Award spotlights local and regional government
cloud innovators that have set a new bar in using the AWS Cloud to
reduce costs, solve tough challenges, and offer new services to
citizens
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the call for entries for the second
City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program to recognize
local and regional governments and developers that are innovating
for the benefit of citizens using the AWS Cloud. AWS and a panel of
worldwide experts will award a total of $250,000 in AWS credits to
eight grand prize winners from three award categories: Best
Practices, Partners in Innovation, and Dream Big, a new category
that will recognize the best ideas for a cloud innovation, and
award credits for its implementation. To learn more about the City
on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/.
Entries must be received no later than August 21, 2015, and will
be judged based on one or more criteria that may include the impact
of the solution, likelihood of long-term success, implementation of
AWS services, and the potential to help other local governments
solve similar challenges. City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge
finalists will be announced in September 2015, and the winners will
be announced on October 7, 2015, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.
“All around the world, local and regional governments are using
the AWS Cloud to innovate and meet their mission,” said Teresa
Carlson, Vice President Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “The winners
of last year’s City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge included local
governments forecasting crime using machine learning, enhancing air
traveler experience with Internet of Things data, and making data
more accessible to developers and researchers – all made possible
by the AWS Cloud. We’re looking forward to this year’s City on a
Cloud Innovation Challenge and seeing how local governments are
using the cloud in transformative ways.”
“Through our use of the AWS Cloud, we were able to offer
enhanced and more transparent services to our residents, while
gaining the agility, cost savings, and scalability offered by the
cloud,” said Mike Wynne, GIS Business Analyst, City and County of
San Francisco. “We were thrilled to be selected as a 2014 City on a
Cloud Innovation Challenge winner. We started with this website and
continue to use the cloud for more and more of our workloads.”
“With the cloud, we make widely available real-time information
about New York City subways, busses, and Citi Bike. The
public uses our iRideNYC Web App on any device, anytime,
anywhere," said Cordell Schachter, Chief Technology Officer,
New York City Department of Transportation and 2014 City on a Cloud
winner. “Our robust cloud-based geographic information system
enables rapid app deployments. Our newest Web App, Vision Zero
View, visualizes safety information about our 6,000 miles of
road to help us eliminate traffic fatalities and serious
injuries."
“With the AWS Cloud, the City of Asheville, NC was able to build
a true, cloud-based disaster recovery system that can keep city
operations up and running in the event of power outages,
earthquakes, and major weather events,” said Jonathan Feldman,
Chief Information Officer, Asheville, North Carolina. “Being
selected as a 2014 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge winner
helped us accelerate our cloud adoption. We continue to use the
cloud for rapid product innovation; a great example is our
recent SimpliCity application, which saves citizens time
and reduces frustration when looking for city information.”
All City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge entries must include
AWS cloud computing services – either implemented or proposed,
depending on the category. Entries will be reviewed and considered
by a panel of some or all of the following AWS representatives and
international experts:
- Scott Case, Co-founder and CEO, Main
Street Genome
- Ed DeSeve, Former Special Advisor to
the President for Recovery Implementation
- Bert Jarreau, Chief Innovation Officer,
National Association of Counties
- Bill McCluggage, former CIO, the Irish
Government
- Dr. Glenn Ricart, Founder and CTO of US
Ignite and member of Internet Hall of Fame
- Cordell Schachter, CTO, New York City
Department of Transportation*
- Suresh Thalluri, CTO, Str LLC*
- Dr. Mark Thompson, Strategy Director,
Methods Group, and Senior Lecturer in Information Systems,
Cambridge Judge Business School, UK
- Mike Wynne, GIS Business Analyst, City
and County of San Francisco*
- Jonathan Feldman, CIO, North
Carolina*
- Jim Pizzuto, Professor, Dept. of
Geological Sciences, University of Delaware
*2014 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge Winner
“We’re seeing a radical shift in the way governments operate
driven by the unparalleled rate of change of technology, social
media, smart phones and the introduction of disruptive technologies
like cloud computing,” said Bill McCluggage, former Chief
Information Officer of the Irish Government. “The City on a Cloud
Innovation Challenge brings together innovative minds from
governments and developers across the globe to share best
practices, new solutions and ideas that can improve any city and
society, no matter the size.”
To see how local and regional AWS customers around the world are
using the AWS Cloud, visit the interactive “City on a Cloud
Innovation Map” at
http://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/map/.
For a complete description of the official rules, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/rules/.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully
featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised
of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics,
application, and deployment services from data center locations in
the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and
Singapore. More than a million customers, including fast-growing
startups, large enterprises, and government agencies across 190
countries, rely on AWS services to innovate quickly, lower IT costs
and scale applications globally. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
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company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
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