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A tech pipeline for rural communities: West Virginia joins AWS Tech Alliance

AWS Public Sector Blog

The West Virginia Tech Alliance will directly connect more than 750 learners to cloud employers throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. Learners engaged in the West Virginia Tech Alliance should expect similar opportunities to engage with AWS employer customers in 2024.

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Technology’s role in sustainability: Takeaways from the AWS Sustainability Breakfast Briefing

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sustainability Breakfast Briefing on February 20, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland, featured a panel of sustainability experts from AWS customers and partners, as well as educational talks on important sustainability themes.

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How to avoid and recover from cyber and ransomware attacks

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Implement an active threat and vulnerability management program. Armed with that background, it’s possible to prepare internal or external cyber threat management teams and educate employees about what to look out for and how to navigate issues. © Stevanovicigor. Focus on security attacks before they happen.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

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CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management. Cultural Studies of Extraction.”

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Powering the generative AI era: What you missed at the AWS Public Sector Symposium Brussels

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon has a goal to reach net-zero by 2040 and is on a path to match all of our global electricity use, including AWS data centers, with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025 – five years ahead of our original 2030 target. Register now for the AWS Summit in Washington, DC on 26 June 2024. Want more in-person public sector content?

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Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Franz Loewenherz, the mobility planning and solutions manager for the City of Bellevue, Washington. Supporting safe mobility for VRUs is critical as these neighborhoods prepare for 30,000 new jobs and 27,000 new residents by 2025. Image by City of Bellevue).

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2024 Trends for Online Community Engagement

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This experience allows us to take a pulse of engagement strategies and outcomes across a variety of fields and reflect on emerging online community engagement trends for 2024. These spaces can be built out to discuss and help local governments manage the process in an agreeable timeline, collaboratively with their communities.