Category: State or Local Government

To improve safety and convenience, transportation agencies amass a substantial volume of data. However, these organizations encounter challenges in data accuracy validation due to issues related to data quality and occasional missing information. With the incorporation of new artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities from HAQM Web Services (AWS), they can take advantage of no-code solutions to identify and address data gaps.

Fleet managers can use HAQM Web Services (AWS) to ingest and analyze fleet driver data. In this post, we share how a large public transit agency in the United States worked with AWS to create a proof-of-concept (POC) to analyze operator behavior and improve its visibility of sudden acceleration-based events.

Last year, HAQM Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to improve the employment gap by increasing tech skills globally. To kick off 2024, we are excited to announce West Virginia as the fourth state in the US to join the Tech Alliance, and the first to focus specifically on developing a tech pipeline to rural communities. Read this blog post to learn more about the Tech Alliance and its expansion to West Virginia.

The HAQM Web Services (AWS) Government Transformation team (GTT) has taken more than 5,000 senior public sector officials in 23 countries through its executive education program. Using participant feedback, GTT has identified five common digital transformation challenges that public sector leaders face and published a new series about the challenges. Read this blog to learn more.

With the help of Kyndryl and HAQM Web Services (AWS), Arizona’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) migrated its business service desk into HAQM Connect to improve customer service, increase efficiency, and save costs. Read this blog post to learn how the MVD continues innovating and enhancing services to better serve the people of Arizona.

HAQM Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to meet the NCSC’s guidance on “using cloud services securely.” Read this blog post to learn how the LZA on AWS can support each recommended action in the NCSC’s guidance.

This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA. 

A recent study, “The Total Economic Impact of Data Integration for the Public Sector,” analyzes the benefits, costs, and best practices associated with data integration. Read this blog post to learn more about the study, which finds that although there is an initial investment cost for organizations, interoperability can save tax payer dollars and alleviate administrative burdens.

Jeff Kratz, vice president of worldwide public sector channels and alliances at HAQM Web Services (AWS), has attended 11 re:Invent conferences and continues to be awestruck by the innovative ideas and value that AWS Partners bring to customers. For those who were unable to attend or watch virtually, Jeff summarizes some of re:Invent 2023’s key partner highlights in this blog post.

There are 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK and globally, it is estimated that 15 percent of the population have some form of learning disability. Read this blog post to learn how Swindon Borough Council, a local authority in England, used HAQM Bedrock to create the Easy Read solution, which helps make vital public information more accessible and inclusive for its constituents.