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. trillion in total capital and operational expenditure associated with our two AWS infrastructure Regions in the country.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 6, 2023

The State of Illinois just selected METRA as the operator, over Amtrak, to extend service from Elgin (the service emanates from Chicago) to Rockford (" Metra chosen to restore passenger rail to Rockford ," Rockford Journal-Star ). Massachusetts has a big advantage because offshore wind power to electrify the entire system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To become more sustainable, the health sector is turning to the cloud. While sustainability in healthcare encompasses environmental sustainability, it also considers how to design a sustainable care delivery system. This will rise to 96% as Amazon drives toward being powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

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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."

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

From 2010 to 2021, the county’s population grew by a whopping 33% to 429,000. between 2021 and 2022.” The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office’s HR team recognized that its method of performance evaluation, which was time-consuming and required extensive spreadsheets and paper forms, was no longer sustainable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

I think in the US, which is car dominated when it comes to mobility, high numbers of the electorate would vote against sustainable mobility measures--bicycling, transit (some cities vote in favor, others vociferously against), trails (Hamilton County/Cincinnati voted against a trail measure a few years ago), pedestrian improvements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

SFI has been providing application sustainment operations to FMCSA since April 2021. It’s achieved by using a modulo operator to determine every 10th nested stack to be created and adding the dependencies to an array for later use. This file must be accessible for nested stacks to deploy canary resources. py' -o -name '*.js')

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A 2021 white paper on information and communications by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications highlighted the gap between urban and local digital transformation initiatives in Japan, with urban areas making more progress and local areas lagging behind. Supporting digital transformation across Japan.

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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. At AWS, we are highly sensitive to the security needs of our customers in every location in which we operate.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Building institutional resiliency to maintain continuity of learning Home to nearly 75,000 students across 113 district-owned facilities, Austin Independent School District (AISD) uses a cloud roadmap to help sustain and improve operations in the school district. remote access to support teachers and students during remote learning.

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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. The Shinkansen are high speed rail services operating at a speed of 150-200 mph. Transit marketing for tourism.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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ResourceAssociates

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What started as a hopeful outlook going into 2020 quickly changed gears in mid- march , motivating many nonprofits to change their focus and work to provide and operate to the best of their capacity due to COVID restrictions. How will your program be sustainable? ? It ha s been a year to remember. Strategic Grant Program Design .

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore, AWS leaders and customers shared stories of how they’re innovating, improving citizens’ lives, transforming their operations, and creating technology that can scale for social good. On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 AWS Summit New Delhi. When it first launched, 1.9

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

WVLSC operates as the statewide land bank for VAD properties, including those that have known or suspected environmental issues, and takes title to those properties to prepare them for redevelopment. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2021, US President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that created the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP). While SLCGP is a four-year program, the whole-of-state effort needs to be sustained and optimized long after the four years of funding expires.

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The CIO Council

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Yet, in our efforts to satisfy this drive for greater innovation, we often overlook the risks that come with deploying cutting-edge technology while sustaining what we already have. We have come to expect that security is already built-in and that it will operate “automagically” to keep us safe. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Soon after, it deployed the program in two universities for pilot testing, completing the build phase in August 2021. Lee’s team tackled this challenge by conducting interviews and surveys with samples of customers, restaurant owners, and cafeteria operators. Reducing waste to make an environmental impact.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

According to the EIS, AWS operations will add an estimated ZAR 68 billion more to South Africa’s GDP by 2029. AWS’s investment impacts other parts of the South African economy as well, helping develop the next generation of workforce, digitally transform businesses, and promote sustainability throughout the country.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In addition, when sourcing solutions, we require vendor risk and readiness assessments to ensure the vendor has the right security controls and operating procedures to minimize risk as well as respond accordingly to issues. This article was originally published on GovDevSecOps Hub on November 15, 2021.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Second, involving loan officers and their operations teams during the loan process substantially reduces the laborious and expensive process of try to find qualifying loans right before the examination (aka “ mining ” for loans.) . First, it provides a strong support of effective and efficient identification of CD loans.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 27, 2022

Folks might also be interested in the report from the (new) Committee on Sustainability because I know that is of interest to many in this state. link] member-news/2021/07/alas- committee-diversity-announces- diversity-equity-and- inclusion-dei-scorecard. We approved the budget and approved the operating agreement. link] ethics.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

But there isn't a rush to expand it, or to create conditions where sustainable modes are first choice for getting around. I wrote about this wrt DC and Maryland and I-270/DC arterials (" Washington Post letter to the editor on repair-related closure of Rockville and Shady Grove Stations and corridor management ," 2021").

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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

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. They remade it into a full park circle.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

The cloud offers transformative solutions to address sustainability challenges, enabling organizations to increase productivity, efficiency, and cost savings, as well as reduce emissions and waste. “…The climate crisis is caused by us – and the solutions must come from us. We have the tools: technology is on our side.”. Monitoring our Earth.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Since privatization, more than half the net profit has been returned as dividends to the private owners, while investment in infrastructure languishes (" Water privatization: a dirty story about profit ," " Watery grave ," and " Water firms exist to sustain life. From " Water firms exist to sustain life.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Texas’ grid operator on Friday released its predictions for peak electricity use in Texas for this winter that showed steep shortfalls in power capacity in an extreme event, despite not accounting for February’s deadly freeze. But what about the people without the means to protect themselves by buying large stocks of water and generators?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

During the keynote, two Canadian public sector customers—Shared Services Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency—took to the stage to share their stories about how they are leveraging AWS to accelerate innovation, improve citizens’ lives, transform their operations, and drive their missions forward at scale. Digital transformation is continuous.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

See White House Factsheet, January 7, 2015, “Making Homeownership More Accessible and Sustainable,” next to the last section. In the 2017-18 period, as F&F operations under conservatorship continued to improve, the two companies effectively rehabilitated their reputations in the industry. mortgage system.]]

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