Some technologies, certainly those involving the computer and other ways of managing information, do indeed cross over, and give great hopes of spurring technological capacity in the poorest countries.

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It underscored the need to have in place the technological and industrial capacity by which fixes could be implemented.

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This technological advancement has helped Futong increase its production capacity of optic fiber preforms to 600 tons a year.

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But then private operators, anticipating a surging demand for capacity thanks to the growing volume of internet traffic and benefiting from technological advances that sharply reduced the costs, challenged this set-up with an explosive period of investment in new cable routes.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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The report also includes a number of successful case studies and recommendations on the options for educators and students to use existing technological solutions in classrooms, and on how UNESCO ICT Competences Framework for Teachers could be applied for the capacity-building of teachers on accessibility related issues.

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