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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

Penn State Go officially launched in January 2020 and COVID-19-related shutdowns began a few months later. Since 2020, the app has had 332,000 downloads and has logged around 119 million lifetime user interactions, with 85 percent of students using the app at least one time a week.

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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

More Data on Tap Over the past year, Batemans team has been digging deeper into data from the 2020 Decennial Census, with a focus on race and ethnicity. ” To learn more about how state and local governments are using technology to meet their goals, download it here: Get the Guide Photo by Enayet Raheem on Unsplash Favorite

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Announcing the winners of the inaugural Future of Government Awards: Celebrating digital transformation initiatives around the world

AWS Public Sector Blog

The open source app IO was launched in early 2020 by PagoPA , a state-owned company created to spread digital services in Italy, to overturn this paradigm by putting simple and user-centered public services into the citizens’ pockets. After registering, citizens can receive communications and complete in-app payments.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020, Meta introduced the Daylight Map Distribution , which combines OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with quality and consistency checks from Daylight mapping partners to create a no-cost, stable, and simple-to-use global map.

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4 global skills trends shaping workforce development

AWS Public Sector Blog

The highest percent change in Coursera learner enrollment growth between Q4 2020 and Q4 2021 can be seen in the regions of Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East/North Africa (MENA), and sub-Saharan Africa. For a deeper understanding of these trends, download the Global Skills Report 2022.

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Enhancing Security with CISA’s ScubaGear Baselines for M365

Microsoft Public Sector

The program was in response Solorigate in 2020, and the discovery of common cybersecurity gaps that negatively impacted organizations’ risk. The PowerShell source code and download for the tool can be found at GitHub - cisagov/ScubaGear: Automation to assess the state of your M365 tenant against CISA's baselines.

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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Over 70 percent of PHAs saw a decline in success rates between 2020 and 2022, more than half of which saw a substantial decline of at least 10 percentage points. Read the full report Download the data In 2021, success rates declined sharply to 58 percent, and then remained depressed in 2022, standing at 57 percent.

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