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Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap

AWS Public Sector Blog

For the first time in three years, public and commercial sector customers gathered at the Shaw Centre for the AWS Summit Ottawa. Since our launch here in 2016, we’ve invested $1.4B Public sector organizations are being challenged to do more with less, while digitally transforming the way they operate.

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How the UK’s Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is building rigorous evidence about how to close education achievement gaps: An interview with Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive, EEF – Episode #130

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Launched in 2011 with a founding grant of £125 million from the UK Department of Education, today it operates as an independent grant making nonprofit. To do that, it has a unique strategy: increasing the supply of high-quality evidence about what works in order to enable better decisions by teachers and school leaders.