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

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Alteia developed a microservices architecture utilizing Amazon EKS , a managed Kubernetes cluster solution.

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Kingston Puts a Secure Data Cloud in Your Pocket

FedTech Magazine

In 2019 the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3, the first update to FIPS 140 since the 140-2 update in 2002 Federal agencies are transitioning from the military-grade security of FIPS 140-2 to the new FIPS 140-3 standard.

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Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale

Google Public Sector

These e-learning platforms, also known as Learning Management Systems (or LMS’s), already played an important role in educational institutions. Modernizing Moodle with Google Cloud Introduced in 2002, Moodle is one of the most used e-learning platforms in the world. This implementation of Moodle is 100% cloud-native.

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the beginning of my Main Street days (2002) districts like Dupont Circle pushed for being included. Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it "). So I was missing the point.

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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. NetCDF files contain metadata that supports more efficient data indexing and retrieval, including opening files remotely and virtually browsing their structure without loading everything into memory.

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

Iron Sharpens Iron

Episode Transcript Here: [link] Majeedah Rashid is Chief Operating Officer of Nicetown Community Development Corporation, which serves Nicetown and surrounding communities through the development and repair of affordable homes, commercial corridor revitalization, open space management, supportive services, and community outreach and engagement.

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

Iron Sharpens Iron

Majeedah Rashid is Chief Operating Officer of Nicetown Community Development Corporation, which serves Nicetown and surrounding communities through the development and repair of affordable homes, commercial corridor revitalization, open space management, supportive services, and community outreach and engagement.