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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. Dan Anthony serves as executive vice president and FedNow® chief information officer for Federal Reserve Financial Services.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. The 'Spanish flu' was so called because Spain was liberal in its control of information, yet the virus came from China.

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How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, XULA’s chief information officer (CIO), Dr. Mable Moore, launched XULA’s journey to future-proofing the university with the cloud. She knew modernizing the university’s technology could help improve the security of the university, improve business continuity, and solve the unique challenges of the university’s location.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

That information was in another system, but we had no clue because our systems were not connected.” This lets agencies share only the appropriate data with the appropriate participating agencies in a secure and compliant manner. But days later, it could turn out the same person was wanted for a crime in another district.

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Market, Message, and Medium: A Library Marketer Shares How She Tackles Promotions in a Time Crunch

Super Library Marketing

Suzanne Macaulay began her career as a Children’s Librarian at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, New York in 2005. In her role, she coordinates outreach, consults on youth services, helps secure state aid for library construction, manages continuing education for her libraries, and does the marketing.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. increasing the quality of candidates recruited, all underpinned by unlimited capacity, scalability, and high levels of security.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. Although government, independent trail sites and apps have information. I rode this trail the other day. There were some amenities here and there.