AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These one-on-one consulting engagements have covered topics such as developing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and maximizing profitability with AWS in public sector. These solutions included summarization, information extraction, sentiment analysis, topic classification, and data visualization.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Traditional security mechanisms are unable to harness the massive array of data sources, which can shed light on where risks are developing and how they can be managed. The hand of malicious insiders seems to have been at work in at least two of these incidents, which reflects the dangers that lurk internally for many government departments.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

A property tax exemption in New York City is necessary to make rental housing development financially feasible across the city’s varied markets, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

His role as Enterprise Sales Representative for the UK and Ireland means he is responsible for selling into large accounts. That was in December 2020, just as the year ended, and people were happy to celebrate Christmas. They then used the breached account and that password, and they were in. Dan Bowdery also works at Semperis.

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Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. To ensure users can rely on Moodle to continue delivering connected experiences, Google Cloud's Customer Engineers have developed an open-source, cloud-native approach for hosting Moodle. Institutions had to work quickly to support this shift.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The creation of the National Cyber Force in 2020 and the release of the National Cyber Strategy 2022 represented both a significant step up in our offensive cyber capability and a renewed focus on supporting the public sector’s defensive cyber capabilities. We often hear that people represent the weakest link in security.

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. DoD based its 2020 data strategy on eight guiding principles that can serve as a useful model for other organizations in creating their own policies. Here are ways to carry out each principle.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I founded SibsForever in August 2020. Any surviving sibling can go to SibsForever.org to create a no-cost account and build commemorative web pages for their sibling and sibling relationship, including photo and video galleries featuring themselves and their siblings. Building a low-cost application with the support of AWS.

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GovLoop

JULY 11, 2023

They only had about a month to apply for this money, and we got over $900 million in grant requests,” said Autumn Coleman, DNRC’s resource development bureau chief. This all plays out against the state’s rapid population growth, enough for the 2020 Census results to earn Montana a new congressional seat.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. In 2020, there were 6,146 veteran suicides, which averages to 16.8 To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

AWS serverless services such as AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate , Amazon Aurora , and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enable developers to build applications that can respond to variable load, with lower running costs during quieter times.

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Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

Over time, I developed hacks and systems to make myself more efficient, especially by organizing my boilerplate content in ways that allowed me to modularize my grant writing to reuse content blocks. Margit: I can appreciate the time and effort it took to develop this level of user-friendly software.

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Government Technology Insider

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Following the discovery of a breach in December 2020, SolarWinds, for example, created a resource center as a home base to post findings and other important lessons learned. This level of openness and candidness can add accountability and ensure a heightened security posture. Technology presents incalculable mission-critical benefits.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

General Services Administration (GSA), which helps run the federal Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), developed criteria for distributing funding to federal agencies. ACT-IAC recommends developing a high- fidelity prototype to test technical feasibility and get stakeholder buy-in. Here are some ways of looking at them.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

2022) finds that although public housing authorities account for a greater share of eviction filings than their share of the total renter population nationally, the percentage of evictions filed was on par with those filed by private landlords within individual markets. One study (Gromis et al., Two other studies (Harrison et al.,

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

FindTime for Outlook: FindTime is a meeting scheduling tool developed by a group of developers at Microsoft. Loom has a free, basic account that will allow you to try it out and test for different use cases. Screenshot from loom.com website, march 2020.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Context and journey to AWS January 2020 marked nearly three years in the San Francisco Bay Area for me, where I was focused on developing and leading the technical curriculum for an enterprise software company’s global pre-sales training program.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Georgia DHS developed an iterative cloud strategy that would allow them to think big, start small, and scale fast. Establish an AWS foundation In 2020, the Georgia DHS began to plan and consolidate environments and selected AMS from AWS to provide the necessary cloud framework for migration.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

In 2020, most of the world suffered negative economic shocks as the uncertainty of a new disease stunned human societies and resulted in significant GDP downturns for many counties. Among the many questions and concerns that have emerged since early 2020, the impact of the virus-caused shock on fertility rates is particularly interesting.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, most analysis and data processing today is slow and resource intensive, relying too much on people, when much of it could be off-loaded more effectively with AI, as long as it is developed and implemented responsibly. In 2020, countries globally spent $1.9 Using emerging technologies to enhance defence.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Although the rate of foreclosure in Cuyahoga County had declined as of 2020, much remedial work remains unfinished.

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ResourceAssociates

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What started as a hopeful outlook going into 2020 quickly changed gears in mid- march , motivating many nonprofits to change their focus and work to provide and operate to the best of their capacity due to COVID restrictions. by Resource Associates @ grantwriters.net. Grant Questions? Let’s talk. info@grantwriters.net 505-326-4245.

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 25, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology reports dozens of new cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures daily that, if unaddressed, could result in large-scale breaches such as the 2020 SolarWinds attack. Key players. Thankfully, federal leaders do not take on this burden alone. Bringing everyone together.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 19, 2022

Of course, I had to take the specifics of the job description into account. This article originally appeared on August 5, 2020. Focus on the transferrable skills. For me, the key to changing sectors was focusing on the skills I had that would apply to government. Favorite.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Are you looking to take your community development services to the next level? Episode 44: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services. Episode 44: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services. Episode 38: Haven’t Developed a CRA Plan Yet? Build your CRA plan.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human review systems or managing large numbers of human reviewers. get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s")) get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3") client('sts').get_caller_identity().get('Account')

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With the rise of COVID-19 in 2020, telephone fundraising experienced a significant boost , with fundraising agencies reporting an increase in engagement from callers who suddenly had the time and willingness to talk on the phone during lockdown. Is telephone fundraising still relevant?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prerequisites For this solution, make sure you have completed the following prerequisites: Access to an AWS account with appropriate permissions to access below services using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Upload the dataset to the S3 bucket in your AWS account and enable access to the bucket for SageMaker Canvas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, not every contribution is compatible with the specific use cases of some companies, which is why the maps team at Meta developed Daylight Map.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 10, 2022

There is no question technology has improved the ability of Community and Economic Development (CED) professionals to provide services. The program provides participants with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT), which send money directly from a government funded account to a food retailer—like a debit card.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Hartnell College is a public community college located in Salinas, California, with over 7,500 undergraduates enrolled (2020–2021). Dr. Pham and her team had a long-term vision to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and were in the midst of developing their cloud strategy to facilitate the modernization.

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

As states consider tax-based approaches to bridging the gap, businesses and individuals will need to alter their strategic planning to account for potential tax increases. Join us on December 8, 2020, from 1-2:30 p.m EST for Tax Policy and Planning: How States Propose to Bridge COVID-19 Revenue Shortfall. and New York City.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 14, 2022

percentage point drop from 2020. Provide continued support for supervisors and increase accountability for senior leaders to improve. Retaining and developing this cohort is critical to building long-term talent pipelines. out of 100, a 4.5 Supervisors drew a rating of 79.8 out of 100 when judged on their leadership.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Accordingly, local government programs should account for federal rules prohibiting “duplication of benefits” (or DOB) from other sources. In federal housing and community development programs, including CDBG-DR, moderate income is defined as households earning no more than 80% of the area median income (AMI). [3] 157-3(15b).

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. Defence becomes attack.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26]

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