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How Can State and Local Governments Defend Against the Top 10 Types of Malware?

State Tech Magazine

Recent research has found that attacks against governments worldwide increased by 1,885 percent in 2021, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has highlighted ongoing threats to state facilities such as water and wastewater systems. The challenge is translating this priority into practical protection.

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Accelerating and democratizing research with the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS is supporting a research project at Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) to translate Peruvian Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Peruana, or LSP in Spanish) with computer vision and natural language processing. “We As Canada’s first fully online university, they’ve created IDEA Lab , a unique virtual research initiative.

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

This includes offering financial compensation for participation, providing translation services, and holding events in more accessible locations or times. for 2021, 2022, and 2023, and now boasts national leagues, including in Australia. By 2025, governments are expecting to continue developing strategies to remove these barriers.

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Mental Health Research Awards for Investigators Early in their Career in Low and Middle-Income Countries (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline To Apply 11-15-2021

iGrantWriters

This initiative seeks to assist these researchers in launching an innovative basic, translational, clinical, or services research program that holds the potential to transform the understanding, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of mental illnesses in low resource international settings. Deadline To Apply Dec 09, 2021

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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. Do not translate. -

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State agencies deliver needed services with help from Speridian and Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

When $10B was allocated to the Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) local state agencies needed to act quickly to assist homeowners avoid mortgage delinquencies, defaults, foreclosures or loss of utilities. With hundreds of thousands of people applying for aid, the platform needed to scale.

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Streamlining with DocAI can yield cost savings and help accelerate missions

Google Public Sector

In 2021, Americans spent 10.5 If you consider a fully loaded FTE is $100,000, this all translates into $9-10 M net savings when aggregated over five years - all from 1 form. If there is one thing that the government has a lot of, it’s paper.