As we all know, the openness that makes the Internet a force for unprecedented progress can also enable wrongdoing on a vast scale.

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So again, I want to thank my colleagues for making this unprecedented gathering a day of unprecedented progress in confronting one of the greatest threats to our global security.

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"Across Sub Saharan Africa, there is a general awareness that the last decade has witnessed unprecedented progress in the development of education, " says Zulmira Rodrigues, Education Coordinator for Africa in UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar.

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The areas that have been pointed out are among those where the unprecedented pace of this progress looks more and more challenging in ethical, political and juridical perspective.

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All of that risk-laden industrial progress in the early 20th century led to unprecedented affluence for those not killed, maimed or sickened.

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What is true for the United States and Europe also holds true for countries such as Mexico: Technological progress in the mobile telephony market has led to unprecedented access to information and services, reduction in consumer cost and has lifted millions of people of people out of poverty, bridging the digital divide.

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