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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development. Since 2002, the World Bank has constructed or rehabilitated more than 260,000 kilometers of roads, lending more for roads than for education, health, and social services combined. A road in rural Peru.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Kingston Puts a Secure Data Cloud in Your Pocket

FedTech Magazine

Kingston Technology develops hardware-encrypted USB drives that assist federal agencies in addressing real-world data security issues with a focus on mobile uses.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

As of 2002, NetCDF4 uses the Hierarchical Data Format version 5 (HDF5) as a backend, improving the speed of parallel I/O on chunks. Deploy the infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). NetCDF data can be stored as chunks within a file, enabling parallel reads and writes on different chunks.

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Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale

Google Public Sector

Modernizing Moodle with Google Cloud Introduced in 2002, Moodle is one of the most used e-learning platforms in the world. To ensure users can rely on Moodle to continue delivering connected experiences, Google Cloud's Customer Engineers have developed an open-source, cloud-native approach for hosting Moodle.

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Passing the Baton: Creative Approaches to the Future of Community Organizing with Majeedah Rashid

Iron Sharpens Iron

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. She joined Nicetown CDC in 2002 while studying community economic development from a resident-driven perspective at Southern New Hampshire University’s CED Master’s Program.

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Passing the Baton: Creative Approaches to the Future of Community Organizing with Majeedah Rashid

Iron Sharpens Iron

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. She joined Nicetown CDC in 2002 while studying community economic development from a resident-driven perspective at Southern New Hampshire University’s CED Master’s Program.