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How to prevent ideas from getting lost in translation

GCN

A new book aims to help experts communicate more clearly, so their ideas can have real-world impacts. Policy researchers and government administrators often seem like they’re speaking different languages.

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Virtualizing satellite communication operations with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground. This post also presents a reference architecture to virtualize the satcom ground segment after the satellite signal is digitized at both ends of communication.

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The Case for Accessible Communications Technology

GovLoop

But the measure of an effective communications platform is how accessible it is for everyone to participate. No Going Back When millions of people began working from home several years ago, seamless communications platforms such as Zoom for Government became invaluable. Governments for Zoom Video Communications.

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Making public services more accessible with AI-powered translations from Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

Star Trek has the universal translator. Without the need for telepathy or sci-fi, we use AI-powered translation technology. With smart translations, done almost in real-time, we’ve created a new, more agile way of communicating. Fairness and respect take center stage in our vision of communication.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim rescued it from obscurity and used it in his 1893 book De la division du travail social (translated as The Division of Labour in Society ). I still believe in rational communication and objective reality. This may or may not be derived from real events or legitimate interpretations of them.

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How one council used machine learning to cut translation costs by 99.6%

AWS Public Sector Blog

The success of a recent translation project that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services is a prime example of this. Watch now: How Swindon Council used machine learning to cut translation costs by 99.6% All that has changed dramatically since building Translate, a machine translation application.

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How EdTechs use AWS to connect and engage the learning community

AWS Public Sector Blog

Research shows that family and community involvement in schools is closely related to positive outcomes for students. 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.