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Cooperative Purchasing: State Procurement Offices Prioritize Sustainability During Acquisitions

State Tech Magazine

Minnesotas Office of Enterprise Sustainability works to reduce energy and asset waste among the states government agencies. Established in 2017 and reaffirmed recently by Gov. Tim Walz, the office concentrates on supporting sustainability in six focus areas, one of which is procurement.

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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

With more than 85 percent of its governments workload now hosted in the cloud, Bahrains approach offers insights for other nations embarking on their own digital transformations. In 2017, the government introduced its Cloud First Policy, which acknowledged cloud computing as a key enabler for digital transformation.

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U.S. Immigration Courts See a Significant and Growing Backlog

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

This backlog has more than tripled since the start of fiscal year 2017. More than 2 million cases are pending in U.S. immigration courts. The effects of the backlog are significant and widespread. In particular, the backlog causes delays and poses.

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

It should be simple to build digital platforms that offer people reliable, clear ways to access government services such as healthcare, business registration, and welfare payments. DOS supported bespoke teams such as developers, researchers, designers, and delivery leaders to complement the in-house government team.

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EU government employees can build cloud skills with new, no-cost AWS learning plans

AWS Public Sector Blog

The learning plans are designed specifically for European Union (EU) government agencies and are part of AWS’s ongoing commitment to public sector customers. These tailored learning plans will help EU government employees build cloud skills and accelerate their agencies’ digital transformations. AWS has already trained more than 1.2

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) government transformation advisor, I’ve observed best practices that deliver success, and in this post, I summarize them.

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Cal Poly seeks to transform procurement process with generative AI-powered scope of work generation

AWS Public Sector Blog

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