AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

With 60 percent of US students already using generative AI tools, school leaders are trying to get ahead of this trend. These are fundamental tools to guide school districts as they implement generative AI in their schools. The artificial intelligence (AI) era arrived with a bang—and it’s here to stay.

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 1, 2024

That structure may lead you to questions to ask. Now you’re ready to write your questions. Craft targeted questions that elicit insightful responses. Add intention to your questions. If you want someone to share a firsthand experience or observation, craft your sentence to gently lead your interviewee to that answer.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In low- and middle-income countries that do not have well-established health systems , the absence of potentially outdated infrastructure may actually create opportunities to integrate digital tools more easily, opening up possibilities to deliver more effective healthcare while improving the efficiency of health systems.

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GovLoop

APRIL 30, 2024

We need to make it simple for users to ask the same question everywhere.” Today, “the person who is busiest is the person who’s getting questions all day: Where do I find this? With AI, people will get sensible answers to plain-language questions. That could help agencies use AI to support over-burdened workers.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These are answers funders look for when they read your grant application. Clearly identify the questions the program needs to answer. What measurement tools will you use? Did the assessment answer the key questions? Did any other questions or needs come to light? If so, how? and “ How do we get there?

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Super Library Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

Any time we had a question, we could find the answer by heading to the cruise line website. Your library’s website is as important a marketing tool as the sign on the outside of your physical location. Track questions for one week to one month, depending on the size of your library. Have any questions?

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GovLoop

MARCH 25, 2024

Generate Tools for Learning Videos are one of the most important — and most expensive — training tools. For example, to generate questions for a training poll about the False Claims Act, he used this prompt: I am preparing a live training presentation, and we would like audience participation.

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GovLoop

JULY 10, 2023

Agencies must ensure that data and data tools are accessible and useful to non-data experts, as there won’t always be a scientist on hand to analyze information. Anyone using data needs to be trained on how data can apply to the questions they need answered. But data is only helpful if a person can read, analyze and wield it.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

AI-driven self-service portals and “bots” make it easier and more efficient for people to access government data, especially when the agency in question is large or staffing is light. For example, the Internal Revenue Service uses voice bots in both English and Spanish to answer callers’ tax return questions. At the U.S.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Gemini’s Ultra model can also power AlphaCode2, a new code-writing tool that can outperform 85% of competition-level human computer programmers. Despite Gemini’s remarkable achievements, questions linger about its collaboration with governments for testing, as discussed at the recent AI safety summit.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 27, 2024

However, there is one lingering question that has always and continues to be in the background: “How to balance accessibility, productivity and security in an AI world.” The answer is Data Security and Organizational Security. Building this team may take time and slow down the organization.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Know When Engagement Matters (and Doesn’t) Agencies develop many digital tools for constituent engagement, but sometimes the best response is…silence. And when governments truly need feedback on topics such as capital planning or local development, Xiao believes in public engagement and giving residents tools to weigh in.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 16, 2023

At the moment, everyone is playing with ChatGPT , the new open-access Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that is able to write remarkably clear prose in a range of styles. Only the first of the three paragraphs is an answer to my question. As with the taxi question, it is mistaking amplification for meaning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Kern Community College District (KCCD) district in California is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design and build a student-centered course planning tool to support the district’s Guided Pathways model. Moving forward, the district would like to expand use of the Guided Pathways tool, eventually offering it statewide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Recent staffing shortages have forced select 911 centers to fall below the following National Emergency Number Association (NENA) standard: “90% of all 911 calls SHALL be answered within (≤) fifteen (15) seconds. Ninety-five (95%) of all 911 calls SHOULD be answered within (≤) twenty (20) seconds.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Incoming calls with relatively simple questions prevented city employees from addressing more complex inquiries. This Georgia city is one of the first cities in the world to use open data with Amazon Alexa, pulling information from the city’s data hub – an official, open data portal for the city – to answer constituents’ questions.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But it’s important to remember that despite the convincing results you may get from a generative AI chatbot such as ChatGPT, Google’s BARD or Microsoft’s Bing , the chatbot is not thinking, and it doesn’t understand either your question or its answer. The chatbot’s answers are so realistic because it has so many examples.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Together, we can help institutions answer important strategic questions, such as return on investment, marketing efficacy, or identification of learners who are at risk of not persisting or transferring. Collegis and Google Cloud both have experts who can work alongside institutions’ IT teams.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

APRIL 12, 2024

Then, ask yourself the following questions: How will I complete this goal? What will it take to meet the deadline? What tasks/steps need to be completed along the way to move forward to the next? What defines the goal as being complete?

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be an amazing tool for improving operations. Focusing on the potential risks, even if they are unlikely to occur, can prevent adoption of new and useful tools. Grounding provides appropriate contextual guidance on how the AI answers and the data from which it draws its responses.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

There are many types of AI tools being developed. One example is ChatGPT, a text-based tool providing answers to questions in a conversational manner. ChatGPT’s answer: Fixing a water main break typically requires the expertise of a professional plumber or water utility company. That is really important.

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GovLoop

APRIL 15, 2024

Second, agencies must provide AI tools with the right kind of data and, third, they must use models tailored to the agency’s specific need. Organizations typically cherry pick the data they want and delete the rest, said Barlowe, but that leaves AI tools with relatively small data repositories to draw from. “In

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Slab is a knowledge management tool and wiki. Overview of Slab.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Team members also help researchers transition their analyses and models from the desktop to more capable and plentiful resources, providing the opportunity to explore their data and answer research questions (on-premise or in the cloud) at a scale typically not possible on desktops or departmental servers.”

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Center for Community Progress

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Tyler decision makes clear that tax foreclosure is almost exclusively a debt collection tool. Unfortunately, the Court declined to provide much clarity beyond these points, leaving states and local governments seeking to comply with Tyler with many questions. The answer appears to be yes.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

JANUARY 31, 2024

The answer to this question is: Yes! Look for common connections through Linked In, as mentioned earlier, and other social media tools. Ask clarifying questions, lots of questions. Ask clarifying questions, lots of questions. Do Relationships Matter? In the United States, there are more than 1.6

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Register to vote or check your registration today with TurboVote, Democracy Works’ flagship tool for voter registration. million personalized election notifications through TurboVote, answered over 23,000 individual voter inquiries through their Help Desk, and gave 6.5 In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

RPA is a software tool that integrates with almost any system or application and performs manual, repetitive, time-consuming tasks. AI and ML can help answer questions on classification ( Is this X or Y? ) , anomaly detection ( Is this unusual?), Protecting sensitive data is also paramount.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 7, 2023

The JTRP team is no stranger to answering big transportation questions, and their prior research includes the improvement of road safety and traffic signal systems using connected and autonomous vehicle data. Darcy Bullock, Director of the JTRP at Purdue University.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 6, 2023

The woman who answered was a delight to work with. She was friendly, asking me questions about my day as she worked. Here are 3 ways to use your library’s customer service as a marketing tool. Ask us any question, anytime by calling 555-5555 or emailing us at questions@mylibrary.org” is sufficient.

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Super Library Marketing

JULY 24, 2023

And if your library is trying to drive circulation, it turns out there is a definitive answer. They asked three reading-related questions. If the answer is yes, how much more? Ask a question of your staff. The platform now boosts a million posts every two months JUST ABOUT BOOKS. Hang on to your hat, my friends.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 19, 2022

But as David Smith with Citrix points out, hybrid work is the future, and it’s an important recruitment and retention tool as government agencies struggle to find talent. Giving employees the tools for hybrid work goes beyond laptop cameras. And then together, as a pair, the two colleagues can seek answers. Read the full guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amazon Pinpoint , a multi-channel communications tool, can help in this scenario. Consider another example scenario: Jon, a Medicaid contact center agent, fields questions from calling members and assists members through the renewal process. She misses the letter and doesn’t respond in time. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 27, 2022

But this does not answer all the questions about using Open-Source Software. This editorial will look at answering these questions and will try to enlighten the reader about the future of Open-Source Software. They stress the importance of being accessible, and the collaborative benefits this software poses.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Questions in grant applications that solicit information about how the work of an organization makes a difference may look like this: How do you know that your solution to the problem will work? Answering these questions is more than complying with funder requirements. What will happen as a result of your work?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This Christmas Eve, as NORAD prepares to address more than 150,000 calls from inquisitive children, Amazon Connect will help manage the spike in demand to make sure questions about Santa’s journey from the North Pole get answered.”. For more information, families can visit the NORAD Tracks Santa website at www.noradsanta.org.

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zencity

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We don’t mean to get too philosophical here; the answer is obviously yes, the park exists. We are here to augment your communication efforts with a suite of new Zencity tools to make Comms work more efficient, effective, and impactful. If a new park has been built and no one knows about it, does the park exist?

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