The UNEVOC Network serves as a platform for information sharing and bringing TVET stakeholders and specialists together in meetings and workshops as a means to improve TVET in different regions of the world.
McNamara feels the network will serve as a platform for the exchange of open-source components, a way to "process" those raw materials into something that is useful and available to the entire community.
Pure Networks' CEO Tim Dowling, a 14-year Intel veteran, said Network Magic is architected as a platform much like a corporate IT product.
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This network can be seen as a platform for competences and co-operation for the Academics of the UNESCO Member States, in the field of Cultural Tourism.
The Developer Network was originally established as an online platform to help software programmers around the world reach out and get support when they ran into difficult programming challenges.
That Facebook would look to Home, a seemingly mobile-native implementation of the social network, as the framework for its platform going forward is unsurprising -- changes recently made to News Feed were done specifically to adapt it to the smartphone space.
It's partly to take advantage of the network's massive Summer Olympics promotional platform (as well as Sunday Night Football, which is a key player in the network's performance), and partly to avoid the competition.
While it started out as an ad network, it might be better seen today as a so-called demand-side platform, or DSP.
This observation helped Kahumbu grasp that the blog platform could be used as a network tool for conservationists, helping them stay in touch as well as share their research.
But the company wants to diversify away from Facebook, because the number of users it can acquire on the social network is slowing and so as not to be too dependent on one platform.
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HSN, as the Home Shopping Network is now known, is a multi-platform retailer, and its customers can shop via TV, online, and on mobile devices.
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Its platform is network independent, and while a service provider such as Cingular might use it to make content available to its customers, it is Motricity that is managing the content, not Cingular.
Take Instagram, who made it a virtue of being an iOS only platform for as long as possible before allowing Android users in to the network.
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The Android launch means users will now able to connect cross platform between iOS and Android, as well as with friends and family on any network in 100 countries.
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Instead presenting itself as a network with 950 million pairs of eyeballs, the company is now showing advertisers that the platform represents a paradigm shift in their relationship with consumers.
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Using a social network, one of the single most powerful tools since the Internet arrived on the scene, as a platform to narrow an audience to salacious gossip, defeats the purpose of opening up our world to everyone, regardless of socio-economic status or class.
The theory behind the network neutrality principle, which the internet sometimes gets close to, is that a neutral network should be expected to deliver the most to a nation and the world economically, by serving as an innovation platform, and socially, by facilitating the widest variety of interactions between people.
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Facebook are looking for a winner here, because the continued success of Facebook as a platform needs a new champion to keep their marketing story fresh to retain developers on the social network based platform.
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