AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). In parts of the country, air pollution reached some of the world’s deadliest levels in recent years, with 1.6

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) is a federal government agency responsible for extending civilian foreign aid and development assistance, such as for countries that need disaster response and recovery resources, are trying to escape poverty, and are engaging in democratic reforms.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

But disaster response is a coordinated effort, which means it requires buy-in from everyone who might be affected. We attend public events and meetings as a way of both educating folks on the ins and outs of disaster response and making ourselves available to answer pressing questions.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The concept of digital twins, which has been around for years, is gaining traction as agencies gather better data and vendors develop better tools. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving the development of more powerful digital twins. This article appears in our guide “ How to Change Things Up (and Make It Stick).”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Working together, SINAPROC, Grupo TX, and AWS have developed a proof-of-concept for an early warning system for flooding. With this project, we are able to demonstrate the capabilities of the cloud to develop and implement an early warning system for floods. Learn more about AWS Partner Grupo TX and the AWS Disaster Response Team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

First Street has partnered with global engineering experts at Arup , a global collective of designers, engineering and sustainability consultants, advisors, and experts dedicated to sustainable development and more, to estimate the likelihood that any building will ignite and be lost if exposed to flame or embers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Developers of all skill levels can get hands-on with ML through a cloud-based three-dimensional (3D) racing simulator, and then race for prizes, glory, and a chance to advance to the AWS DeepRacer Grand Finale to compete for the coveted AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CGIT is developed in collaboration with partners like the Government of the Republic of Estonia to provide actionable and practical advice, rooted in years of experience in digital government transformation. This is evident in the government continuity capabilities AWS is providing for Ukraine during the war with Russia.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 17, 2024

The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance enables a wide array of use cases for organizations with stringent security requirements, including: Disaster response : In the aftermath of a disaster, timely and accurate information is crucial for coordinating relief efforts and saving lives.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Also, due to the large investment of funding and labor required for traditional modeling and mapping methods, analysis may not account for current infrastructure and impervious development. Parks & Recreation may want to develop more parkland and multi-use trails, so they may support measures that limit development of floodplain areas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Today, scientists and visionaries around the world are working hard to develop the next-generation technologies that will shape our future. Launching new ML services to improve developer productivity and build synthetic data. The progress we have made is impressive. However, there is still so much to discover.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We created the summit to identify practical applications of AI to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and scale those solutions for global impact. Part of what underpins this practical approach is our role in the international standard-setting system, which provides guidelines for the development and application of technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, not every contribution is compatible with the specific use cases of some companies, which is why the maps team at Meta developed Daylight Map.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

Open software accelerates developer adoption by leveraging existing expertise and does not require customers to learn new, proprietary systems. Customers can enjoy a consistent developer experience and access to a robust set of managed services, while being able to tailor deployment and operations to address their specific requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 25, 2025

Industries such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and financial services rely on computational power to drive decision-making, underpin lifesaving research, optimise processes and develop new products. Without the ability to process, analyse and store this data efficiently, there is no doubt that industries could stagnate.

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GovLoop

MARCH 12, 2024

And geospatial analytics, Barlow said, will improve disaster response planning, weather forecasting and municipal development, among other possibilities. ML models detect fraud by comparing data — for instance, your tax return against tax filings that millions of similar individuals submitted.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

4 Acquire, rehabilitate, and sell or reuse properties; develop plans; and other CDBG-eligible activities. Natural Disaster Response and Mitigation: No expenditure limits. The expanded eligible uses allow the funds to be deployed to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties in a variety of new ways.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 7, 2023

Participants identified various barriers—from financial constraints and a lack of personnel to the vast size of the regions they are responsible for—that make it challenging to develop relationships with local stakeholders and communities. See the big picture and have empathy.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them. Let us replace major incident by 'major emergency' and 'disaster'. Where emergency and disaster responses are overcentralised, they fail. In the UK emergency planners do not manage the events they plan for.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

AWS supports technical training for investigators and students to increase awareness of how the cloud can accelerate their research related to prediction, preparedness, and response, in addition to supporting first responders with workshops on geo-mapping. Looking ahead: Holistic disaster response for the public sector.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Hurricane Helene caused historic flooding in Western North Carolina, destroying or damaging approximately 126,000 residential properties. Many of those properties were occupied by tenants who now find themselves in unfit or uninhabitable properties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ultimately, Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office chose TailorBuilt Solutions, LLC (TBS), an AWS Partner that specializes in custom software programming for public safety agencies, to create a brand-new CAD system that would be fully developed as a cloud-native application. In Varnado’s estimation, custom development was key.

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GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

The index was developed in collaboration with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and it ranks communities based on pollution levels, environmental hazards, poverty, quality of education, walkability and other factors. TxCOPE, an open data app developed at the University of Texas in Austin, is one of them.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. Thriving in unpredictable environments. 363) Social capital matters.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 7, 2023

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development deployed Google Cloud AI and ML for predictive analytics. For instance, New York State implemented Contact Center AI (CCAI) to modernize its call center operations and provide New Yorkers with real-time answers to their most common and pressing questions about vaccine safety and efficacy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Public Digital announced the recipients of the Future of Government Awards 2025. million active loans through an open source system that enables direct government-to-citizen lending without commercial bank intermediaries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Key elements include: Reference architecture Defining a clear reference architecture for the cloud environment Including the account structure, networking, storage, and other foundational elements Naming and tagging standards Establishing consistent naming conventions and tagging taxonomies Ensuring the cloud environment is well-organized and easily (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning from Seattle Universitys cloud migration journey As Seattle University progressed further into its migration journey, it used and developed best practices that can serve as a roadmap for other higher education institutions embarking on a similar effort.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

As a term, apparently it was coined in development economics, making the point that as countries grow in population, there is less money invested in per capita (" Population Pressures, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles ," Economic Development and Cultural Change , 1988).

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