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Islands of innovation: Creating smart and sustainable European marinas and ports

AWS Public Sector Blog

Ports and marinas also support the exchange of goods and people in internal markets, enabling the connection of islands and other remote areas to the mainland. Ports and marinas are important catalysts for economic growth, tourism, and employment. The Spanish State Port Authority, for example, is backing the Port 4.0

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Rethinking how to hire and retain cloud talent in the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

These experts shared their success stories and offered best practices to state and local agencies looking to develop their own workforce strategies to build a robust pipeline of cloud talent. When Healey started in her role nearly four years ago, she held small group discussions to better understand what employees liked about their roles.

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3 ways tax agencies can use AI on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

State and local tax agencies process millions of tax filings and collect billions of tax dollars annually to support essential public services in health, safety, and education, as well as critical infrastructure such as roads and utilities. AI is any method by which a computer replicates tasks usually performed by humans.

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Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

Center for Community Progress

Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts. The United States used to be an overwhelmingly rural country. Approximately 72 percent of the land mass of the United States is designated as rural. In this chapter, Ann M.

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What we learned at Amazon re:MARS 2022 for the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

Today, scientists and visionaries around the world are working hard to develop the next-generation technologies that will shape our future. At re:MARS 2022, AWS announced that the combined Axiom Space and AWS team successfully communicated remotely with the Snowcone on the ISS, and the team performed edge processing on space-based datasets.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

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.