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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center. Since then, AWS has invested ZAR 15.6 View a larger version of the image here.

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Why Fugaku, Japan’s fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Fugaku, a name familiar to many in Japan, is the supercomputer developed by Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in collaboration with Fujitsu , as a result of the Japanese government’s national policy. In April 2018, he was appointed as the director of R-CCS, where he oversaw the supercomputer’s development.

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Economic Development Administration (EDA) with strong bipartisan support. 3891) , the first in 20 years, is included as part of the Water Resources Development Act (S. Planning activities related devising, implementing, and updating a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) are eligible for funding.

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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to calculate success rates for housing choice voucher recipients. The chart below shows annual success rates nationally from 2018-2022. Both metrics are important for understanding how the Housing Choice Voucher program is operating.

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Announcing the 2023-2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners

AWS Public Sector Blog

This year’s winners of the Go Further, Faster award include: Crisis Text Line is developing applications based on large language models (LLMs), to enhance highly-nuanced crisis conversations at a level of depth and speed not attainable in the past, ultimately decreasing time to intervention for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.

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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing

AWS Public Sector Blog

We have long invested in developing capabilities and services tailored to the unique privacy and security needs of the healthcare sector, and we are committed to supporting open source, open data, and open standard communities. The government’s eHealth strategy aims to improve digital services and data sharing for integrated care.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. They also agree to actively participate in the data governance framework, providing oversight of the chief data officer’s data sharing operations as a designated Trustee. The solution involved multiple AWS services. “We