AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Some key features that the SHARPEN team focused on during the design, test, and build phases include video tutoring sessions served up in bite-size format, flashcards, quizzes, study feed, insights, and accessibility for all learning types. What does the SHARPEN app do for students?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

EHR vendors produce new features designed to deliver improved clinician and patient experiences. Sometimes, the new features can introduce IT challenges. EHR vendors now deliver new features quarterly or faster. IT teams can no longer wait a year or two to get comfortable with the new technology these features might require.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Uncovering the Challenge In the landscape of local government, municipal staff satisfaction presents a significant yet often underappreciated challenge. Having a revolving door of dissatisfied employees not only disrupts the continuity of service but also imposes considerable financial and operational strains.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Amazon ECS with a Fargate launch type has a built-in integration with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights that can be enabled with one click to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from applications. Moodle’s global community, plugins ecosystem, and no-cost model helped with this transition. Why use containers on AWS?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) previously featured its work to achieve “functional zero,” the state of reaching a balance between the number of people becoming homeless (the inflow) and the number of people becoming housed (the outflow). Learn some of the top takeaways from Fix This episode, and listen to the full episode here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers in government, nonprofit, healthcare, and education have an enduring mission: to improve the lives of their fellow citizens. The organizations responsible for those missions need technologies and solutions that solve challenges rapidly and securely. This is changing the way we engage as a society.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

health uses GeoAI to gain insights on things like social and environmental determinants of health, disease and infection rates, health risks, and challenges to access for line-of-service healthcare. This synthesis offers unique insight on the impact that the lack of health access has on individual people and their communities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Technologies like containerization and serverless help customers migrate and modernize their applications. This is particularly valuable in times of crisis or when there’s a need to respond swiftly to constituent demands.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this blog post, learn how to use machine learning (ML) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a solution that can predict hospital readmission – in this case, of diabetic patients – based on data inputs like number of procedures and medications, number of diagnoses, and admission type, among other features.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Cloud technology is transforming the way organizations use data to make decisions, provide services to communities, and collaborate across departments and business processes. However, some public sector organizations are challenged by procurement. How are cloud solutions different than legacy technology? With cloud, the model is different.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 24, 2023

Public sector organizations are facing a generational shift in their workforce. On one hand, they are experiencing the impact of the “silver tsunami”, the mass retirement of baby boomers who have been the backbone of public service for decades. Teams-Tip-Sheet-Brochure-A5.pdf

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Proposal for a new Downtown baseball stadium in Kansas City that is tightly integrated into the urban fabric. My writings on stadiums and arenas have a framework of elements to consider when dealing with a project. The writings on "transformational projects action planning" discuss both interior and exterior elements.

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Social Pinpoint

JUNE 18, 2023

Supporting Local Businesses In light of COVID-19, the City of Canada Bay implemented a campaign known as ‘ Love Local ‘ The primary objective of this project was to offer support to local businesses in the area of Canada Bay by enabling them to register their address and company information to be featured on a Social Map.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2020

We worked with our partner MTX Group to create the app and are now deploying it with governments in Florida, New York, and many other states so they can use our tools for insights into how the virus’s spread is affecting people and state healthcare systems. In the U.S., You can learn more about our work here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses ML to extract insights from text. For example, in fiscal year (FY) 2022, the federal spend on all these programs is estimated to be about $3.26 These programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and others.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2023 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. historic architecture 2. historic architecture 2. Photo: Green Minneapolis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

AI and ML empower transportation agencies to extract valuable insights from their raw data collected using IoT devices like sensors and cameras, enhancing the quality of services. The insights generated will enable organizations to formulate impactful preventive strategies and elevate the overall safety standards on the road.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Balancing factors such as energy and resources is essential for both the growth and maintenance of the network in physical space while simultaneously optimising it for efficient information processing. Unlike real neurons, their system employed computational nodes with similar input-transformation-output functions and interconnectivity.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

As we begin our new year, we can reflect on the important moments in the municipal government space with our municipal year in review. The world of local government is constantly changing. Laws, technology, and citizen demands ensure that their municipalities continue to keep their finger on the pulse of progress.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS) deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global compliance frameworks. When used in coordination with other AWS services, it provides a comprehensive low-code solution across over 35 AWS services.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Preparing for Security Copilot in US Government Clouds With the announcement of Security Copilot back in March, there has been a growing demand to understand and expand the role of machine learning (ML) in security.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We are excited to tell you about the many new Teams features we have added in August and September. We are excited to tell you about the many new Teams features we have added in August and September. Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds. What are the biggest obstacles we face in achieving CMMC compliance?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In the second, discover how customers can deploy virtual appliances with Gateway Load Balancer. But many customers have requirements beyond the scope of these network security controls, such as deep packet inspection (DPI), application protocol detection, domain name filtering, and intrusion prevention system (IPS). Learn more about NGFWs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. Without a safe place to sleep at night, it’s hard to focus on employment, staying healthy, raising a family — the building blocks of a good life. And they’re using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to coordinate their response.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Many US federal agencies have adopted a hybrid workplace model, which has increased the need to enable access to applications from anywhere to support distributed agency employees. However, the adoption of the cloud and recent trends in employee mobility by federal agencies has extended the perimeter to the internet. However, TIC 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digital technologies have the potential to make mobility systems more sustainable, intelligent, and inclusive. Several islands, from the Naxos in Greece to the Isle of Wight in the UK , have established themselves as innovation testbeds demonstrating what the future of mobility could look like. Islands can help us to imagine the art of the possible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

They enable simple, secure, open standards-based, and interoperable data-sharing, while allowing for organizations to maintain full control over their data. Data spaces help overcome the problem of inter-organizational data integration across heterogeneous technology stacks, environments, and geographies.

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Partnership for Public Service

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Generating insightful customer experience research. This year we released our 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings and data and Profiles In Improvement , which highlight best practices from agencies that improved in the areas of return to the office, recognition, work-life balance and senior leadership.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The common reasons customers may need to invoke Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in a standard account from an AWS GovCloud (US) account (or vice versa) include: cross-domain applications, feature parity, and if the AWS service doesn’t exist in AWS GovCloud (US). In this blog post, we explore how customers can navigate these scenarios.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

This feature of open source software brings several benefits. Managing donors, members, and constituents is essential to the success of most nonprofits. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are an important part of this process. There are several CRM applications that focus on the needs of nonprofit organizations.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Photo courtesy of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library This is the first in the 2024 series of social media guides for libraries. In the coming weeks, new best practice guides for Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and TikTok will be released. Stay tuned! billion monthly active users. billion monthly active users.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Public health agencies are looking to modernize their infrastructure to make sure that their health solutions can scale equitably and reliably in any situation. Many governmental public health agencies across the US look to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its culture of innovation and the AWS Partner Network to help them innovate quickly.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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