And Venezuela, that used to have the highest quality infrastructure of communication of Latin America, has now one that is crumbling down.

NPR: Venezuela Copes with Crumbling Infrastructure

Best of all, thanks to the enormous investment the U.S. Navy and its counterparts have made in the ships, sensors, communication gear, and other infrastructure needed for sea based missile defenses, the costs of putting such a capability in place are a fraction of those associated with other alternatives.

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Once the infrastructure has moved to satellite communication, everything else falls into place much more naturally.

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Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as a hub for interaction with all customers and stakeholders, replete with media, public and private communities for ideation, customer advocacy, support, employee communication, vendor collaboration, training, media engagement and social media at the very infrastructure.

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But the truth is that the informational infrastructure that we all depend on every day is not composed of interoperable and transparent communication platforms but of hybrid content marketing services with structural conflicts of interest.

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We have made significant achievements in the last fifty years in food production, health sector, higher education, media and mass communication, industrial infrastructure, information technology, science and technology and defence.

BBC: Abdul Kalam urges drive against poverty

For more than a decade, the office has encouraged the development and implementation of effective regional research policies, as well as infrastructure development and collaborative networks for qualitative science communication.

UNESCO: Ministers of South East Europe to speak with one voice to further regional science agenda | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.

ENGADGET: Kaspersky Labs preps its own OS to guard vital industry against cyberwarfare