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Effective trade networks and access to livestock markets would enable them to increase sales substantially.
Piped water and sanitation networks are expensive.
Moreover, the country’s continuing high levels of fixed-asset investment make sense – building roads, water pipes, metro systems, telecommunication networks, and electronics factories is what a vast and rapidly modernizing country must do.
Other attempts to establish networks of swap lines and credits, such as the Chiang Mai Initiative, which was negotiated in the wake of the Asian crisis, have been bedeviled by the same problem.
It could also bring products from other African countries into South Africa’s strong supply chains and trade networks, benefiting the entire region.
Under political pressure, the major companies have begun to police their networks more carefully and take down obvious fakes, including those propagated by botnets.
The informal sector is mostly a consequence of the fact that people are disconnected from modern production networks – an inefficiency that will not be resolved simply by reducing the cost of registering a business or forcing small firms to pay taxes.
The PRI’s political strategy was essentially the “golden boy” model: handsome face, cartloads of money, and the support of the television networks and Mexico’s dinosaur elite, which yearned for a return to power.
Elections across Europe and in the US have repeatedly demonstrated that automated social networks can be exploited to undermine democracy.
The extremists propagating this violence have networks of outreach to young people and know the power of education, whether formal or informal.
The information and communications revolution has spawned the idea of the “smart city,” which places the relevant technologies at the heart of systems that collect and respond to information: smart power grids, smart transport networks (potentially including self-driving vehicles), and smart buildings and zoning.
Metropolitan governance is therefore crucial, as smart cities require networks that operate at the metropolitan scale.
Individually, each of these technologies has the potential to transform established products, services, and associated support networks.
For example, at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, we are engineering socially responsible communication networks and urban governance systems, while the FuturICT initiative, an international network of researchers, is applying a multidisciplinary approach to technology development.
Having received carte blanche from Qatar’s political leadership to support the Arab revolutions, Al Jazeera became fully engaged in live coverage of events in Tunisia, and then in Egypt, by relying on social-media networks away from the eyes of local security officials.
The irrelevance of traditional culture explains the growing number of converts in all the recently discovered radical networks.
A house is an object; a habitat is a node in a multiplicity of overlapping networks – physical (power, water and sanitation, roads), economic (urban transport, labor markets, distribution and retail, entertainment) and social (education, health, security, family, friends).
The ability to connect to all of these networks makes a habitat valuable.
As a result, developers look for the cheapest land, which is obviously the least connected to the networks that would make it more valuable.
And, once again, these new urban developments have few of the networks that would make them a habitat.
They are bound to choose older homes in established neighborhoods that have already been connected to the many networks that make them a habitat.
China’s “influence operations,” they argue, include cultivating ties with Western politicians, establishing Confucius Institutes around the world to promote Chinese language and culture, expanding the global reach of China’s official propaganda networks, and donations to and exchange programs with academic institutions.
In the meantime, Europe’s transport networks are under stress, as are shelters, border crossings, and registration centers.
Thus, given the pervasiveness of mobile telephony and recent technological advances in mobile networks, rolling out mobile broadband seems a cost-effective solution.
In new cities across the country, urban plans already take into account such concerns, with riparian greenways and urban nature reserves complementing infrastructure projects that have environmental benefits (for example, extensive mass-transit networks).
The country’s urban areas often lack adequate regional transport networks, for example.
Since taking office in August 2009, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has embraced this role, arguing tirelessly that the Alliance’s key security threats stem from global challenges: failed states in developing regions, international cyber-crime, terrorist networks, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, maritime piracy, energy-supply disruptions, and climate change.
Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation, describes 2015 as the year in which millions of refugees “were organized by social media (specifically through secret Facebook groups) and in which scores of citizens organized themselves through peer-to-peer networks to assist them.”
The stark truth is that without strong political will and clear arguments, any future French president is unlikely to curb the strength of lobby groups and old networks that have dominated France’s relationship with Africa.
In other words, the US will have to use its soft power to create networks and institutions that will allow it to cooperate with China, India, Japan, Europe, and others to deal with transnational problems – for example, monetary stability, climate change, terrorism, and cyber-crime – that no country can solve unilaterally.
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