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The public sector cannot underestimate computing’s environmental impact

Open Access Government - Technology News

It’s easy to picture emissions from a factory or car but much less intuitive when it comes to someone developing software on their laptop. It’s a potentially huge blindspot for curtailing emissions, and the public sector needs to hold the tech industry more accountable for emissions produced by the infrastructure used to deploy software.

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Powering the generative AI era: What you missed at the AWS Public Sector Symposium Brussels

AWS Public Sector Blog

Davy Levy, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, delivers the keynote at the Brussels Public Sector Symposium on 12 March. On 12 March, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Symposium Brussels returned to the Brussels Expo in Belgium. Good governance is fundamental for responsible systems.

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Governments must prepare for quantum computing risks

Open Access Government - Technology News

What began as a lone, small quantum device on the cloud running rudimentary experiments has evolved into a breakthrough tool used across industries and organizations to explore the frontiers of challenges in healthcare and life sciences, high energy physics, materials development, optimization, and sustainability.

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Analysis: Mainframe migration can save US federal government estimated $1B by 2030

AWS Public Sector Blog

Analysis completed by the AWS Public Sector Cloud Economics (PS CE) team finds that organizations can reduce the annual operating cost of mainframe environments by up to 90 percent post-migration. AWS Cloud Economics : The first steps in beginning a mainframe migration journey is to develop a business case.

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Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Working Backwards process is gaining traction among outcome-focused public sector organizations tackling problems ranging from gun violence to cyclist and pedestrian road safety. Workshop attendees engaged with city staff in a series of CIC-led Working Backwards exercises to develop various road safety strategies.

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Helping governments and businesses pioneer sustainability initiatives: Top takeaways from the AWS Sustainability Conference

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sustainability Conference held in Dublin on February 21, 2023, gathered public sector and commercial organisations to came together to better understand how the AWS Cloud can drive sustainability initiatives. Scope, scale and speed in sustainability is shocking but it is a massive opportunity.”

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EU government employees can build cloud skills with new, no-cost AWS learning plans

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of new AWS learning plans for civil servants at this week’s AWS Public Sector Symposium in Brussels. The learning plans are designed specifically for European Union (EU) government agencies and are part of AWS’s ongoing commitment to public sector customers.