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What happens when one is successful, year-over-year, in increasing end user bandwidth? One gets a core network capacity challenge. Commissioner Brian Thompson lays out a vision for not only beefing up national core network capacity, but also lowering the barrier to entry for new service providers.
In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s increasingly difficult to determine where service quality issue or trouble originates. Commissioner Nigel Bayliff reflects on his 30 years in the telecommu ...
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The digital infrastructure used by healthcare is becoming increasingly critical in determining quality, costs, and rate of breakthroughs. Commissioner Marsali Hancock describes the current state o ...
Global information infrastructure advances are made not only in the context of the hard limitations of physics, but also in the context of complex political agendas. Commissioner Seng elevates the ...
Commissioner Brian Thompson sounds the alarm on what's needed to bridge the digital divide in under-served areas, and details how this will largely depend on terrestrial services. The post What Cr ...
Some local communities are effectively learning how to ride the technology wave. In this article Commissioner Biju Nair shares his insights gleaned from creating technology jobs outside of the us ...
Commissioner Bill Huang explains how tomorrow's robots, instead of carrying their own “brains,” will share a single, remote one. The post Robots with their Heads in the Clouds appeared first on GI ...
Hunger is the most important problem the world consistently faces on a day-to-day basis. Yet while the Internet continues to expand its role in connecting our planet, it has still fallen short of ...
Broadband access is central to the economic development of communities around the world. With a renewed focus on this priority in the U.S., Commissioner Bob Nichols places his message on the dime ...
Oceans make up most of our world, are vital to mankind's survival and are by all accounts an underutilized resource. With a frank assessment of the needs and opportunities, Commissioner Gary Gysin appeals to stakeholders around the world in this call to action to build out the oceans' information infrastructure, starting now!
The Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) is an independent, non-governmental initiative involving information and communications related industry leaders from developing, as well as industrialized, countries. The GIIC was initiated from G7 and World Bank concerns in the mid-1990s regarding the economic impact of a digital divide.
The world has a great challenge on its hands: feeding a growing population with limited farmlands. Global Information Infrastructure Commissioner Howard Janzen urges forethought and action to network farms with advanced technologies that will increase yields.