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EU government employees can build cloud skills with new, no-cost AWS learning plans

AWS Public Sector Blog

The announcement comes as EU institutions increasingly embrace cloud technologies to enhance delivery of public services. million people across the European Union on cloud skills since 2017. AWS has seen strong adoption of its cloud solutions by EU government customers seeking security, scalability, and innovation.

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January 2017 | Thinking about Undergraduate Education in Public Affairs, By Mary K. Feeney*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Here, I outline some of the challenges and opportunities we face as we work to develop top-notch undergraduate programs that advance public service. Especially for public universities, there is a need to generate revenue and students in seats translate to revenue. What We Gain from Undergraduate Programs.

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Spotlighting true public servants during Public Service Recognition Week: Part 2

Partnership for Public Service

During Public Service Recognition Week 2024, the Partnership for Public Service shined a spotlight on dedicated individuals who work behind the scenes to serve their communities and country. Before starting at NOAA in 2017, Hassett was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga and AmeriCorps volunteer in Pittsburgh.

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26 May 2017 | Should Public Management be an Experimental Discipline?, By Oliver James

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

For example, experiments have shown that priming citizens to think about their need for a public service rather than encouraging a political mind-set can reduce party political based motivated reasoning in assessing performance information as evidence about service quality.

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22 October 2017 | Tear Down the Distinction Between Applied and Basic Research in Public Management, By Lotte B. Andersen

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Living in a well-functioning democracy, I actually see it as an honour to try to use my research to increase public service performance – and I acknowledge that politicians also want a say in how we understand performance.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Working on revitalization in DC, where the National Park Service runs many of the "local" parks, general federal-local government issues, and being on the board of Eastern Market public market for 13 years definitely prepared me for the kinds of issues present here. -- " Revisiting Trust for Public Land's Park Score® methodology " (2017) -- " Federal (..)

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Another lost opportunity in parks planning: Joint Management Plan for Cromwell Valley Park; Lock Raven Reservoir; and the Northern Central Trail in Baltimore County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the planning process, there was a lot of tension around LRR over mountain biking, because it could get dirt into the water (" Loch'd Out: Loch Raven Reservoir MTB Riding ," BIKE Magazine , 2017, " Deal will expand mountain biking at Loch Raven Reservoir ," Baltimore Sun , 2017) which has been a problem dating to the late 1990s.