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Leveraging Libraries to End the Digital Divide

State Tech Magazine

With the first installment of federal deployment and digital equity planning funds in hand, more than a dozen states have kicked off coordinated efforts with federal, state and local leaders in pursuit of internet for all. Leveraging America’s libraries can avoid duplication of work and accelerate progress.

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Forrester study commissioned by AWS estimates an ROI of 33% from data integration

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Helping micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises make economic and societal impacts with cloud technologies

AWS Public Sector Blog

To address these challenges and realize the potential of a cloud-enabled economy, increased coordination from governments, educators, and industries worldwide is required. Since 2019, the program has provided more than $2 billion in AWS credits to help startups manage costs, get technical expertise, industry training, and business mentorship.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In another Medium post from 2019 , Graham MacDonald, Urban CIO, wrote, “Researchers should always choose the right programming language for the right job. To simplify the user experience for the SEDT tool, Urban used AWS Step Functions to orchestrate and coordinate workflows.

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Detroit needs a transformational projects action plan for the Renaissance Center, the adjoining waterfront and business district, and transit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In coordination with already underway proposals the Detroit-Ann Arbor Innovation corridor proposal (" Detroit-Ann Arbor link vital to future of Michigan's tech economy ," Crain's Detroit Business ) Belle Isle revitalization (a park in the river, now run by the state). Conclusion. But they aren't there yet.

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33 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data for Earth Day and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

It provides hourly and daily deterministic estimates, and daily probabilistic estimates for global land areas from 1950 to 2019 at 0.1 The Ensemble Meteorological Dataset for Planet Earth (EM-Earth) was developed to address these limitations and meet the diverse requirements for global hydro-meteorological applications. degree grids.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

He most recently served as the 11th Commander of United States Special Operations Command, where he led the coordinated efforts of the special operations forces across all military branches. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. AmeriCares, and others.