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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education. SkillsFuture Singapore provides citizens with training opportunities and more.

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How to shore up data protection beyond cyber security policies and standards

Open Access Government - Technology News

Aberdeenshire Council had 243 data breaches between 2020 and 2022. A case in point appears to be Aberdeenshire Council, which revealed in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that some 243 breaches occurred between January 2020 and March 2022 – with that figure representing an upward trend.

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Digital and cloud skills programs for the Future Workforce launch in Australia and Thailand

Google Public Sector

Around 78% of business leaders in Thailand put digitalization as a key strategy in 2021, while the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs Report 2020” showed that only 55% of workers in Thailand are literate in the required digital skills for future work. trillion (USD79.5 billion) in annual economic value by 2030. trillion (USD79.5

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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Participating in CRF better equips fellows to advocate for and lead change that addresses systemic property vacancy.

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AWS re/Start MENA celebrates successful first year

AWS Public Sector Blog

in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% AWS re/Start is a no-cost, cohort-based, workforce development training program that first launched in the MENA region in June 2021. Closing the digital skills gap is a priority for the private and public sector, and government entities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Improving software security in the public sector

Open Access Government - Technology News

Attacks like the SolarWinds hack in 2020, whose Orion IT software used by thousands of government agencies worldwide was infected with malicious software, raised the alarm for state actors worldwide about the need for strong nation-level cybersecurity strategies.