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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C C as possible. This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries.

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Hydrating the Natural History Museum’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector

For a deep dive into this use case, also watch the re:Invent 2023 session on Building next-generation sustainability workloads with open data (SUS304). This publicly available data (via the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative , or ASDI) exists as parquet files and is stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket.

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How many federal manufacturing contracts actually go to small business anyhow?

Federal News Network

But, you know, the issue is obviously creating a massive end around the rule generally erodes the ability for manufacturers to develop the capacity to actually deliver these products. So, we’re going to have, you know, United Acme Steelworks make it, but it’s going to be sold to us through mom-and-pop distribution.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

The team developed a three-pronged strategy: talk to MSMEs and build their capacity to bid on contracts; simplify the bidding process for smaller businesses; and use innovative technology to better measure and manage opportunities for small business vendors.

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It’s time to evolve IT procurement

AWS Public Sector

On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity. Figure 2 shows the AWS Cloud Value Framework: cost, productivity, resilience, agility, sustainability. Cloud solutions adjust resources in real time, minimizing excess costs and capitalizing on market opportunities.

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5G as a Digital Transformation Accelerant

FedInsider

And the advent of 5G Advanced supports new use cases and verticals, such as extended-reality (XR) devices, sustainable network design, quantum communication, and new models for edge/fog computing. Upon leaving the Navy, Mark began his civilian career with Marconi Communications working as a pre-sales/post-sales Systems Engineer.

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Interviews with Our Editors: South Africa in the Spotlight with Svetlana Vasileva-Stratenwerth, Secretary General at the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) International

Kluwer Arbitration

In this capacity, I am dedicated to making a significant contribution to international arbitration, drawing upon my extensive experience to bolster AFSA’s position in the industry. AFSA sustains its operations through administrative fees without relying on any external funding.