Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Without careful consideration of ethical implications, the development of AI could worsen existing inequalities, undermine privacy rights, and even threaten democratic institutions. At the heart of these discussions is the notion of ethical AI development. The challenges are considerable, but the potential rewards are even greater.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) , Amazon Web Services (AWS) invited Dr. Ed Kearns, the Chief Data Officer of First Street Foundation, to share how AWS technologies and open data are supporting their mission to provide accurate and up-to-date information on climate related risks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Their goal is to help decision-makers identify the potential impact and magnitude of climate-related risks and develop possible mitigation strategies. We launched the Sustainable Africa Initiative , which helps African nations identify and measure the physical and transition risks associated with climate change.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

It takes complex business rules into account. Cloud-based, event-driven architecture saves time To initiate a cloud-based, event-driven architecture, MAG worked with Ryanair to develop a cloud platform that drives information updates out from core airport systems. It’s about making MAG airports as intelligent as possible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From addressing disparities in access to quality healthcare, to fostering sustainability, our customers and partners are using technology to address some of the world’s biggest issues. In agriculture, cloud-enabled MSMEs are using cloud technology to develop data-driven and more efficient agricultural practices to help address food shortages.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Best practices from research IT leaders Achieving an effective and sustainable hybrid cloud model doesnt happen overnight. AWS Control Tower streamlines multi-account setups to onboard multiple researchers to a cloud platform quicklyin compliance with necessary regulations for every account in the environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Like most financial institutions, Columbia CU offers standard financial services, such as checking and savings accounts, loans, investments, and financial planning. To delight our members and sustain our growth, we knew we needed to modernize to distinguish Columbia CU as a premier service provider within the industry. The result?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digital technologies have the potential to make mobility systems more sustainable, intelligent, and inclusive. Islands, like other communities, are working to create effective and sustainable transport linkages. Read more about creating a smart and sustainable island strategy in this IDC InfoBrief. billion and € 316.4

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. It highlights the importance of trust-building in community development. This is a recent development for future transport projects in the State.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

In a city where streets account for 80 percent of public space, their domination by traffic makes it harder for people to walk, cycle, or take the bus. With this data, we challenged tech app startups to develop new ways to make our roads safer and smarter during roadworks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

AWS Solution Spark , launched earlier this year, helps public sector partners develop and accelerate open source solutions across state and local government, federal government, healthcare, and education. Sustainable Cities Accelerator for Infrastructure cohort startups selected. Building these systems requires energy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Also, scope out the Sustainability Showcase at the Caesars Forum to learn how technology is helping address challenges such as decarbonization of operations, energy and water conservation, and more. Make sure you talk to your AWS account representative to see what to join so you don’t miss the fun. See the SeloVerde 2.1

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the world of modern application development, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies are essential for ensuring rapid and reliable delivery of software. Note: This solution was developed and implemented by Spatial Front, Inc. Emptying the Amazon S3 buckets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The teams develop innovative approaches, applications, and data products combining official statistics and big data. To make the hackathon accessible to a large number of statisticians with different knowledge of cloud services and applications, they decided to put in place two types of development environments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The framework consists of questions, design principles, and best practices across the six pillars: Operational Excellence , Security , Reliability , Performance Efficiency , Cost Optimization , and Sustainability. Find the Government Lens on the AWS Well-Architected website or contact your AWS account team for more information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government’s 10 legacy systems most in need of modernization cost about $337 million a year to operate and maintain. AWS Cloud Economics : The first steps in beginning a mainframe migration journey is to develop a business case. How can you get started?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We created the summit to identify practical applications of AI to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and scale those solutions for global impact. Part of what underpins this practical approach is our role in the international standard-setting system, which provides guidelines for the development and application of technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This includes creating new channels and functions; developing and testing with DevOps; integrating data analytics; and adopting backup and archival mechanisms. Support sustainability goals AWS is on path to power 100% of its operation by renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of its original target of 2030.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The outdated perception of cloud being expensive stems from a narrow focus on migration costs , ignoring long-term value such as increased productivity, resilience, agility, and sustainability. Prioritizing in-house skill development and a culture of continuous learning is crucial. It can be up to 3.8

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These positions are associated with operations and activities supporting the new Region as well as skilled technical and information and communications technology (ICT) positions in the fields of telecommunications, software development, maintenance, electricity generation, and data center operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Islands can be testbeds for sustainable innovation that can help address these needs. For example, in the Balearic Islands tourism accounts for more than 44.2% While agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater globally, withdrawals compared to 20% for industry and 10% for municipal and domestic use.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

These true costs include the full spectrum of costing considerations that make up a decision, from readily-determinable accounting costs to less-recognizable intangible costs. At Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), estimating the accounting costs of resilient workloads is made simpler with the publicly-available AWS Pricing Calculator.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For a deep dive into this use case, also watch the re:Invent 2023 session on Building next-generation sustainability workloads with open data (SUS304). This publicly available data (via the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative , or ASDI) exists as parquet files and is stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity. Figure 2 shows the AWS Cloud Value Framework: cost, productivity, resilience, agility, sustainability. Additionally, change management is essential as teams shift left towards iterative development and automated deployments.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Recommendations for city governments In the face of looming fiscal challenges, city governments must adopt strategic measures to ensure financial stability and sustainability. Regularly updating financial models and engaging in long-term fiscal strategy development can provide a clearer roadmap for sustainability.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Nevertheless, cities also account for a staggering. With over half of the world’s population living in cities, urban spaces not only house us but offer opportunities for collective work and learning while serving as sources of creativity, inspiration and hope.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, I developed the new purpose-trained model using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to better assist in creating a more wildfire smoke-focused object detection model. The model identified more prominent landscape features such as “mountain” or “nature” in the training images with higher confidence.

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A Library Writer's Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As an inevitable reality of heritage preservation--saving everything is an impossibility--a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is an important counterpart to these organizations’ work towards preservation, permanence and sustainability. What is heritage and cultural property, and to whom do they belong?

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To support the development of these skills, Google Cloud, Wake Technical Community College, and Deutsche Bank are forging an innovative partnership to help build the talent pipeline in North Carolina and to connect students with high-paying and durable local job opportunities.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

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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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Its allowing agencies to be more intentional, to create sustainable, forward-looking technology that truly supports mission-critical goals, and it supports bold, creative solutions to pursue big ideas and innovations rather than just incremental changes. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Financial planning needs to be understood as a positive feature of digital transformation, even if it means changing how financial plans are developed and managed. Sustainability, agility, and security certainly matter to them. In this blog post, I discuss strategies to consider when deciding to migrate to the cloud.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The goal: to bring accountability and consistency to the performance management process, boosting morale and improving retention over the long term. The new system automates routine tasks and customizable workflows, providing HR professionals with more time to focus on strategic initiatives and employee development.

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