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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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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

One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking. Sure there is bicycle parking, but most of it isn't secure. Lack of secure parking is a real problem.

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Biking to Work Isn't Gaining Any Ground in the US | Bloomberg Opinion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It doesn't need to take 60 years. But it does need to be purposive. Right now, few cities are doing much that is substantive to directly assist people in transitioning to biking. With one exception. Vouchers and tax credits to buy electric bikes.

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Safety, Security and International Affairs – recognizing a federal employee or team in fields such as counterterrorism, civil rights, defense and military affairs, cybersecurity and more. Emerging Leaders – recognizing a federal employee under the age of 35 who made an important contribution to the public good.

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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 provides the security and observability of their platform using Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and logging.

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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. Security embedded. By revising and optimizing these environments, we can offer a solid, supportive infrastructure that improves the experience for students and teachers alike.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. NATO Science for Peace and Security, Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics Vol. References Alexander, D.E. Natural Disasters. UNDRR 2019.

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