AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Solutions developed by and for these communities have the potential to create meaningful change in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2021, AWS launched the AWS Health Equity Initiative , a $40 million, three-year global commitment designed to support innovations in this space.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

There is a much stronger focus on sustainability, including a dedicated Lot for recycling, data wiping and secure disposal. Lot 7 – Sustainability and Circular I.T. TePAS 2: Customer and supplier engagement TePAS 2 was developed through individual supplier and customer meetings, webinars and in-person events beginning in October 2021.

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First State Insights

MARCH 15, 2021

Topics covered in this February 25, 2021 interview include the benefits and challenges of green infrastructure, and Delaware Sea Grant’s efforts and partnerships towards furthering green infrastructure in Delaware.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When Community Progress’ National Land Bank Network (NLBN) conducted its first national land bank survey in 2021, land banks across the country told us they wanted to move beyond a focus on individual properties and transactions to find ways to make transformational change in their communities.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a significant new resource on local food system development (discussed below) was released just this morning. Reducing Market Barriers to Sustainable Farm/Food Businesses: A Business/Consumer Perspective . This program targets both economic development and community development. Historically, perhaps not as much.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Betsey Suchanic, Senior Program Manager with the Urban Libraries Council, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about local libraries' critical community economic development roles.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Max shared regional announcements and local stories of how public sector customers are using the cloud to transform citizen services, innovate in healthcare, improve sustainability, and more. But the 2021 Census faced a specific challenge: how to collect Census data when over half of the population was in COVID-19-related lockdown?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

A significant benefit of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) for North Carolina CED professionals is the availability of funding for investment in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure though the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRS). Where and how is that local government money being invested? Public Space 12.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting Japan’s digital transformation (DX) ambition by helping Japanese customers modernize IT and innovate securely at pace, driving sustainable economic growth. We are also focused on helping our customers meet their sustainability goals with cloud technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business (TBSB) partner program. Since March 2021, over 400 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program. Sustainable Cities Accelerator for Infrastructure cohort startups selected. Open source software available through AWS Solution Spark.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

in parts of New England, Washington State, California, Maryland, etc.). -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 Transformational Projects Action Planning. Transit oriented development is economic development. Watching the program was seeing TPAS in action. Wkipedia photo.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

The review highlights how new research developments can facilitate a shift towards "upstream," or preventative, homelessness interventions, while making necessary "downstream" emergency services more equitable and effective. 2021 ; Gubits et al. Root Causes. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).

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The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2021

Jaime Lerner passed away on May 27, 2021. A world-renowned Brazilian urbanist, he was three times mayor of Curitiba and two times governor of the southern state of Paraná. Besides his great ideas, he was a very kind person and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

In June 2021, the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team selected OSK as part of the four-week AWS Space Accelerator program to provide guidance on how best to make huge amounts of data about pipelines usable and actionable with cloud computing and analytics technologies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 6, 2023

I have written about how Pennsylvania with SEPTA, Massachusetts with MBTA, and Maryland with MARC (" A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program in Maryland ," 2019) could use their regional railroad commuter systems as the foundation to develop statewide railroad passenger programs.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

A digital transformation journey can transform agencies into sustainable digital service organizations that deliver greater value to their customers. Focus on delivering short-term outcomes while also building sustainable service delivery. This post first appeared on December 8, 2021. Photo by Pixabay at pexels.com. Favorite.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS Health Equity Initiative as a three-year, $40 million commitment to help solve gaps in health equity. According to the Atlas of African Health Statistics , nearly 99 percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Jacaranda Health is looking to help reduce these numbers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to a Gartner survey in 2021, digitally advanced government organizations realize more benefits of modernization, including higher efficiency, cost reductions, greater workforce productivity, compliance, and transparency. Continue the momentum by scaling digitization. Staying secure with the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) 2022 Digital Competitiveness Index, Japan ranked 29th out of 63 countries, down one place from last year’s ranking. In September 2021, the Japanese government established the Digital Agency to promote and lead in accelerating digital transformation in Japan.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In 2021, more than 42,000 people died in roadway crashes in the US. To achieve its goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injury collisions on city streets by 2030, the Bellevue City Council developed and approved the Safe System approach. Safe s treets and r oads for a ll. W ork ing B ackwards to Vision Zero.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Note that Atlanta, BART, and Miami had problems of their own--certain suburban counties refused to participate for both Atlanta and BART, and Miami's route planners designed the system to serve areas they wanted to develop, rather than to ensure that service was also provided to key activity centers.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 13, 2022

It directly manages 193 million acres and supports sustainable management on a total of 500 million acres of private, state, and tribal lands. Using both historical and current data, the Forest Service built new products, workflows, and tools that help more effectively and sustainably manage our natural resources.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 23, 2022

Note that property interests are concerned about the decline in transit quality generally as a potential hindrance to their getting tenants (" The Orange Line shutdown puts developers building by the T in a tricky spot ," Boston Globe ). -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said with the closure, other transit options should be free. But I doubt it.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Stabilisation was due to give way to peacekeeping and development when the earthquake struck the country and abruptly reversed the gains achieved. [i] Shelter may be 'innovative' or 'inspiring' to an architect from a highly developed country, but it could equally be detestable and impractical to the potential user.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In reality, it’s likely a mix of factors, including more speeding, heavier vehicles, dense development concentrated around multilane roads, and a decrease in traffic enforcement. In Washington, 75% of deadly crashes in 2022 involved one or more of the “fatal four”: impairment, distraction, speeding, and not wearing seat belts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

AWS Partners Mphasis and Fractal–two companies at the forefront of developing quantum computing capabilities–will extend their support to MeitY and AWS to evaluate research proposals and mentor the research applicants in the second cohort. The MeitY QCAL will accept applications for the second cohort later this month.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 India has one of the largest developer user bases in the world and the third largest startup network. This network is augmented and supported by large scale government programs like the National Skills Development Center ( NSDC ). When it first launched, 1.9

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Jacaranda Health , a Kenya-based nonprofit organization, is on a mission to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths by deploying low-cost, sustainable solutions that improve the quality of care in government health systems.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), more than 1,100 cities representing a quarter of global CO2 emissions signed up to the Cities Race to Zero. Cities have never been more engaged on climate action. In doing so, they committed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2021, the state of North Carolina decided to reduce the burden of technology service management for the UNC System so that universities could focus on their goal of broadening affordable learning opportunities for adults. Starting with its customers and working backwards, the team mapped all the requirements to the software design.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

To further their efforts, the AWS Education Champions will receive professional development and thought leadership opportunities, increased visibility in a vast network of peers and other education leaders, and access to travel grants to attend industry events to present their experiences and lessons learned.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 2, 2023

The workbook provides users with a flexible process to consider climate change information and to develop climate adaptation management plans that align with current land management objectives. Data is drawn from the Climate Change Response Framework and all climate impact statements in this tool have citations and links to further reading.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Garforth 2021.

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