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US Vice President Joseph Biden has put counterattacks against Russian computer
networks
on the table, but that could trigger an escalation, while ceding the moral high ground.
Given the reach of today’s mass media and social networks, only a few people must be targeted to cow the rest of society into conforming to the leader’s vision.
And building a low-carbon economy will entail huge investments in power capacity and transmission, energy-efficient buildings, mass-transit systems, and electrical charging
networks.
Today, Spain has some of Europe’s best infrastructure, including high-speed trains, high-tech airports, fast highways, and top-notch green-energy
networks.
The information carried on the new
networks
spans public health, medical care, education, banking, commerce, and entertainment, in addition to communications among family and friends.
Moreover, India’s new rural employment guarantee scheme, just two years old, is not only employing millions of the poorest through public financing, but also is bringing tens of millions of them into the formal banking system, building on India’s digital
networks.
Similarly, world-leading software firms are bringing information technology jobs, including business process outsourcing, right into the villages through digital
networks.
Throughout the world, schools at all levels will go global, joining together in worldwide digital education
networks.
But digital information technologies, if deployed cooperatively and globally, will be our most important new tools, because they will enable us to join together globally in markets, social networks, and cooperative efforts to solve our common problems.
Unlike the US, which has been engineering a strategic “pivot” from one geographic region to another, China is rebalancing from “politics among nations” to “politics among networks,” focusing on “connectivity” rather than “control.”
Similarly, Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury, who created Maktoob (now owned by Yahoo), were able to combine the comparative advantage of Jordan’s creative talent and low costs with the quality and convenience of Dubai’s infrastructure and business
networks.
The caliber of Finland’s infrastructure, workforce, and domestic
networks
overrode the concerns of Rovio’s Finnish founders about their country’s high costs and inconvenient location, so they decided to start their new business at home.
Developing countries must upgrade their educational systems and technical training, improve their business environment, and enhance their logistics and transport
networks
in order to make fuller use of new technologies, goes the oft-heard refrain.
This means that we should view the economy and society not as rigid hierarchies or mechanical markets, but as
networks
or webs of life, in which contracts, formal and informal, fulfilled or violated, are the essence of human activity.
That means training health workers; establishing community-level support networks, such as mother-to-mother groups; investing in behavioral-change campaigns; and creating a culture in which breastfeeding is welcome and encouraged.
A well-run military can be a source of attraction, and military cooperation and training programs can establish transnational
networks
that enhance a country’s soft power.
The countries of North Africa also need energy – particularly more electricity and new
networks
to support urban and industrial development.
Today, as part of our continuing drive to improve the security of our members’ networks, Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, hosts a NATO cyber-defense center of excellence.
Instead, the metaphor for today’s globalized world is that of the World Wide Web, in which we increasingly function through multiple
networks.
Sometimes those
networks
overlap, with common participants, and sometimes they are distinct; they all serve our interests in different ways and for different purposes.
But a more intangible factor is no less important: many of the
networks
on which farmers have traditionally depended to cope with these disasters have been lost or degraded.
In other words, it is as much about reimagining social
networks
as it is about deciding what goes into the ground.
To mitigate risk, people in rural areas have always relied on their personal
networks
for information to help them weather crises, improve productivity, and limit crop losses.
Today, though, farmers’ personal
networks
are weakening.
But that is slowly changing, especially as more people in emerging economies connect to mobile networks, and apps designed to collect and share agricultural information become increasingly accessible.
With neighbors on the move, and climate change a growing concern, traditional information
networks
are no longer sufficient.
Farmers’ personal
networks
are now global and online.
Both Minitel and the Internet were predicated on the creation of digital information
networks.
Pervasive digital
networks
are entering physical space, giving rise to the “Internet of Everything” – the networked lifeblood of the “smart city.”
The corruption
networks
surrounding the old Soviet pipeline system carrying gas from Siberia to Western Europe have obviously impeded Ukraine’s political development.
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