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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2015, the Singapore government launched the SkillsFuture Movement —a national movement to provide Singapore’s citizens with opportunities to develop to their fullest potential regardless of where and how they started in life. Introduced in 2015, all Singaporeans aged 25 and above can receive an opening SkillsFuture credit of S$500.

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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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Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

AWS Public Sector Blog

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities. Customer asset locations (in this example, a sample of U.S.

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Icometrix helps to detect and treat neurological diseases with AI imaging, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

To address this, icometrix developed a machine learning (ML)-based analysis pipeline. By 2015, however, icometrix noticed that these ML-based pipelines were reaching their limits regarding accuracy of the measurements and computation time. A new pipeline was developed using a hybrid approach.

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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.