Four websites most consistently account for links between countries: YouTube, Wikipedia, the BBC and, a distant fourth, Global Voices Online.

ECONOMIST: E-communication and society

Back in 2009, Mike Burrichter, a principal of CBRE Global Investors, was one of the few optimistic voices who said it still made sense to buy partially vacant buildings and add value by leasing them up.

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Yet, the views and voices of the poor are often sidelined at global summits dominated by the big and the rich players.

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As a crossroads in the interconnected global economy, Dubai is a natural venue to bring together the diversity of voices and views at the WCIT.

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It is perfectly true, as the voices of calm have been urging, that China is not yet capable of really global power: its ambitions, between now and 2030, will be confined to its own region of the world.

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