AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced 15 startup companies selected to participate in the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator. Announced in October 2023, the AWS Education Accelerator supports education technology (EdTech) startups who are innovating to enhance the teaching and learning experience and improve educational outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

According Global Market Insights , AI in the education market is anticipated to grow 45% by 2024. As investments and adoption of AI and ML continue to rise, there is tremendous potential for improved citizen experiences in the public sector. This type of digital transformation does not happen overnight, though.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Generative AI has been increasingly used to create highly personalized and convincing phishing emails, making it harder for even trained employees to distinguish between legitimate and malicious communications. Re-evaluate your on-call communication and rotation plan.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The education sector has gone through a transformative technological change in the last few years. First, the pandemic created a rise in e-learning solutions, as teachers and students adopted digital platforms for communicating, teaching and learning, and managing academic information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the release of a public-sector focused eBook on generative artificial intelligence (AI). However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Citizens are increasingly engaging with public sector entities through digital surfaces and touchpoints. Every touchpoint is an opportunity for the public sector to give their consumers an experience tailored to their preferences and needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Plus, when educators connect and communicate with each other, they can help improve the culture of education, use their data more effectively, and deliver better results for students. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Educational institutions around the world seek reliable options that allow administrators, professors, teachers, and students to maintain connectivity and productivity on- or off-campus. In 2023, more than 2,000 education customers around the world subscribed to software in AWS Marketplace. What is AWS Marketplace?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The awards champion practitioners, teams, and leaders who transform people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves. This diversity is apparent in the awardees who represent a broad array of sectors from healthcare to public service to education to agriculture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Communication with parents is a must for school districts. In this blog post, I walk through how to set up a solution that enables school districts to notify a targeted group of parents about school bus breakdowns and delays via the parent’s preferred method of communication (i.e.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The initiative brings together a coalition of Fortune 500 companies and other employers, government agencies, workforce development organizations, and education leaders to better prepare learners for entry-level tech careers. More than 30,000 students are training through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) program.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 1, 2024

After responding to the increased need for online learning during the pandemic, the market for educational and professional learning content has continued to expand. The global digital education content market is predicted to jump from today’s $60 billion market value to a $180 billion in the next decade, according to FactMR.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. There is a continuing global shortage of STEM talent and many communities in the US do not have equal access to high-quality STEM education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, public sector organizations have an opportunity to rethink what’s possible and for the upcoming year. Whether your priority is to deliver better outcomes for students, design more effective communication with constituents, or facilitate more patient-centric care—Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Amazon Web Services’ ( AWS) 12 th annual re:Invent conference offers a variety of events that educate attendees about cloud-related topics. Dave Levy , vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, is hosting the session, “ Empowering citizens through digital innovation ” on Monday, November 27, at 4:30 p.m.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

He has over two decades of experience in Unified Communications and nearly fifteen years in corporate development and strategic partnerships, with broad technical, sales, product management, and business model skills. He holds degrees in English and Communication from Mercyhurst University. To register for the webinar, click here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Seeking to create a personalized mobile app experience, Penn State partnered with Modo Labs , an educational technology company ( EdTech ) offering a no-code app-building platform powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Fortunately, Penn State seamlessly pivoted this new student resource to send COVID-19 safety communications to students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

From July 11-12, 2023, the IMAGINE: Education, State, and Local Leaders conference from Amazon Web Services (AWS) gathered public sector leaders from around the world in Sacramento, CA to reimagine the future of state and local government and education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors. The cloud-based DPS immediately improved communication in multidisciplinary oncology teams.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Whether you’re transforming how you teach; improving communications for public safety; moving medical records to the cloud; or generating donor, member, or volunteer insights through managed databases and analytics, various public sector organizations around the world are continuing to find they need to upskill, or reskill, their employees.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Public sector agencies today require digital skills to deliver the functions citizens expect, and the innovations necessary to speed up processes and address gaps and inequity. However, digital transformation can only be achieved when workers have the data literacy skills to read, interpret, communicate, and reason with this data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Breaking down the challenge to make heritage appealing to all The NCS Cloud Innovation for Communities (CIC) program team was tasked with making Singapore’s rich history and heritage more appealing across all generations through engaging experiences powered by cutting-edge technologies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Colonel Davis was one of the speakers participating in a panel at the IMAGINE 2023 conference for education, state, and local leaders from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Share data and facilitate collaboration For first responders, poor communication can have dire consequences. My driver, Mike, drove right up to me and said, ‘Paul?'”

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 22, 2024

AI is set to transform the public sector to be more inclusive and accessible, creating new ways to remove barriers for people with disabilities Bu the scale of the challenge is significant. It can help the public sector become more accessible and better cater to individuals with diverse disabilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Future of Government Awards recognize the people and projects leading public sector digital transformation around the world. His immediate priority was to create the “State in the smartphone” – so people could communicate directly with the state via their smartphones.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Through surveys, communication, and sharing tips and tricks, hello energy helps make change manageable, simple, and fun to drive more sustainable behavior. Over five weeks, the program immerses startups in cloud education with hands-on technical training in capabilities like machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC).

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 26, 2024

For example, an estimated 920 million people globally have an education that does not match their job 1 , while 60% of workers will require new training before 2027 but only some have access to adequate training opportunities 2. Speed has also improved by using Vertex AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

As student enrollment begins to stabilize at colleges and universities, higher education leaders are focused on supporting equitable access to postsecondary education. Many leaders are turning to technology to address systemic barriers to education by making services more transparent, efficient, and simple for learners and staff.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. The United Kingdom Government Digital Service (GDS) incentivizes public sector transformation with tools it creates that remove barriers to change and improve services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

State Department’s Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Ambassador Stephen Lang; the British Embassy’s Deputy Head of Mission, James Roscoe, MVO; and the Italian Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission, Alessandro Gonzalez. Dobriansky, G7 partners discussed ways to align AI governance strategies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). Fargate tasks cannot communicate with DynamoDB. Fargate tasks cannot communicate with Amazon S3.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 22, 2024

As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In addition to the risk to life and biodiversity, wildfires can destroy and disrupt property, essential infrastructure, communications, air quality, and more. Wildfires, then, contribute to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of ecosystems, and lost carbon storage in the destruction of forests.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 28, 2022

We’ve offered products that address the unique needs of the public sector; built a dedicated sales force, partner ecosystem, and services organization; and worked with partners to bring joint solutions to government and educational institutions. public sector customers. Google Public Sector experts will help U.S.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations.

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