Latin America (LATAM) has tremendous opportunity to fulfill its highest potential through empowering its citizens with the latest technologies, including generative artificial intelligence (AI), to make the most impact for its communities to thrive. I’m curious, like many of you, about the opportunities technology provides in LATAM. Andrés Tahta, managing director for LATAM public sector industry sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS), is an inspirational trailblazer who has devoted his career to uniquely solving tough problems with the power of technology. Andrés embraces the diversity among his ..read more

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci called health misinformation “the enemy of pandemic control.” Around the US, public health officials are grappling with how to keep their communities safe from the potentially deadly effects of medical misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. Misinformation is false or inaccurate information spread in error, regardless of intent. Disinformation is misinformation that is knowingly or intentionally spread by bad actors. Malinformation is information based on fact but purposely taken out of con ..read more

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations. These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources. Comprehensive knowledge of critical infrastructure and real-time updates to assets and critical end-use loads drives the need for an agile data model capable of integrating ..read more

Education leaders are eager for solutions to the difficulties facing schools across the country. With strained local resources impacting educators, it is more critical than ever for the education community to adapt and evolve to meet student needs and address challenges. Educators know that more resources can help provide personalized approaches that better address students’ individual learning needs. With many constraints and demands on local budgets, getting additional resources can be difficult—forcing educators to do more with less. To help a limited number of teachers and administrators ..read more

UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research. It houses a vast, continuously growing dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information. From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. Research participants also provided consent for linkage to their health-related records. Today, UK Biobank has about 10,000 variables per volunteer, from simple lifestyle information to physical measures ..read more

The artificial intelligence (AI) era arrived with a bang—and it’s here to stay. With 60 percent of US students already using generative AI tools, school leaders are trying to get ahead of this trend. They know that while AI has the potential to be transformative for K12 schools, it must be implemented carefully. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping K12 school leaders understand how to leverage this new technology in the most practical and responsible ways. Together with the Council of the Great City Schools and the Consortium for School Networking, we created the K-12 Readiness Checklist and ..read more

Educational institutions around the world seek reliable options that allow administrators, professors, teachers, and students to maintain connectivity and productivity on- or off-campus. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace provides a curated digital catalog to help institutions navigate evolving situations and quickly deploy solutions. In 2023, more than 2,000 education customers around the world subscribed to software in AWS Marketplace. These customers highlight three main advantages of procuring software through AWS Marketplace: speed, security and governance, and economic benefits. Reco ..read more

The IT for Development research program at the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (ITD Lab at UNO) created an application website using a SQL Server database. This application, called ETeams, connects small businesses and microenterprises to student-led research teams to help them solve business problems using technology and training interventions. The ETeams program uses a relational database to diagnose the problems small businesses face when implementing technology. Once a diagnosis is made, alternative solutions to the proble ..read more

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies in history, offering higher education institutions the opportunity to re-imagine a world where learning is highly personalized, seamless, and available to everyone. With this in mind, there’s one question that is a point of conversation across campuses: how can we leverage this technology and realize its potential while preparing our institutions, faculty, staff, and students for responsible use? In response, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped EDUCAUSE develop a Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment ..read more

Last month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted its fourth Gov2Gov event: Responsible AI Implementation at the Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC. The event convened senior public sector leaders and decision-makers from across the US Government (USG) to hear from White House officials and chief AI officers from federal government agencies. Speakers discussed the USG’s implementation of the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, shared successes in adopting AI technologies to advance USG missions, and discussed challenges and opportu ..read more