Telecommunications
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Potential for public-private partnerships exist in energy and
telecommunications
projects, in wells and irrigation, in the construction sector, in infrastructure such as roads, airports, and harbors, and in processing plants for agro industries, meat, fruit, and vegetables.
From venture capital to telecommunications, from the construction industry to teachers’ unions, there is plenty of demand for evidence that celebrates the benefits of these industries and justifies (implicitly or explicitly) government subsidies to them.
But it was also the consequence of scandalous misconduct at India’s
telecommunications
ministry where some $30 billion may have been siphoned off through corrupt practices, gross mismanagement of the Commonwealth games, and many other instances of governmental corruption.
In an open letter to the US president in September 2007, American professionals in cyber defense warned that “the critical infrastructure of the United States, including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense, and the Internet, is highly vulnerable to cyber attack.
To benefit from Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) an economy requires, in addition to sophisticated
telecommunications
infrastructure, fundamental advances in basic literacy and secondary technical education.
To assure positive outcomes from ICT investment, policymakers should focus on integrated development,
telecommunications
infrastructure, and education as the foundation for gradual technology transfer.
Although many of the treaty’s details are highly technical, involving the routing of telecommunications, various governments have submitted proposals to amend the treaty that include provisions aimed at facilitating government censorship of the Internet.
The
telecommunications
giant Ericsson and the pop singer Madonna are teaming up to get kids into school and connected worldwide through wireless broadband.
The first is now over; the second--the result of overinvestment in high technology and telecommunications, the sectors that were so important in the boom of the late 90s--may last considerably longer.
Using data collected online or through
telecommunications
networks – the wireless providers Orange and Ericsson, for example, have recently made some data available to researchers – it is now possible to address, in a scientific way, fundamental questions about human sociability.
A recent paper (of which one of us, Carlo Ratti, is a co-author) uses anonymized data from
telecommunications
networks across Europe to explore how human networks change with city size.
And in Mexico, structural reforms to increase competition in the
telecommunications
and electricity sectors, alongside other policies, have curbed inflation and boosted resilience to external shocks, and are expected to help return the country to a primary budget surplus.
The recent boom in Africa’s
telecommunications
sector – which has revolutionized entire industries, not to mention people’s lifestyles – demonstrates just how effective such an approach can be.
The world has hundreds of treaties, institutions, and regimes for governing interstate behavior involving telecommunications, civil aviation, ocean dumping, trade, and even the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The dynamic U.S. economy owes its great advantage to a tremendous capacity to innovate – whether in information technologies such as computer hardware and software, or biotechnology such as new medicines and crop varieties, or new
telecommunications
technologies such as advanced fiber optics and earth satellites.
Public resources, like land, minerals, and hydrocarbons, and the
telecommunications
spectrum, have shot up in value, and in the scramble to control them, businessmen seek shortcuts.
Diversification requires investment in the future, in the form of education and well-developed infrastructure, including telecommunications, power, roads, rail, and water.
Consider deregulation of
telecommunications
and airlines, which has ushered in competition from low-cost carriers of data and people.
While both the foreign and local press refer generally to “reforms,” or lump together education, labor, financial, fiscal, energy, telecommunications, and political reforms, there are significant differences among them.
The changes in how teachers are evaluated and their labor rights (wrongly described as an education reform), together with changes to tax and
telecommunications
legislation, belong to the first category; energy and political reforms belong to the second.
For example, he has already announced measures to promote foreign direct investment in insurance, defense, and telecommunications, including higher infrastructure spending and new tax incentives for savings and investment.
Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.
Another $50 billion is needed in
telecommunications
infrastructure if Myanmar is to make full use of digital technology to leapfrog stages of development – for example, by using mobile banking or e-commerce to avoid the cost of building physical banks and shops, and to extend health and education services to even the remotest villages.
The accelerator explanation of the shortfall in business investment in the US is consistent with evidence that, where projected demand growth has been relatively strong – for example, in cable, telecommunications, digital platforms, social networking, and, until recently, energy – investment growth has also been relatively strong.
Countries have undoubtedly become more economically and socially interdependent, owing to trade, travel, and telecommunications, not to mention multinational corporate structures and international financial flows.
They also need regulatory agencies in sectors such as
telecommunications
and energy that can pursue policies in accordance with broad goals established by the political process, but with appointees selected according to nonpartisan criteria who then exercise their authority in a way that fosters competition open to all.
But there will also be strong growth in consumer goods ($370 billion), hospitality and recreation ($260 billion), health care ($175 billion), financial services ($85 billion), and
telecommunications
($65 billion).
Here, the largest sectors will be agriculture and agricultural processing ($915 billion), manufacturing ($666 billion), and construction, utilities, and transportation ($784 billion), followed by wholesale and retail ($665 billion), resources ($357 billion), banking and insurance ($249 billion), and
telecommunications
and ICT ($79.5 billion).
China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
British FDI has flowed largely to the
telecommunications
and financial services sectors, but development aid and infrastructure projects have also been a focus.
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