We need to do more to support them to avoid the risk of damaging the infrastructure which will provide this legacy.
To limit the impacts, experts say effective adaptation strategies need to be developed in order to minimise the risk to nations' infrastructure, homes and businesses.
It's clear Lagos needs to quickly develop its overburdened infrastructure to accommodate the needs of a rapidly increasing population and provide jobs, education and proper infrastructure or risk significant social upheaval.
Meanwhile, in Tunis, the government charged that Libya's rocket-firing at Tunisia is a violation of its sovereignty and puts citizens and infrastructure at risk, even though Tripoli pledged several times not to fire in the direction of Tunisia, the foreign ministry source told the Tunisian News Agency.
Given that virtually all US telecom equipment is produced in China, in some measure, the Committee's narrow focus addresses the overall issue of risk to US telecom infrastructure so narrowly that it omits from the Committee's inquiry the suppliers of the vast majority of equipment used in the US market.
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Mike Parker, assistant secretary of the Army, told the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel that risk is everywhere and impossible to eliminate entirely.
' It asks for the private owners of critical infrastructure to develop risk assessment plans, and plans to mitigate that risk, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Without adequate staffing and infrastructure, the risk will be that elements of the reform package will be either postponed or adopted in a cursory manner, with no meaningful ability to monitor compliance and enforce against rule-breakers.
Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
There are three primary strategies CIOs should pursue for managing risk associated with access to their IT infrastructure.
Our platform captures the common practices and software infrastructure used for front office and risk analysis.
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The modules also can be redeployed as needed, thus mitigating the risk of a fixed installation by eliminating stranded infrastructure costs.
Insufficient infrastructure spending remains "the biggest risk" to Africa's economic growth, the boss of mobile phone network Bharti Airtel, has said.
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Many people start their own businesses as an alternative to working for someone else and nothing more, with no desire for employees, infrastructure, or the headaches and risk of an actual business.
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This market, which is an early-warning system for global credit defaults, has been growing at a 50% annualized rate without the proper infrastructure to ensure against the potential risk of a nasty and disorderly shock.
Just like a sports team, the infrastructure, brand history and tolerance for risk-taking are important elements in a marketer's success or failure.
The second biggest risk is not making the sufficient investment in our infrastructure, in our systems, so that we are able to take advantage of the growth.
According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the infrastructure company requested the operator's risk team last year to investigate some anomalous activity on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.
As a result, the European standard (GSM) fast became dominant in the mobile industry, enabling manufacturers to produce telecom infrastructure at low cost and reducing the risk for network operators and consumers to buy the new equipment.
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Moreover, a strictly price-based comparison between clean and dirty energy ignores many of the other non-market barriers that must be solved for clean energy to adopted on a meaningful scale, such as regulatory and infrastructure hurdles, issues with intermittency, technology risk, and other barriers.
And to highlight why CIOs today have to focus on strategic thinking and business outcomes or risk being reassigned to the role of director of IT infrastructure, here are several of those insightful points from the McKinsey article along with my comments on each.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): As you know, OPIC provides such assistance as financing and political risk insurance that enables companies and private equity funds to support infrastructure projects and other investments in developing countries.
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That means protecting our critical infrastructure and repairing roads and bridges that put our people at risk.
But, to my earlier point, when we did the analysis behind it, we found no greater fundamental risk, meaning distributions were no more tied to commodity prices than the infrastructure plays.
Vince Cable believes that when interest rates are so low and growth so invisible it is worth taking the risk of borrowing a little more to spend on building houses and other infrastructure.
"Although there are numerous positive signs of progress in Iraq -- violence has fallen to its lowest level since 2003, its economy is growing modestly, oil production recently surpassed that of Iran, and foreign investment is beginning to restore infrastructure decayed by years of war and sanctions -- the risk of acute instability and renewed conflict remains, " Ollivant said.
Organizations that build this kind of infrastructure can implement any kind of information sharing program without creating unreasonable risk to their vital information assets.
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On the flip side, some countries that might seem at risk of a shutdown for political reasons are protected by a more balkanized Internet infrastructure, Cowie argues.
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Officials are of course worried about the potential implications of such penetrations, noting that much of our infrastructure, including nuclear power plants and financial institutions, are at risk.
Too little investment in a competitive infrastructure or an education system that works for our children and we risk falling behind countries that are making these investments right now.
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