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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

His immediate priority was to create the “State in the smartphone” – so people could communicate directly with the state via their smartphones. After registering, citizens can receive communications and complete in-app payments. EU Digital COVID Certificate, with more than 245 million certificates obtained through IO since June 2021.

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Migrating and modernizing state WIC applications with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided the USDA with $390 million available in non-competitive grants to offer WIC agencies looking to innovate their technology. The State of Arizona’s WIC migration journey with AWS AZDHS leadership recognized the need to begin their WIC modernization journey by migrating to AWS.

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Habit #1: Automate (Thoughtfully)

GovLoop

Citizen and Immigration Services once used RPA to process two million backlogged records in just one hour, according to the 2021 State of Federal RPA Report. If you’re in a leadership position, you can improve the odds of success with automation in two ways: Be transparent. For example, U.S.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 Shri Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary at the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the government of Telangana, India, took the stage to share his organization’s journey to the cloud. When it first launched, 1.9 million people accessed the system.

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Continuing the pace of government innovation with the cloud in Asia Pacific and Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to a Gartner survey in 2021, digitally advanced government organizations realize more benefits of modernization, including higher efficiency, cost reductions, greater workforce productivity, compliance, and transparency. Continue the momentum by scaling digitization.

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How one council used machine learning to cut translation costs by 99.6%

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, we translated about 400 documents, each one costing an average of almost £160. We’re exploring how Translate can support the ways the council deals with incoming communications in any language by offering almost instant translations (such as phone calls, video calls, in person, email, social media, chat bot interactions, and more).

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Alaska Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Since that time, he has served in numerous roles including emergency communications technician, microcomputer/network specialist, information management, alert, and warning systems coordinator, information technology manager, Chief of Preparedness, Chief of Operations, and Director.