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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

For many agencies, the challenge is learning to communicate those insights effectively. Their research supports policy development around a wide array of issues, from transportation, energy and natural resources to education and housing. Its not enough to dig up good data.

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Insights from Big Data on How COVID-19 Is Changing Society

The City Fix

Between the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, our ability to understand the effects of infectious diseases has increased exponentially. Networked personal devices and automated sensors are now ubiquitous, not to mention communications technologies like the internet that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

On the other hand, understanding emergency processes for response develops resilience to risk. Public safety technology includes public safety platforms First, managing communications properly and responding to a crisis in an organised manner requires a holistic and well-coordinated approach.

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How Penn State built an all-in-one campus resource app on Modo Labs’ development platform using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The right platform for efficient app development “We chose Modo Labs because it offered easy tools for creating a mobile experience that would help us consolidate all the resources that we had,” says Ryan Seilhamer, product owner of Penn State Go. Creating our own custom integrations was something that we didn’t see on other platforms.”

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AWS commits additional $20M to tackle health equity disparities through cloud technology

AWS Public Sector Blog

From helping build more diverse health data stores to using artificial intelligence (AI) for early stroke diagnoses, these organizations are developing solutions that are changing the game for populations with otherwise limited access.” Jacaranda Health is looking to help reduce these numbers.

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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. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The first film to represent Prince George’s that came to mind for her was a 2020 documentary about the county’s long list of accomplished basketball players. By the time it debuted, a once-modest local community of directors and performers had grown considerably, backed by the county’s film office, which opened in 2013.