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Electronic Plan Review Can Help Cities Streamline Approval Operations

State Tech Magazine

As noted by Forbes, investment in smart cities is expected to double from roughly $410 billion in 2020 to more than $820 billion in 2025. Consider the Ellinikon development near Athens, Greece, which includes everything from smart water management to IoT-enabled streetlights.… The challenge?

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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AWS re/Start MENA celebrates successful first year

AWS Public Sector Blog

in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% AWS re/Start is a no-cost, cohort-based, workforce development training program that first launched in the MENA region in June 2021. It is part of AWS’s effort to train 29 million people in cloud computing skills by 2025.

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Why government must heed real-time data management trends

Open Access Government - Technology News

The impact of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic was so significant that the UK government established a National Data Strategy in 2020, the aim of which was to use data to innovate, experiment, and drive a new era of growth. The government benefits from receiving and processing data in real-time. Dynamic data in the future.

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Japan: Science and technology policy

Open Access Government - Technology News

1) An earlier version of Open Access Government reported that in 2020, the Basic Law was amended for the first time in 25 years and changed its name to the Science, Technology, and Innovation Basic Law. The 6th Basic Plan, which covers the fiscal years 2021 to 2025, was the first developed after the amendment. (2)

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AWS skills training programs open doors to tech careers for Virginia workers

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020 alone, AWS investment in the construction and operation of data centers contributed $1.3 These initiatives are part of a larger effort to expand and diversify the tech workforce and meet AWS’s commitment to train 29 million people with no-cost cloud computing and technical skills training by 2025.

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How will low-code tech shape the future?

Open Access Government - Technology News

According to a BCS State of the Nation Report, job vacancies in the UK tech sector in the 2021 third quarter were up by 191% from the same period in 2020. One study of companies that used low-code development found that it increased digital innovation by 66%, boosted responsiveness, and reduced the need to hire full-time technical staff.

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