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Strengthening public safety collaboration with AWS Wickr and the Android Team Awareness Kit

AWS Public Sector Blog

First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts. Combined capabilities ATAK is a geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness application that provides a real time common operating picture of people and assets within a map-based view.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

The platform can improve public safety by automating alerts, encouraging citizen reporting and enhancing operational efficiencies—ultimately saving law enforcement agencies time and resources. eHawk Lees Summit, MO eHawk is a criminal justice technology company driven by its innovative RePath platform.

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How AWS is supporting nonprofits, governments, and communities impacted by Hurricane Ian

AWS Public Sector Blog

At the request of standby organizations Help.NGO and Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), the AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response team assisted with response operations across a variety of functions in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

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Bringing cloud and AI capabilities to the tactical edge: Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is generally available

Google Public Sector

In harsh, disconnected, or mobile environments like disaster zones, remote research stations, or long-haul trucking operations, organizations face significant challenges in providing computing capabilities. Weighing approximately 100lbs, it's human-portable, making it easy to transport and deploy in various locations.

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Creating real-time flood alerts with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Disaster Preparedness and Response Team and AWS Partner Grupo TX saw an opportunity to leverage the cloud to better understand and prepare for flooding and ultimately save lives. Learn more about AWS Partner Grupo TX and the AWS Disaster Response Team.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

It is highly relevant for organizations such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), which depends on timely and updated OSM data to support their global humanitarian and disaster response mapping charters, as well as organizations that provide value-added services and maps built from OSM data. The WKT string is: POLYGON((-67.51

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT). RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.