AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? Patch Manager can apply patches for both operating systems and applications. What is StateRAMP?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

The impact of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic was so significant that the UK government established a National Data Strategy in 2020, the aim of which was to use data to innovate, experiment, and drive a new era of growth. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Public Schools (GCPS), the business value of implementing cyber resiliency and disaster recovery (CR and DR) initiatives—which the school embarked on with AWS in 2023—is multifaceted. “CR After extensive research, I saw that Amazon’s infrastructure was miles ahead,” said KRESA’s IT infrastructure manager Michael Coats.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I founded SibsForever in August 2020. Finally, Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ) supports a managed configuration for historical and user-entered data. Additionally, all sensitive data, such as database passwords and credentials for third-party services, gets encrypted within AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. That’s one of the highest rates in the US. It was awesome.”

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

In late 2020, work began with industry partners on the planning, business process reengineering and strategy design to modernize Wisconsin’s child support system. Once the new automated system is in place, employees and case managers will no longer need to rely on manual workarounds.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The program was in response Solorigate in 2020, and the discovery of common cybersecurity gaps that negatively impacted organizations’ risk. This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments. By implementing robust security measures, you can: Enhance data protection and privacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2022

By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region’s population – an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. Using AWS to deliver on our mission. Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Italian citizens typically need to navigate through dozens of platforms in order to access public services or manage their obligations to the State. View open source code for digital services, standards, practices, and more implemented by governments around the world. Winner: IO, the app for Italian public services – PagoPA S.p.A.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

The SEDT has processed more than 2,600 requests since Urban launched it in September 2020. In addition to the EDP and SEDT, Urban uses Lambda to implement a number of capabilities, including automating data quality checks , running microsimulation models , and expanding access to confidential data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Follow these steps to implement cloud-skilling programs to jumpstart digital transformation.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Jon Fielding, Managing Director EMEA Apricorn, discusses the need to focus on information and data protection whilst tackling the critical ‘human factor’ in breach prevention, backup and recovery strategies. Aberdeenshire Council had 243 data breaches between 2020 and 2022.

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Learners can prepare for certifications like Cloud Digital Leader , which assesses general cloud knowledge, and Associate Cloud Engineer , which assesses the ability to implement cloud solutions based on technical requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

At the heart of the ZWZH program is an AI-based 3D food scanner, built by Nuvilab, which analyzes food consumption and provides insights to both cafeteria managers and diners. Waste is generated because kitchen managers cannot accurately identify customers’ preferences for each menu,” says Logan Kim, CEO of Nuvilab.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon using a single API. For this solution, we cover the technical implementation using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5

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Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. These e-learning platforms, also known as Learning Management Systems (or LMS’s), already played an important role in educational institutions. This implementation of Moodle is 100% cloud-native. Cloud-native. Highly scalable. Open-source.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A report by Ipsos for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport last May found that many UK businesses needed more staff with the technical, incident response, and governance skills needed to manage their cyber security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Mike Taylor, Senior Accessibility Analyst, Comms and Training Manager at Digital Accessibility Centre , discusses online access and its benefits since COVID. Differences which remain need not be so extreme if implementing more than one way of interacting with an organisation or waiting for users to need online material before providing it.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

We recently launched Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock (Preview) , which helps customers implement responsible AI policies when building generative AI applications. Since 2020, we are the largest corporate purchaser of renewable in Europe and worldwide. billion liters returned to communities annually.

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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. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Based on these experiences, we have created a four-step framework for successfully building and managing a data literacy program: plan, curate, engage, and measure. Illustration depicting the various actions outlined in Coursera’s four-step framework for managing a data literacy program. Who are the learners?

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, Google Cloud launched the Research Innovators program to encourage scientific breakthroughs with the latest cloud technologies. With access to Google experts and support from peers, research innovators are able to fast-track their projects for real-world impact. Marieke van Buchem , Ph.D.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

Sapphire provides managed services run by cyber security experts, enabling organisations to focus on their services while ensuring safety. Compliance standards are implemented within the public sector to achieve minimum cyber security standards. This is why the UK is currently considered a lucrative target for cyber criminals.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web.

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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). Hartnell has also leveraged the breadth of AWS services and has begun exploring capabilities of other AWS managed services to further enable their students’ success by improving accessibility and agility.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It incorporates a mature end-to-end workflow for document processing and management to speed implementation and reduce costs for federal, state, and local governments and academic institutions. Introducing document intake accelerator Document intake accelerator is an open-sourced, pre-packaged and customizable solution.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 7, 2024

Since 2020 John Carr and Samantha Montano have been studying disaster movies and how they influence the public’s perceptions of disasters. John's research interests include citizen engagement in disasters, CERT teams, rural emergency management, and disaster movies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Another agency manages grass in or near parks. We learned lessons and tested them as we transformed services, implementing the feedback from users as we went along. In terms of usage, there are more than 350,000 users on the app as of 2021, and more than 250,000 cases were reported in 2020. Seems trivial, right?

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The program was in response Solorigate in 2020, and the discovery of common cybersecurity gaps that negatively impacted organizations’ risk. This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments. By implementing robust security measures, you can: Enhance data protection and privacy.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JUNE 22, 2021

This podcast looks specifically at adaption as a strategy that can be implemented now and can provide immediate results to reduce climate related damages. Their mobile device management solutions help safeguard sensitive data and their network is ideal for unlocking game-changing loT technology.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The National Weather Service (NWS) and their Forecast Offices around the nation are key partners for the broader emergency management community. Eric Holdeman is a professional emergency manager who is passionate about providing information that can help families, businesses & governments become better prepared for disasters of all types.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Failure is an antonym to success for most of us, but Andi Mirviss, North America Program Manager at the Centre for Public Impact, disagrees. Recruit Managers as Learners. Another important part of it is you need to have managers that want to be a part of it, too.”. Do managers or leaders listen and implement the ideas?

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Whether you’re planning to use more AI or just want to improve analytics and tighten cybersecurity, good data management must be the foundation for your efforts. Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. Assign specific data management-related roles.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, building community trust, advocating for policies that facilitate construction, and implementing bold, forward-thinking strategies despite short-term political considerations remains essential. "We The increasing political resistance has left decision-makers at an impasse regarding the addition of new supply, panelists said.

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Government Technology Insider

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

From the immediate switch to remote work in March 2020 to the addition of a wide array of innovative products and services to address cybersecurity and evolving needs, federal agencies are streamlining dated processes, breaking down silos , and increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the Government Cyber Security Strategy: 2022 to 2030 policy paper , four in 10 incidents managed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the year ending August 2021 were aimed at the public sector. The statistics speak for themselves. This isn’t coincidence.

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