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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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4 global skills trends shaping workforce development

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Global Skills Report draws data from 100 million learners in more than 100 countries who have used Coursera , a global online learning platform, to develop a new skill during the past year—with the goal of providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and campuses looking to understand the skill needs of their organization.

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Republic of Armenia’s Ministry of High-Tech Industry and AWS sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

AWS Public Sector Blog

To increase national competitiveness, the MoU will drive a wide range of educational initiatives to develop Armenia’s workforce and prepare Armenian workers for the jobs of the future. This is a part of our government 2021-2026 program and it can be achieved through investment in digital trust and appropriate norms and regulations.

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Street Smarts: In Arlington County, Va., Fiber Framework Creates Opportunities

State Tech Magazine

In 2021, the Arlington County Board approved a proposal for developer JBG SMITH — which owns 6.8…

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AWS re/Start MENA celebrates successful first year

AWS Public Sector Blog

according to the World Bank —a recent global survey by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Gallup revealed “myriad positive outcomes” for those who develop their digital skills, including higher salaries, job satisfaction, and increased revenue and innovation for the organizations that employ digitally skilled people.

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State and Local Governments Must Develop a Multilayered Approach to Ransomware

State Tech Magazine

And in a 2021 survey, two-thirds of CISOs said they felt their organizations were at risk of falling victim to a successful… Not because ransomware has peaked — far from it — but because people now seem to realize hackers have found an attack type so lucrative that they’re going to keep using it again and again.

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Why Fugaku, Japan’s fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Fugaku, a name familiar to many in Japan, is the supercomputer developed by Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in collaboration with Fujitsu , as a result of the Japanese government’s national policy. In April 2018, he was appointed as the director of R-CCS, where he oversaw the supercomputer’s development.