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How EdTechs use AWS to connect and engage the learning community

AWS Public Sector Blog

Education technology (EdTech) startups around the world use cloud technology to help facilitate these community connections and make education more collaborative and engaging. Discover how four AWS EdStart Members use AWS to create more connected and engaging educational experiences for learners around the world.

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Implementing a unified search platform for educational content on Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Transcribe API, StartTranscriptionJob , can be automatically engaged through Lambda functions to initiate transcription jobs for each uploaded file. Let’s say you are indexing an internal blog page you want to make available to search. On top of that, it specifies two indexes, blogs and videos, to search from.

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Now available: New AWS program supporting nonprofit donor and member engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Organizations can use data to inform an enhanced engagement strategy, but many are challenged to unlock the full value of that data affordably and at scale. To help nonprofits use the cloud to build innovative fundraising and member engagement solutions, we are launching a new program – AWS TechAction. What is AWS TechAction?

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5 most common myths about community engagement

Citizen Lab

From costly expenses to loss of control, several misconceptions about community engagement can hinder local governments from unlocking the full potential of participatory democracy to this day. In this blog post, we’ll explore five of the most-heard myths and why they’re not true.

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Transforming student communications: How Dallas College modernized its call center with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

One of our biggest challenges was not having enough people to answer phones, says Steve Glick, Dallas Colleges associate director of IT, who is responsible for student engagement platforms. However, as enrollment swelled over the years, Dallas Colleges legacy call center struggled to keep pace. with scalable contact center solutions

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AWS selects 13 startups to innovate public safety solutions through the GovTech Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

By leveraging AWS to develop the next generation of GovTech technology, the startups aim to address justice and public safety challenges, such as increasing community engagement, deterring crime, and reducing recidivism. 911 call centers are facing unprecedented challenges, with high call volumes, legacy technology, and short staffing.

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Protect critical services with new Continuity of Government IT on AWS solution guide

AWS Public Sector Blog

CGIT helps governments mitigate these risks through a series of engagements that help governments map their continuity goals to an appropriate technology path, followed by assisted delivery of the expected outcomes through AWS Professional Services , ready-made solutions, or the help of more than 100,000 AWS Partners from more than 150 countries.