Huawei noted that video-surveillance systems can be used for traffic management, long-distance education and local security.

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Although the region as a whole lags regulatory development, it will soon become priority subject matter for all local asset-management companies.

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And we also need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -- places where folks can learn the skills that local business are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.

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At the local level, water-user associations responsible for the management and maintenance of irrigation canals have been set up with foreign help.

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As part of the CRI, the CDC and state public health personnel assess local emergency-management plans, protocols and capabilities for 72 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four non-MSA large cities.

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So far, there have been fewer sales to foreigners than to local wheeler-dealers who arrange management buy-outs for their friends at big discounts.

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"There is an urgent need across the board for governments to invest in pre-disaster management, including investment in local capacity such as public education, " he says.

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These platforms are also increasingly capable of providing ancillary services to the local utility such as spinning reserve, load-following regulation, and intermittency management for wind and solar energy.

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