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5 public sector technology predictions for 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

As we look toward the future, it’s clear that public sector organizations will need to continue to adapt and innovate to successfully navigate the constantly-evolving global landscape and changing needs of their end users and constituents. In 2021, the space industry grew at its fastest pace in years. Commercialization of space.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. Find more AWS Institute thought leadership for public service leaders.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. 10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class).

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July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments. Public Sector Center of Expertise. We bring together thought leadership and research relating to digital transformation and innovation in the public sector.

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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

While pensions and retiree health liabilities garner lots of headlines as dramatic fiscal threats, a less-publicized, but still critical concern is leave liability -- the amounts that are paid out for unused sick or vacation leave to departing employees. How many more is an open question. The 60 municipalities studied are but a small sample.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

Solving for national scale opportunities requires long-term thinking—across data, applications, research, innovation, and citizen outcomes,” said Rahul Sharma, president of India public sector at AWS, as he opened the keynote at the AWS Summit New Delhi. On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 When it first launched, 1.9

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

I saw first-hand how communities are impacted by these types of events while living in Haiti in 2010,” shared Andrés Meira, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Grillo. In 2021, when fire erupted in the data center in the Province of Chubut in Argentina, authorities identified a critical need to migrate local government data.