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Orange County United Way uses Amazon Connect to optimize 2-1-1 community service

Serving hundreds of thousands of residents in all 34 cities of the region, Orange County United Way provides a wide range of vital community services throughout Orange County, California. After working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner SoftwareONE to migrate its crisis hotline to Amazon Connect in the AWS Cloud, United Way now boasts enhanced call routing, data collection, and supervisory tools. Read this post to learn more.

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Unlock the power of fine-grained access control with Amazon Verified Permissions

Public sector organizations face stringent compliance requirements, and any unauthorized access to protected health information (PHI) or personal identifiable information (PII) can result in legal penalties and reputational damage. This post aims to demonstrate how public sector customers can develop a fine-grained authorization module using Amazon Web Services (AWS) identity services, extending beyond the capabilities of traditional role-based access control (RBAC), so they can achieve compliance objectives.

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Highlights from the AWS re:Invent 2024 Public Sector Innovation Session

During AWS re:Invent 2024, an Innovation Session presented by Worldwide Public Sector Vice President Dave Levy illustrated how AWS empowers customers to innovate and tackle critical challenges faster and more efficiently using cloud technology and generative artificial intelligence (AI). Take a few minutes to read this post and learn more about the transformative initiatives, inspiring customer stories, and technological developments that help AWS public sector customers improve life on Earth.

Announcing the 2024-2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners

The year 2024 was filled with both excitement and thoughtful consideration in the nonprofit sector as the world seeks to understand and apply transformative cloud technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance impact and increase productivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is privileged to work alongside organizations in the social sector who are using these tools for the benefit of people and our planet, and who are leading conversations about how to do it responsibly. We’re proud to announce that many of those organizations are AWS IMAGINE Grant winners, representing our largest cohort of recipients to date.

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How an open source EMR system has transformed patient healthcare in more than 50 countries

In countries where demand for healthcare outweighs available resources, and populations are spread out in remote locations, open source technologies using Amazon Web Services (AWS) can transform providers’ and patients’ experience. Bahmni, an open source electronic medical records (EMR) system is one that we have pioneered. It gives doctors rapid access to up-to-date health records and test results so that they have better information and more time for patient care. A system that started in a single hospital in a remote part of central India is now used by more than 500 hospitals in 50 countries.

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How Amazon Bedrock helped the UK’s Governors for Schools generate meaningful insights

Governors for Schools is a charity operating across England and Wales to find and place volunteers on school and academy governing boards. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has worked with Governors for Schools by providing financial support, in addition to more than 100 AWS employees applying to take on school governance roles, providing much needed technical expertise in education. But in this post, we explain how Governors for Schools used Amazon Bedrock to process unstructured documents and generate meaningful insights into UK schools.

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Stop Soldier Suicide partners with Pariveda, AWS on mission to reduce suicide rates among US service members and veterans

Because more than two-thirds of service members who die by suicide have no history of mental illness or suicidal ideation, Stop Soldier Suicide (SSS) started the Black Box Project in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services. Launched as an early prototype to identify data from devices of those lost to suicide, the project is an effort to gain better insight into the warning signs of suicide in veterans to help support suicide postvention, intervention, and ultimately prevention. Read this post to learn more.

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re:Invent 2024: Your public sector playbook for AWS’s biggest event

On December 2, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference returns to Las Vegas for our 13th year of learning with cloud enthusiasts from around the world. This flagship AWS event unites global visionaries to explore the latest technologies redefining what’s possible for their missions. For our public sector pioneers, tailored sessions and activations will amplify your re:Invent experience, and this post will help you to start charting your personalized agenda today.

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Hydrating the Natural History Museum’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and Open Data on AWS

The Natural History Museum (NHM) in London is a world-class visitor attraction and a leading science research center. NHM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered up to transform and accelerate scientific research by bringing together a broad range of biodiversity and environmental data types in one place for the first time. In an earlier post, we discussed NHM’s overall vision for using open data in combination with large-scale compute, data systems, and machine learning (ML) to create the Planetary Knowledge Base (PKB), a knowledge graph of global biodiversity. In this post, we focus on the underlying services and architecture that comprise the PKB.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. They strive to improve the human condition in innumerable ways, yet they cannot raise capital like a commercial organization, so they have to make the most of the resources they have. They apply that frugal approach to IT: they build and operate only what they need to pursue their mission, and constantly innovate both to meet mission objectives and optimize cost. Even with these constraints, nonprofits aspire to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, and often, they use innovative IT architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to do it.