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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2015, the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers and partners improve their cloud architectures and reduce their technical risk. In its development process, the Government Lens was tested with government leaders and AWS Partners, whose feedback has been incorporated in this launch.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, not every contribution is compatible with the specific use cases of some companies, which is why the maps team at Meta developed Daylight Map.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

Participants were asked to use their creativity, intelligence, and technical skills to build sustainability solutions using data from ASDI on Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab , or any AWS Cloud services, to build solutions that support one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations (UN).

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Cybrary: Closing the cybersecurity skills gap with affordable tools and training

Google Public Sector

Founded in 2015, the EdTech company provides specialized, online, cybersecurity skills development and has enabled more than 3 million learners, ranging from individuals to small businesses and Fortune 1000 organizations, to defend against today’s threats. Cybrary is working to address these challenges.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

According to the MarketLinks blog, Sustainable Public Procurement and the Business Environment , “taxpayers around the world are increasingly holding governments accountable to spend public funds for their social and economic benefit in a sustainable manner. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. Specifically, SDG 12.7

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight. More of that, please."

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. What began as an effort to smooth the journey among offices and programs within VA is being extended to other federal departments that also affect veterans, such as Defense, Housing and Urban Development, and Education.