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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

EJI and similar resources can help agencies with disaster response and guide them during normal operations when they’re designing future projects, evaluating risks or speaking with a community. In December 2022, the White House launched a similar nationwide project, the Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Dashboard.

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ARPA SLFRF Update: Interim Final Rule Expands Eligible Uses

Center for Community Progress

Natural Disaster Response and Mitigation: No expenditure limits. With this usage expansion, communities can use ARPA SLFRF for activities that could help reduce and prevent vacant properties. What are the expenditure limits? Capital expenditures exceeding $1 million are required to submit a Written Justification.

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Five need-to-know facts about using the AWS Cloud for K12 cyber-resiliency

AWS Public Sector Blog

Recently, AWS joined the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Education—among other leaders in the government and education community—to commit to improving the cybersecurity resilience of K12 education.

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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Joel House, founding partner at TBS, said “Having determined that the TBS application would run on the Linux operating system, we explored several Linux distributions before settling upon Amazon Linux 2 as the ideal platform for our web-based applications.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). The incessant, cumulative hammer-blow effect of disasters of all kinds on modern society had begun to stimulate a consistent demand for greater safety and security.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

It is highly relevant for organizations such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), which depends on timely and updated OSM data to support their global humanitarian and disaster response mapping charters, as well as organizations that provide value-added services and maps built from OSM data.