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Swindon Borough Council makes vital public information more accessible using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

A positive difference for communities We also saw an opportunity to combine the technology with our existing Translate solution , making content available in 75 languages and reaching people for whom English is a second language. Also, as a council with budget pressures, there’s significant financial gain.

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Three questions about cloud procurement for the public sector explained

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a March 2022 survey of 147 state and local government leaders by the Center for Digital Government , more than half of respondents said they plan to procure citizen-facing applications and storage and backup infrastructure in the next one to two years.

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

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Local governments in Australia are seeking innovative ways to use compensation methods to enhance community participation. By 2025, governments are expecting to continue developing strategies to remove these barriers. These programs help to boost face-to-face public participation.

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Building Civic Trust Through Civic Tech

GovLoop

It can include applications such as community platforms that connect constituents to services and resources, open data initiatives and participatory budgeting tools. Citizens who interact with their local government entities through easy-to-use technology feel more positively about their municipalities.

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U.S. defense: Fighting the fog of war with data and AI

Open Access Government - Technology News

million military personnel and 778,000 civilians, the DoD requires a budget of $850 billion for the current fiscal year. Translating data into action The Army Vantage program is not just an analytics platform but a catalyst for data-driven decision-making across the Army. To support nearly 2.1

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Budget Lessons from the States for the Feds:How to Radically Change Expectations about the Federal

Barrett & Greene

In fact, many of us who study state budgeting annually observe budget processes that lead to (largely) fiscally responsible decision-making and do not require high stakes hostage taking to get there. ​ The most obvious place to begin is that almost all states have some sort of statutory or constitutional balanced budget requirement.

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Compensating Community Participation

Social Pinpoint

Now, local governments across Australia are discussing how these compensation methods, successfully used in large-scale projects, could be applied to support projects that typically see lower participation. Resource Constraints Perceived Motivations Equity Issues Sustainability Balancing Incentives 1.