AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

Procurement specialists must rapidly develop expertise across multiple commodity areas while ensuring work scopes are clear, comprehensive, and fair to all prospective suppliers. Now in pilot, Scope Builder is demonstrating how it will save Cal Poly procurement team members time developing work scopes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These one-on-one consulting engagements have covered topics such as developing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and maximizing profitability with AWS in public sector. These solutions included summarization, information extraction, sentiment analysis, topic classification, and data visualization.

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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 20 AWS Partners and customers have committed to the Egypt alliance.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

Economic Development Administration (EDA) with strong bipartisan support. 3891) , the first in 20 years, is included as part of the Water Resources Development Act (S. Planning activities related devising, implementing, and updating a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) are eligible for funding.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

When combined with Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), a developer toolkit that implements serverless best practices, agencies can significantly increase their development velocity while maintaining high security and compliance standards. Amazon Bedrock Agent Action Group : Manages the actions performed by the agent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To address this problem, AWS, talent developers, and educational institutions have developed a map of skills necessary for the primary entry-level technology job roles. Since its launch in 2023, the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance has already engaged 1050 educational institutions and more than 250,000 learners worldwide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Times Higher Education ’s student experience tracker survey reinforces these observations, finding that 86 percent of respondents believe that universities have an important role to play in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

They continuously monitor workloads and engagement in anticipation of critical incidents. Develop comprehensive incident response plans and procedures to handle potential outages or incidents during the holidays. Services such as AWS incident detection and response (IDR) are available for AWS enterprise support customers.

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OpenGov

JULY 30, 2024

Community Development In The Digital Age [2024 Guide] In an OpenGov survey of local government community development professionals, 78% put economic development at the top of their priority list. This […] The post Community Development Tools for the Digital Age appeared first on OpenGov.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

By leveraging AWS to develop the next generation of EdTech solutions, these startups aim to address education challenges such as student engagement, financial literacy, student health and well-being, upskilling, and operational inefficiencies. The 10-week Accelerator program kicks off this week at Amazon’s Headquarters in Seattle.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The tech industry in the state of Texas is booming, with a growing demand for skilled workers in cloud, information technology (IT), software development, and data analytics roles. AWS has a long history of collaborating with organizations in Texas to advance workforce development and skills attainment initiatives.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

And I have a favor to ask : NoveList is doing a market survey on how libraries handle professional development training. Plus kudos go to a library with a staff member who is appearing on a popular Netflix show! Would you be willing to take the survey ? It should take five minutes or less. Thank you!!

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Park Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reaches children from ages 0 to 8, engaging them and their families in hands-on outdoor learning experiences. Some of the notable things Sean shares: Volunteer-Powered Prescott’s unique reliance on volunteers and AmeriCorps members shows how community engagement can drive impactful programs. And it is all for free!

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

In response, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped Educause develop a Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment grounded in responsible use. Educause is a nonprofit membership association committed to advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Through research, teaching, and community engagement, educators are uniquely positioned to shape the next generation of leaders and innovators who will be looking to tackle these sustainability challenges. At Arizona State University, sustainability is not just a goalit is a cornerstone of our charter.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Levelling the playing field Many governments around the world are aware of this opportunity and are making better use of data as a fundamental component of their development strategies. Digital health tools and technologies can be developed, trialled, scaled up and disseminated like never before. International License.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The series includes stories from AWS customers that are using generative AI to create more personalised and engaging learning experiences. The core part of McGraw Hill’s product development approach focuses closely on the provision of solutions that will benefit both students and educators across the entire learning ecosystem.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

Banks, PSHRA-SCP, EdD, MBA, Organization Design & Development Manager, US Office of Personnel Management and Owner-operator of Banks & Banks Consulting Company, spoke on how to ensure your 2025 goals are not only set, but met. Below are a few key takeaways from that session , as well as the full recording with even more tips.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

AWS best practice is to deploy workloads into separate accounts, one account per software development lifecycle (SDLC) environment. Landing Zone Accelerator is an open source project using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and integrates with more than 35 AWS services. A multi-account strategy is a core AWS best practice.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This year’s winners of the Go Further, Faster award include: Crisis Text Line is developing applications based on large language models (LLMs), to enhance highly-nuanced crisis conversations at a level of depth and speed not attainable in the past, ultimately decreasing time to intervention for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

At the core of the Tech Alliance lies a collaborative effort to validate and then communicate the technical and professional skills learners need to develop for entry-level jobs in cloud engineering, data analytics, and software development.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

They may acquire land outright or work with owners to protect the natural resources of the land and prevent future development. Engaging residents in the planning process for conservation projects is the only path to achieve those results. Traditional land conservancies work to permanently conserve natural landscapes and working lands.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To help develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for the project, Alig reached out to Peter Fader, the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at Wharton. Alig credits AWS for helping speed the POC’s development, saying, “The AWS team was instrumental in training and testing the LLMs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

They are actively developing multi-modal generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock to create new product use cases and simplify the process of gaining insights from large mobility data sets through natural language query, pattern recognition, and prediction. It truly made Innovation Week better.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 3, 2025

(Photo: Community Progress) Neighborhood-Led Vacant Lot Maintenance Programs like the Genesee County Land Bank Authoritys (GCLBA) Clean & Green initiative show how resident engagement can combat illegal dumping. Develop survey questions. Engage local groups to collect data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In fact, a staggering 87 percent of public schools reported that the pandemic had negatively impacted their students’ social-emotional development during the 2021–2022 school year. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to engage students and empower teachers The Happy Sad app serves a dual purpose.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2024

In this engaging keynote session, we’ll explore how embracing new opportunities, roles or responsibilities can truly heighten your professional purpose. Finding Purpose and Meaning: How Different Roles Can Guide Your Career Career growth is rarely linear. Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With the development of 5G and an ever-growing number of cloud-connected devices, data is becoming available at an unprecedented rate. With 30 years of experience in law enforcement, Janeé Harteau, CEO of Vitals Aware , is an expert on the importance of information when law enforcement engages with the public.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CGIT helps governments mitigate these risks through a series of engagements that help governments map their continuity goals to an appropriate technology path, followed by assisted delivery of the expected outcomes through AWS Professional Services , ready-made solutions, or the help of more than 100,000 AWS Partners from more than 150 countries.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Through a CDC-funded grant, Van Nostrand created the Emergency Law Inventory (ELI) , a tool for volunteers engaged in disaster response to navigate responder laws across the United States. Department of Health and Human Services) and two awards from the University of Pittsburgh's Innovation Institute for the development of ELI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Creating a cultural shift in the credit union industry Eager to preserve the high degree of trust that the community has for Columbia CU, we had to address key stakeholder concerns when choosing a cloud provider and developing a migration strategy. The result? Our team was excited to return to the office and innovate on behalf of our members.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When ranking the most significant developments of the digital age, the evolution of data storage does not garner many glamour points. Yet few innovations have had such a profound impact on the ability to develop new technologies and perform tasks previously unimaginable.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Founded in 1836, Emory has nine academic divisions and is known for its scholarly engagement across the humanities, social and natural sciences, medical disciplines, and high scientific performance and citation impact. These insights help inform the continued engagement of AWS services for the research community.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Harmony Health , based in Pleasanton, California, provides an engagement platform to strengthen and optimize the intersections between sponsors and community-based organizations. Through this micro-engagement platform, they bring health equity to vulnerable, hard to reach, and diverse communities.

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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. It delivered the following three benefits to users.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

AWS wants to help startups develop solutions that address the needs of government agencies, with the first cohort focused on justice and public safety organizations including courts, corrections, emergency services, and law enforcement. Applications open today and close Monday, July 10, 2023.

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