AWS Institute
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Institute breaks down barriers between public, private, and nonprofit sectors to identify common problems and engage technology experts to find a path forward. The Institute identifies strategies and pilot projects that can solve specific challenges, builds partnerships between and across organizations, rapidly prototypes new approaches, and shares best practices among similar organizations.
Areas of work
Digital transformation
Governments use technology to deliver better and more cost-effective citizen services. The Institute helps governments identify challenges in their transformation journeys and ways to address them using technology.
Data privacy and security
Cybersecurity is one of the most challenging aspects of the digital age. The Institute convenes public sector leaders to understand the cybersecurity challenges and how technology can mitigate them.
Economic development
Technology can accelerate human progress, bridge the digital divide, and expand access to economic opportunity. The Institute uncovers stories of how data helps address problems like homelessness and the opioid crisis.
The future of work
Technology opens new pathways for students and builds the human capital needed to excel in the digital economy. The Institute demonstrates how technology can help academic institutions innovate and prepare learners for future jobs.
Kiron Open Higher Education
Kiron Open Higher Education (Kiron) built its internal organizational applications for project management and more using AWS, which resulted in increased flexibility and scalability and a reduction in time to market and cost. Kiron was founded in 2015 with a mission to democratize education for refugees and underserved communities and is a winner of the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge. Using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon ElastiCache, Kiron has built and scaled flexible, customized learning pathways for its students. The Institute sat down with Kiron's Kate Muwoki to discuss how cloud technology helps her organization meet its mission.
Kiron provides refugees flexible learning pathways with AWS
Resources
Briefing Paper
The risks of the digital status quo
When considering digital transformation, governments tend to focus on the potential drawbacks of digital transformation and overlook important risks arising from the failure to adopt new technologies. Read this report on the risk of the digital status quo and how to mitigate it.
Briefing Paper
Strategies to spend smarter and deliver better
Governments are seeking innovative ways to deliver better services at lower costs. Success requires addressing structural, operational, and cultural barriers to technology adoption.
Briefing Paper
Going Cloud First
The cloud is allowing emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region to leapfrog innovation and deliver better and faster services to their citizens.
Download the Cloud First Playbook.
Reference Guide
Building Digital Skills
This paper offers strategies to help governments build a diverse and tech-savvy workforce, capable of driving digital transformation.
Briefing Paper
How technology helps cities become sustainable and inclusive
As cities become home to the majority of the world’s population, leaders are turning to cloud technology for solutions to the challenges they are facing – from traffic to public health crises and natural disasters.
Reference Guide
Open data for public good
The AWS Institute and AWS Open Data Program identify emerging issues around open data and offer best practices for data practitioners.
