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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. By effectively computing and analyzing road networks, governments can prioritize maintenance operations, optimize spending, and enhance their roads.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. Peggy Whitson, Director of Human Space Flight, Astronaut, Axiom Space.

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Current Affairs Magazine: US Transit is Abysmal and Unacceptable

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Later, as private sector operations went bankrupt, cities like Chicago and Detroit stepped in and bought the systems, to be able to maintain service. E.g., Salt Lake City is small and has LR because of the 2002 Olympics. In the 1890s, Boston was involved in subway planning, but still expected the private sector to carry it out.

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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. This gets deployed into an enterprise version of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), along with underlying services to support Moodle's operational and specialized tasks.

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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.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. I suggested a system for secure bicycle parking operating at the metropolitan scale a few years ago, based in part on the Parkiteer model in Melbourne. Sure there is bicycle parking, but most of it isn't secure.