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Using AI for intelligent document processing to support benefit applications and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

In these applications, documents—in various sources, formats, and layouts—are the primary tools for application assessment. Processing these documents manually or by using legacy optical character recognition (OCR) systems is time-consuming and prone to error. Tens of millions of residents apply for these benefits every year.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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Emerging Government Use Cases Spotlight Advantages of 5G and Wi-Fi 6

State Tech Magazine

These outdoor stations often relied on 5G wireless networks to handle the high concentration of smartphones, wireless scanners, tablets, notebooks and sensors involved in administering the tests and documenting patients’ information.

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To Prevent Illegal Dumping, You Have to Know the Scale of the Problem

Center for Community Progress

An illegal dumping inventory is a point-in-time survey to document the location and severity of illegal dumping across Flints vacant lots. If surveyors document dozens of illegal dumping sites and nothing happens, resident frustration can increase. it fits in a kitchen trash bag, it fills a pickup truck) Type of waste (e.g.,

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New Google Workspace cost-saving offer available for U.S. federal government

Google Public Sector

Workspace with Gemini dramatically accelerates the creation and sharing of emails, documents, and even transcribed meeting notes. Additionally, with Gemini in Workspace apps and the Gemini app having achieved FedRAMP High authorization , federal agencies can get more done with AI without additional costs for AI add-ons or subscriptions.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Success rates have fallen precipitously in recent years, and search times have increased Up until 2021, success rates were relatively constant at just above 65 percent, though significantly lower than the 69 percent national voucher success rate that Abt Associates estimated in 2000.

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Streamlining with DocAI can yield cost savings and help accelerate missions

Google Public Sector

In 2021, Americans spent 10.5 Government workers and constituents alike are spending exorbitant amounts of time completing and processing documents by hand, which can drive exhaustion and frustration. With tools such as Document AI, the processing time can be reduced by 90% to one minute per form and the rework can be cut in half.