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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Enabled by cloud technology, digitized government agencies became better equipped to offer citizen and healthcare services, which helped improve and even save lives. Governments across APJ are taking bold steps to accelerate and simplify the process for public sector agencies to migrate to the cloud and leverage its benefits.

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How the Think Big for Small Business program helps small businesses win big contracts

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business partner program. Since March 2021, more than 500 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program, and have launched more than 1,200 opportunities with public sector customers.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the United States, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received approximately 781,000 naturalization applications in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and completed nearly 1,076,000 applications—a 20 percent increase from FY 2021 and the highest in nearly 15 years. These challenges aren’t unique to naturalization.

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Accelerating digital transformation to revitalize local economy and improve lives in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) 2022 Digital Competitiveness Index, Japan ranked 29th out of 63 countries, down one place from last year’s ranking. In September 2021, the Japanese government established the Digital Agency to promote and lead in accelerating digital transformation in Japan.

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DHS Brings New Discipline to Cyber Planning

GovLoop

In 2021, DHS, like many agencies, was putting together a funding request to boost its cybersecurity work after the SolarWinds cyberattack. As a standard practice across government, agencies create a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) to identify and track tasks needed to address an audit concern.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

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MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab (QCAL) boosts scientific and industry focus for its second cohort

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS Partners Mphasis and Fractal–two companies at the forefront of developing quantum computing capabilities–will extend their support to MeitY and AWS to evaluate research proposals and mentor the research applicants in the second cohort. The MeitY QCAL will accept applications for the second cohort later this month.