Just five years later, in 2007, that gap has nearly doubled, and people in richer countries have 15 times more information carrying capacity.
"If nanotechnology maintains its current pace of development, it will give birth to a computer that has the information processing capacity equivalent to every human brain combined by 2060, " he was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.
Side Events are a vital component of the sessions, as they provide opportunities for information dissemination, capacity building and policy discussions.
Side Events are a vital component of the sessions, as they provide opportunities for information dissemination, capacity building, policy discussions and legitimizing global governance.
Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.
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These numbers may sound large, but they are still dwarfed by the information processing and storage capacity of nature.
Creation and implementation of some permanent instruments for raising and managing financial resources, communication and information tools, capacity building and training activities, and project planning and monitoring.
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Whether Chinese strategists have something useful to contribute analytically by looking through the lens of Sun Tzu or whether they have deluded themselves into accepting the capacity of information power to lift the fog of war remains to be seen.
Despite the spread of computers and mobile phones, the capacity to process information is becoming more unequal.
In addition to these information gaps, the regulators capacity to process these data sets was hindered by their excessive file size and inconsistent formats.
We welcomed deepening ASEAN-U.S. cooperation on maritime issues, through promotion of capacity building, information sharing, and technology cooperation across a variety of maritime fora.
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The purpose of the UNESCO Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, education, training, capacity building, information and documentation in the field of African peace and conflict studies.
The documents recognize the importance of the role libraries play in building appropriate information infrastructure, in ensuring access to information and knowledge, in capacity building and in preserving cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content.
And the problem is, is that if we engage in this kind of thing, it leads to those areas that unwittingly could have the divulging of information that would limit our capacity to do this kind of operation in the future.
Improving interagency coordination and information sharing, and strengthening agency capacity and accountability will help ensure the effective implementation of these and other Government efforts to promote gender equality and advance the status of women and girls globally.
Education, ideas, information - they give us the capacity to lift people out of poverty and to lift people out of the ignorance that makes them fight and kill each other, and to give us an understanding about how to solve the environmental problems of the world.
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What is also needed is capacity of journalists and free information access to all.
Academia, government, and technology are all aided by our relatively new capacity to spread and receive information at dazzling speeds from almost anywhere.
But they point to a larger strategic failure that has crippled Israel's capacity to contend with the information war being waged against it.
Under a memorandum of understanding, CBP provides information with NICB in a law enforcement capacity involving investigations of active cases of vehicle fraud and theft.
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It is the first in a series of capacity development activities relating to information literacy and is being held in the University of the West Indies Main Library.
Conducted over several months, including all relevant sectors and accompanied by a number of open forums focused on FOI, the research process will result in a publication contributing to advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building on freedom of information.
By ensuring equitable access to information and services, the IOC increases the capacity of all countries to address marine issues.
In particular, the predictions that were concerned with basic measurements of the capacity and price-performance of information technologies were very accurate.
Though DNA storage is still quite expensive, the researchers say this method could eventually provide a viable option for archiving information, especially considering DNA's high capacity and long life span.
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Dr. Church said he first considered encoding the novel "Moby Dick, " but then chose to use his own manuscript because its combination of words, pictures and JavaScript code would better showcase DNA's capacity to handle different kinds of information.
And today, I saw and heard a very simple explanation: there is, after the violence of last Wednesday and Thursday, a commitment to organic Egyptian democracy in some top quarters (notably the White House), and a commitment to a rapid technocratic transition in others (notably the Pentagon), and no capacity or mechanism to efficiently share information, forge a consensus across departments, and coordinate a message.
The volume of information in government intelligence files long ago overwhelmed the capacity of humans to understand it.
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The challenges relating to the access to information also concern the lack of training and human capacity building, especially among youth, women, and older people.
With total stored information growth exceeding 50% annual increases, high capacity, low cost storage technologies such as digital magnetic tape will continue to play an important role.
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