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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.
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.