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Schneider electric addresses sustainability challenges for government use of AI

Open Access Government - Technology News

The potential for AI to deliver a new generation of citizen-centric public services and efficient governance is too great to ignore, but how can it be done while decarbonising and ensuring sustainability goals? Currently, data centres are thought to account for around 1% of global electricity consumption.

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Smart city transformation made simple with the globally available AWS Smart City Competency Program

AWS Public Sector Blog

As technologists, we need to consider how we can help build efficient, innovative, inclusive, and sustainable cities for the future. However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success. times to 6 billion.

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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

It’s an initiative that echoes the necessity for our streets to be cycle friendly , forming part of the wider aim of creating smarter, safer and more sustainable towns and cities, says Mark Nicholson, Chief Executive Officer, VivaCity. With this, they can effectively plan, implement and monitor current and future schemes.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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NHS England scales review of critical services using AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Key components include central and workload accounts, AWS Step Functions, Lambda functions, EventBridge, Amazon SNS Topics, and CloudTrail.

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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Projects use AWS CodeBuild and other services within AWS Developer Tools to implement a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and automatically build and deploy changes when updates are merged into development, staging, or main branches.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

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.