AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

In 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon , part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI: Jeff, tell us about your background and project.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 30, 2023

Why is sustainable procurement so important? One of the biggest challenges companies face is designing and implementing sustainable procurement policies and overcoming a lack of crucial visibility across their supply chains. What’s holding back more sustainable procurement?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, US government customers face numerous challenges in modernizing the design, building, testing, and sustainment of the next generation of major weapon systems. An IT engineer works alongside a cybersecurity analyst to develop the appropriate solution for this control.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sustainability and Environmental Resilience in Parks — Episode 163 On today’s episode of Open Space Radio, I’m excited to share our collab episode with GovLove Podcast, which we recorded live back in October at the 2024 NRPA Annual Conference. This was our first live episode recording — with an audience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A sustainable solution We built on top of existing open source tools such as OpenMRS (for clinical records), OpenELIS (for lab management), odoo (pharmacy and billing) and dcm4Chee (for Radiology). To support the growing community and its needs, Thoughtworks formed the Bahmni Coalition of open source developers and implementation partners.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: SECOM/Agência Pará) Introduction Public sector organizations across the globe are seeking to develop solutions to evaluate, monitor, or predict land use and land cover change to identify deforestation trends, future wildfire-risk areas, and potential carbon credit projects. billion people. Launching SeloVerde 2.1 SeloVerde 2.1

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The City Fix

APRIL 13, 2022

I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Understanding the multidisciplinary dream team’s needs Sunswift Racing is a team of innovators based in Sydney, Australia that set out to redefine the future of sustainable transportation by developing solar vehicle technologies. This improvement in build speed greatly enhanced the overall development speed for the team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These developments enable a data-driven approach in individual care, public health, and health-related research. One such example is the development of cloud-enabled electronic health records (EHRs). They also need to be interconnected, so that health data always follows the patient as they navigate the health system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Powering India’s digital transformation and economy Access to cloud computing lowers the cost of starting new businesses, encourages innovation, spurs development of new technologies, and enhances e-governance services. Examples include initiatives such as the development of Co-WIN , which has supported more than 2.20

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 17, 2025

Companies that develop and implement effective management strategies for natural capital can secure lasting advantages through both enhanced resilience and access to nature-related opportunities.

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A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Proposal Deadline: June 19, 2024 Submit Proposals here: [link] You are invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming edited book with the working title, Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development published by ACRL. What role are librarians playing in these changes?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Originally developed to exchange flu data, AIMS expanded in the following years to enable laboratories, hospitals, government agencies, and public health jurisdictions to trade information about many public health threats. AWS tools remain essential for modernizing and scaling the platform.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Developers love open source software, and businesses value the innovation that it supports. The big reason why developers like using open source is that they can get started easier and faster. This speed and agility helps developers work on problems faster. Why is open source at risk? This means money.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 25, 2024

One of the most pivotal areas is enhancing ESG and sustainability goals, cited by over 80% of respondents. Implementing highly secure technology and using robust building management systems (over 60%) is key, particularly as these are highly vulnerable to hacking.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This includes creating new channels and functions; developing and testing with DevOps; integrating data analytics; and adopting backup and archival mechanisms. Figure 1 illustrates how these and other tactics support strategic modernization and tactical augmentation on a spectrum of cost and risk, as well as speed to implement and automation.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It highlights the importance of trust-building in community development. However, there are challenges to consider, including resource constraints , equity issues , and sustainability concerns. When thoughtfully implemented, compensation can be a powerful tool for fostering deeper, more meaningful community involvement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices. When these systems are stable, well-documented, and still actively developed, there is no reason to read the word ‘legacy’ as a pejorative.” By adopting a frugal discipline, they continue to innovate sustainably.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 22, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving landscape, leadership coaching is an indispensable tool for enhancing performance, fostering development and driving a culture of continuous improvement across all levels of government. A critical decision for government entities implementing coaching programs is whether to engage internal or external coaches.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Accelerate digital transformation by reusing what works When a government organization develops a solution to meet a shared common need and publishes their solution as open source software , other governments can reuse their proven solution—saving agencies around the world time and resources along the way to modernization and innovation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the world of modern application development, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies are essential for ensuring rapid and reliable delivery of software. Note: This solution was developed and implemented by Spatial Front, Inc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, I developed the new purpose-trained model using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to better assist in creating a more wildfire smoke-focused object detection model. If thermal imagery is available, consider implementing an ensemble approach to improve model performance and confidence.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Figure 2 shows the AWS Cloud Value Framework: cost, productivity, resilience, agility, sustainability. The five pillars of the AWS Cloud Value Framework are cost savings (TCO), staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. Build a FinOps Robust financial governance is vital for cloud success.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Because federal agencies cover a wide breadth of domains, it is challenging to develop a one-size-fits-all approach for document processing. Cost efficiency and sustainability – The compute and human resource costs to manually process documents are a huge constraint. Adaptability – Technology is developing quickly in this space.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 30, 2023

How can data centres become more sustainable in an age when our digital lives demand increasing volumes of energy ? What can data centre operators do today to get ahead of the game on mandatory climate change and environmental sustainability commitments and reduce their environmental impact? But what’s next?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For a deep dive into this use case, also watch the re:Invent 2023 session on Building next-generation sustainability workloads with open data (SUS304). This publicly available data (via the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative , or ASDI) exists as parquet files and is stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 5, 2017

The City of Branson was the first city in Missouri to implement Priority Based Budgeting. They realized that a Strategic Plan is incomplete, without the backing and support of resources (money and people) to achieve it - PBB was their tool to execute and implement the Strategic Plan, a vital road map for it’s ultimate fulfillment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting Japan’s digital transformation (DX) ambition by helping Japanese customers modernize IT and innovate securely at pace, driving sustainable economic growth. We are also focused on helping our customers meet their sustainability goals with cloud technology.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

That doesn’t mean the switch to hybrid isn’t worth exploring, however – it just means a strategic plan must be put in place to prepare for such threats.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Office of Personnel Management charged federal agencies to develop and implement diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) plans. The act of trusting builds transparency, added Nate Benjamin, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at AmeriCorps. It’s not enough to issue a paycheck for the work.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. A recent great example is the Water Resources Development Act.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

In India, AWS worked with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to develop a teleconsultation platform when COVID-19 hit India so that patients could seek medical support virtually from their homes. Why moving to the cloud should be part of your sustainability strategy. Staying secure with the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

When a government organization develops a solution to meet a shared common need and publishes their solution as open source software , other governments can reuse their proven solution—saving agencies around the world time and resources along the way to modernization and innovation.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Recommendations for city governments In the face of looming fiscal challenges, city governments must adopt strategic measures to ensure financial stability and sustainability. Enhance financial planning: Implement financial planning and forecasting tools to better predict and manage budget shortfalls.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 21, 2023

When it comes to cybersecurity, it often boils down to implementing security solutions, measures, and policies that will allow for change down the line when it is needed. Cybersecurity-minded future-proofing requires forethought regarding making security measures and practices adaptable to various potential developments.

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