Cities in emerging economies are building the bulk of their infrastructures in the next two or three decades.
Infrastructures in the areas where they live are already overwhelmed, and served by aid agencies like mine that are underfunded and overstretched.
Tacoma's is one of the largest publicly owned telecommunications infrastructures in the nation, prompting the city to market itself with the theme "America's No. 1 Wired City".
Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said the recent series of attacks against Israelis had necessitated "deep and thorough" action "against the terror infrastructures in the Palestinian cities in order to foil attacks".
The stated objective of the offensive is to hunt down those who dispatch the bombers and gunmen -- to "smash their infrastructures," in the words of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
In particular this year we're increasing the focus on how internet technologies can be used to tackle poverty, enable access to education and establish effective political and economic infrastructures in the developing world.
The flyers said that the military intends to target "terrorists and terrorist infrastructures in the area east of Al-Atatra and Al-Salatin St, and in the area west of and north of Ma'bscar Jabalyia".
"Flooding is a natural phenomenon; it becomes a catastrophe because we humans have put ourselves and our infrastructures in the wrong place, so we have to reconquer the major floodplains and get as much vegetation in there as possible," Maire suggests.
Brazil "has one of the most vulnerable and unprotected internet infrastructures in the world", according to a recent paper by IPEA, a government-linked think-tank.Officials are now talking about laying fibre-optic cables to Latin American countries and Europe so that Brazil's international online traffic bypasses the United States.
Brazil "has one of the most vulnerable and unprotected internet infrastructures in the world", according to a recent paper by IPEA, a government-linked think-tank.Officials are now talking about laying fibre-optic cables to connect directly to Latin America and Europe so that Brazil's international online traffic bypasses the United States.
Billions of people will need new homes, roads, and infrastructures in the next 50 years.
