), reminds me that some of my earliest substantive blog writings concern WMATA and the Silver Line. The centrality of the center city as the foundation of the transit network is changing. == Improvements recommended in the original Silver Line program blog entry Overarching recommendations : 1.
Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
In 2016, CSS initially designed the CSP to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a traditional server-based architecture within a single AWS Region.
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The CPBB + ELGL Webinar Series - Applied PBB: P3's!
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Intro: November 15, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST What are partnerships and how PBB leads to unveiling opportunities around partnerships II. Public/Private Partnerships: December 13, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST CPBB to co-present with leading public-private local government provider Safebuilt III. The three individual webinars include: I.
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February 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
Microsoft Public Sector
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Learn more by reviewing features highlighted in the latest Intune What's new 2301(January) Blog and how the Intune service updates each month is described in the Microsoft Intune Service Updates Blog. We will continue to share additional guidance on IPv6 enablement in Azure AD here: IPv6 Support in Azure Active Directory.
Microsoft Collaboration Framework for the US Defense Industrial Base
Microsoft Public Sector
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
However, not all the features have been available to organizations that deploy into the US Sovereign Cloud when introduced in 2016. Here are my additional blog articles: Blog Title Aka Link New! The US Sovereign cloud was designed to protect US Government data from ending up in foreign adversary hands.
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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
The Vision Theater in Leimert Park Village will be a cultural anchor and will bring new customer segments to the commercial district throughout the day and into the evening, Photo from Horizon and Skyline blog. Also see " Leimert Theater: Envisioning a Neighborhood Landmark ," KCET.
With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
Also see: -- " How Sonoma County theaters are trying to survive in a post-COVID world ," Santa Rosa Press Democrat -- " New Pike Place Market venue aims to rekindle Seattle’s arts scene ," Crosscut -- " Seattle arts events are back, but audiences are hesitant ," Crosscut -- " What Does It Take to Run a Museum?
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