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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. billion more in its South African cloud infrastructure by 2029.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 million units.

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Girls in data: Inspiring the future of female data science

Open Access Government - Technology News

It comes as no surprise that, with booming investment in AI development, the demand for highly-skilled data scientists has risen dramatically in the past 10 years. But there are still not enough women in our field – in 2020 only 15% of data scientists were women, and that gap continues to widen in senior roles.

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Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale

Google Public Sector

Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 14.2%, according to Fortune Business Insights. That trend exploded when the pandemic forced education online, requiring every part of the education process to be digitized. The digitization of education isn’t slowing down.

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