AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Liam Maxwell
Liam is the Director of Government Transformation at AWS. His work has consistently focused on leveraging modern technology to accelerate government modernization and reform programs, including a project in 2022-2024 that ensured continuity of government services for Ukraine by moving operations to the cloud. As the UK’s first Chief Technology Officer, he spearheaded significant reforms in government digital services and technology infrastructure.
The top 5 challenges of public service transformation
The Amazon 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.
Modernizing government for the new normal: Advice for building resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that public sector organizations need modern infrastructure, capabilities and controls to overcome the disruption caused by global health outbreaks. Organizations that embraced cloud services proved more responsive. They were able to continue operating remotely and serving their customers and citizens, demonstrating agility, scalability, and speed. In How Governments Can Build Resilience in a New Normal: Emerging Practices from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, a new policy paper from the AWS Institute, we outline how organizations can use the cloud to recover from the disruption that the virus brought, as well as become more resilient for future challenges.
Open source in the fight against COVID-19
As we continue to work with public sector bodies around the world, AWS understands how valuable open source software and development communities are at this time. To accelerate the combined global response to COVID-19, we gathered examples of third-party open code, tools, and standards that reformers in the public sector can immediately use. We’ve included these in a new resource now available in Open Government Solutions.