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ASTERRA helps build a more sustainable Earth by identifying and mitigating ‘lost water’ using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Combining satellite imagery and AI in the cloud for a more sustainable future Identifying and repairing water leaks helps municipalities reduce risk for human populations and the environment, and save money. Since 2017, ASTERRA has successfully verified more than 100,000 leaks, saving 368 billion gallons of water.

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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

It set the groundwork for economic sustainability through technology-driven innovation. In 2017, the government introduced its Cloud First Policy, which acknowledged cloud computing as a key enabler for digital transformation.

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Colorado Springs Continues Quest to Be ‘Smartest of Smart Cities’

State Tech Magazine

Since 2017, Colorado Springs, Colo., has pushed to adopt emerging technologies to become smarter, safer and more sustainable. Leading that charge is Colorado Springs’ Office of Innovation and Colorado Springs Utilities, which work with public and private organizations to implement smart utilities, solutions and services.

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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

When moving from on-premises to AWS in 2017, PNNL designed the Aether framework to embrace AWS-managed services and serverless technologies wherever possible, largely bypassing a lift-and-shift migration. Iterating on each instance of the framework, the PNNL team developed IaC, dramatically improving time to deployment and instantiation.

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017.

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Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

They deeply and fundamentally understand how to implement and utilize PBB, and their community has benefited tremendously from the city's continued and evolved implementation of PBB. Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget. A listing of all 2017 programs by quartile is included in the following section.