In the public and humanitarian domain—as in business and commerce—it is the fabric of data, security, apps, and, increasingly, artificial intelligence that makes possible much of what society takes for granted. An ecosystem of interwoven technologies, often invisible to the end recipient of any service, orchestrate the vast, historically unthinkable systems through which students are educated, police are assigned to duty, the hungry are fed, and the most vulnerable migrants are transported from conflict, housed, and treated for their injuries.

We’ll make the concepts of Ecosystem-Oriented Architecture (EOA) and mapping your cloud ecosystem real in context of Public Sector organizations. To do so, we spend some time speaking less about technology and begin describing workloads that incorporate functions and scenarios upon which a typical agency might rely on its cloud ecosystem to perform.