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How the City of Canton worked with Wi-Fiber to build a safer and more connected community

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020, the City of Canton, Ohio set out to build a better, safer, and more connected community. In 2020, Canton’s chief of police, Jack Angelo, wanted to extend public safety monitoring city-wide, saying “Eventually our goal is to have most all of the city covered,” by using Wi-Fiber’s extensive broadband mesh network.

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The PLUM Act: A New Era of Transparency into Senior Leadership Government

Partnership for Public Service

Fortunately, a bipartisan group in Congress last year took up the cause of modernizing the Plum Book in the cleverly named Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM Act). With a modern, online directory, the Office of Personnel Management will be able to fix errors or remedy omissions immediately.

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StateRAMP on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? Patch Manager can apply patches for both operating systems and applications. What is StateRAMP?

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How National University worked with AWS Partner ConcernCenter to provide scalable, customizable mental health support

AWS Public Sector Blog

The rising need for mental health resources put a strain on NU’s Student Wellness department—particularly on case managers who serve as frontline support for students seeking help. In May 2020, Maakestad began looking for a solution to support NU’s students through this crisis and beyond.

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020. A highly accomplished global selection committee chose winners from the nominations received, with the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award which the selection committee chose directly.

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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

Updated: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections managed by NASA—now includes cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. ASTER L1T Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs managed by Descartes Labs. Machine learning: Visual Anomaly (VisA) managed by AWS.

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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% Husam Alhmoud, managing partner and founder of ForteCloud, an Egyptian-based technology company that hires graduates of the AWS re/Start program, said: “As ForteCloud is expanding its operations, we are looking to double our headcount. Learn more about how to apply for AWS re/Start.