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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

AWS Public Sector

Photo credit: World Bank Transport Team 2) Road infrastructures connect households to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education. Alteia uses computer vision and geospatial imagery to efficiently extract road network data from satellite data. A road in rural Peru.

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NSF would award millions in AI prizes under bipartisan Senate bill

FedScoop

The challenges should represent “ambitious but achievable goals that utilize science, technology, and innovation to solve or advance solutions to problems to benefit the United States,” the bill states. AI advancements will improve the quality of life for all Americans. The sky is the limit.”

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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services.

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QA's Impact Before Software Releases

Extract Systems

Quality Assurance (QA) is commonly thought of as one of the final steps in the development cycle prior to release, which makes sense as generally a final round of testing is the last hold before a release goes out. Communication between developers and quality assurance as code is being built is very mutually beneficial as well.

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Japan’s Digital Agency accelerates government cloud migration with AWS generative AI–powered architecture reviews

AWS Public Sector

For this reason, adoption was often limited to simple infrastructure as a service (IaaS) migration, and the resulting systems were both expensive and failed to utilize the true value of cloud technology,” said Takeda. It will improve usability, expand use cases, and increase the efficiency of fee estimates and calculations for cloud usage.

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Using the cloud to advance collaborative water stewardship

AWS Public Sector

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. “Our The complexities of water data Water quality data is a complex data type.

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Generative AI: Understand the challenges to realize the opportunities

AWS Public Sector

This can help them answer customer queries efficiently, pinpoint significant changes to contracts, and assess risks such as fraud more accurately. Common use cases in public sector could be determining the best way to reduce Friday afternoon congestion, or how to manage building utilities more efficiently.