AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, Pennsylvania State University ( Penn State ) began looking for a better way to meet the needs of its digital-native student population—specifically, a seamless way to connect students with on-campus resources. Student interest was high and Penn State captured detailed feedback from student testers who used the app every day.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

In 2019, the city of Lodi, Calif., was hit by ransomware attacks, which prompted CIO Benjamin Buecher to upgrade the city’s defenses. “A A few years back, we were hit by three attacks in three months by the same ransomware,” Buecher says in a Rubrik case study. The attack significantly impacted our municipal services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

AWS launched the Bahrain Region in 2019, which enabled Bahraini organizations to store and process data locally and benefit from world-class cloud capabilities. The partnership with AWS marked a pivotal moment for Bahrains digital modernization.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2019, only 12 states had established the position. By 2022, 21 states had appointed chief privacy officers, spotlighting the growing importance of the role, according to a report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

When Mohammed Al Rawi joined the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office as its first CIO in 2019, reducing the organization’s paper use and making case-related information easier to access were central goals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When AWS launched these CJIS Security compliance innovations in early 2019, we did so with reference to our AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can confidently deploy CJIS workloads in either AWS (US) region, while maintaining access to simple and powerful cloud native tools to manage the full lifecycle of sensitive data.

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Public Administration Associates

APRIL 8, 2025

Dave Bretl , a PAA partner and Vice President since 2019, has assumed the role of interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Legal Counsel. Chris Swartz, who has served as a partner and PAA Secretary-Treasurer since 2019, has become a PAA Senior Associate, and partner Kevin Brunner continues as President.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Our latest analysis of the aviation value chain shows many subsectors performing ahead of 2019 levels.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released in 2019 , 70 percent of students in grade three remain behind grade level, 57 percent of students in grade nine cannot solve a simple division problem, and almost 50 percent of students drop out of the school system before reaching tenth grade.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When Shannon Lawson came to Phoenix as CISO in 2019, the city was using endpoint protection products he’d never even heard of. At the recommendation of other cybersecurity professionals, Lawson decided to test CrowdStrike products and services in the city’s environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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Summer Camp Programming

JUNE 5, 2024

SHOW NOTES In this farewell episode of ‘SCamp Life: The Programming Side,’ Curt and Chris reminisce about the podcast’s journey since 2019. They recount key moments, favorite episodes, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from over the years.

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OpenGov

MAY 15, 2022

Originally published September 10, 2019. Updated with new information. What is a capital improvement plan (CIP) ? What should a CIP include? Why is a capital improvement plan important? Read on to get the answers to these questions and more. Capital Improvement Planning FAQs What Is A Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) ?

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Summer Camp Programming

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Chris and Curt go all the way back to 2019 to redo an episode they’ve already done! SHOW NOTES Episode 171 goes back to Episode 2 to “Remix” it! With new ideas, updated stuff, as well as just informing their listeners of great stuff 169 episodes ago, the podcast this week is a blast! Listen […].

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

By 2019, the cloud supported SMEs that used £1.3 In 2019, ChileCompra redesigned how to buy computers, data services, and software development. By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09 billion ($1.65 billion) of AWS services alone through the UK government digital marketplace. They reduced contracts from six years to nine months.

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Summer Camp Programming

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

SHOW NOTES This week’s episode is a remix from episode 13 way back in 2019. The Pre-Covid days)! The guys give 8 great ideas for camp-wide games that you can play with the whole camp! This episode is a great listen to update some of your current games!

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

The city of Benbrook moved its phone system to the cloud in 2019, he said, giving the government an opportunity to transition employees to a computer-based phone, or soft phone. But employees didn’t like the idea, so each Benbrook city employee retained a physical handset — a familiar…

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

And "transit city" as an urban form encompasses sustainable modes of transportation--walking, biking, and transit--based on the concepts expressed in " Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropoli s " by Peter Muller.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Across the globe, 44 percent of the people enrolled in Coursera courses are now women, up from 35 percent in 2019. Enrollment among women learners on the Coursera platform has increased worldwide between 2019 and 2022, with the United States seeing an increase that is higher than the global average.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2019, CSS released a major feature as part of go-live to support a 4-hour recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) of zero to support zero data loss requirements, using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) cross-Region replication. Key performance indicators for CSS cloud value.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This year, over 3,600 local elected officials, partners and municipal staff from 49 states, DC, and Puerto Rico traveled to Kansas City, MO for our first in-person City Summit since 2019. Attendees spent three days attending sessions on the most pressing issues facing America’s cities, towns, and villages.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 20, 2023

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute provides a more nuanced, long-term view of Nigeria’s development progress from 2000 to 2019 that may help the country shape its future direction.

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The City Fix

MARCH 2, 2020

In April 2019, Porto Alegre worked with WRI Brasil to implement the first segment of a tactical urbanism project that transformed a key intersection of busy João Alfredo Street, which runs through the heart of the Cidade Baixa neighborhood. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2022

billion people, close to half of the world’s population, lived in microregions with living standards equivalent to the top 21 percent in 2000.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In 2019, AWS launched the AWS Equity Equivalent Investment Program (EEIP) in South Africa , to pursue its mission to invest over $20 million (ZAR 365 million) in developing 100% black-owned small information and communications technology (ICT) and digital economy businesses in the country through December 2026.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 21, 2025

San Diego in 2019 eliminated parking minimums for houses of worship and permitted them to replace parking lots with residential developments. Other cities, like Detroit and Boston, have provided development financing to help FBOs repurpose the houses of worship or land they own into affordable housing.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

billion in 2019). Along with the promise to completely transform the digital landscape, 5G — the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks — will bring changes to cybersecurity practices and protection as well. 5G download speeds are expected to be 100 times faster than currently possible with 4G.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 22, 2025

David joined Texans on Mission in 2019. David joined Texans on Mission in 2019. As a pastor in Missouri, he led shower, chainsaw, laundry, and feeding response team among Missouri Baptists, eventually becoming associate director for Disaster Relief for the Missouri Baptist Convention. Please visit our sponsors!

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 1, 2025

Lowering the likelihood of cyber incidents The UK has already seen significant disruptions due to cyber incidents, with attacks costing the economy nearly 22 billion annually between 2015 and 2019. The Synnovis attack, which targeted a pathology service provider to the NHS, disrupted thousands of patient appointments and cost an estimated 32.7

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 25, 2023

In 2019/20, the overwhelming majority (84.9%) of all learners starting an apprenticeship were white; this was even with a 12.3% And the number of BAME apprentices is falling; from 2018/19 to 2019/20, the number of starts by apprentices from BAME backgrounds fell by over 6,000. In 2019, only 16% were female employees.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Here is a full list of the datasets released or significantly updated this quarter joining over 350 datasets already available: Agriculture: Cropland Extent Map (2019) from Digital Earth Africa. Along with screenshots, the project includes English language Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text, and a collection of ML models.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Icelandic Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs launched an ambitious initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of public services in Iceland in 2019. Learn more about Iceland’s digital transformation journey in this AWS Institute video series.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A single community went from 28 fatal overdoses in January through March of 2019 to zero in April and May as a result of the coordinated actions of law enforcement, public safety, health services, and community leaders. The application of data integration can save lives in addition to money.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

His office also has worked toward a whole-of-state security approach, as per a 2019 North Dakota law that gave the cyberteam command-and-control over cybersecurity in all branches of state government. “Controls that we put in, historically, to try to prevent … problems can now very easily be bypassed with AI,” Gregg said.

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