AWS Public Sector Blog

Mohammed Reda

Author: Mohammed Reda

Mohammed Reda is a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He helps UK schools, universities, and EdTech companies adopt cloud technologies, improve their educational offerings, and innovate on AWS.

Empowering underserved youth with AI career support: KLCI's journey on AWS

Empowering underserved youth with AI career support: KLCI’s journey on AWS

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The Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative (KLCI Africa), a nonprofit social enterprise headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, set out to solve this problem using generative AI and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, we describe how KLCI Africa built Rafiki AI, a WhatsApp-based generative AI career advisor that delivers personalized career guidance to underserved and displaced youth in under 2 minutes.

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Universities across the UK conduct tens of thousands of online interviews and exams each year. During a single admissions intake, over 20,000 video interviews were recorded for international applicants, with 1.3% of sessions showing confirmed fraud, including 0.15% involving deepfakes. A survey by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) found that 2% of students […]

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Empowering underserved learners with digital skills: Nigeria’s 3MTT program on AWS

Without targeted interventions, many young people transition into adulthood without the skills required by today’s economy. Workforce-oriented skilling has therefore become a critical bridge from exclusion to employability. This post explores how Nigeria’s The Three Million Technical Talent (3MTT) initiative—built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supported by the AWS Education Equity Initiative (EEI)—is addressing this challenge by delivering market-relevant digital skills to millions of young people.

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Educating for a greener future: Realizing sustainability gains with AWS Cloud migration

To understand how migrating to AWS can help educational institutions meet their sustainability goals, we first need to unpack the environmental impact of IT operations. That means examining the actual carbon math behind IT and where emissions really come from.

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From vision to reality: Inspiring your educational institution’s first steps in AI with AWS

To support education leaders on their AI journey, we’ve developed a practical guide that maps real-world challenges to proven AI use cases. While not exhaustive, these examples serve as inspiration—highlighting what others have achieved and helping you explore how AI can address your institution’s priorities

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How ZNotes’ Amazon Bedrock chatbot addresses educational inequality globally

ZNotes, a social-impact startup on a mission to end educational inequality, primarily reaching young learners aged 14-18, is working to bridge this gap by providing free access to high-quality notes, videos, and quizzes that are co-created with top students to foster a collaborative peer-learning community. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), ZNotes enhances its ability to deliver accessible, high-quality learning experiences, ensuring that students—regardless of their background can receive the support they need to succeed. Read this post to learn more.

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Enhancing resource sharing with AWS Outposts

In this post, we explore how AWS services, open source software, and bespoke source code can help address resource sharing enhancements requested by public sector customers using AWS Outposts. This solution aims to provide greater flexibility, control, and cost management for organizations leveraging Outposts in multi-account environments, specifically focusing on key AWS resources, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) on Outposts.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. From naturalization procedures to asylum applications and university admissions, many crucial processes still rely on manual or partially manual methods, leading to significant backlogs, extended processing times, and increased costs. This post explores how Amazon Bedrock can be used to address these challenges, focusing on streamlining naturalization applications.