That kind of basic communications strategy is simply good business, especially at such a decisive time in the history of an essential industry.

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Since I had just finished building a technology company, I started to think about what else besides basic communications could be done with all these cell phones.

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According to Fuller, the Connected Urban Development pilots helped to show how cities can accelerate their transition to sustainability, reduce CO2 emissions, increase energy efficiency, and decrease waste, all by harnessing the basic information and communications technology available in wireless networks.

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When making loans to developing countries, the various aid institutions stress good agricultural practices, along with basic sanitation, infrastructure and communications.

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If we are going to tackle health care for millions of people across Africa we must first tackle the most basic elements of any health system: logistics, maintenance, local skills and communications.

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So, with no experience or training as a programmer, he taught himself BASIC and wrote PC-Talk, which was the first (and for a long time the best) communications program for the PC.

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