With the help of Future Lagos – a network fostering citizen engagement – we identified locations where we could pin our playable "acupuncture needles": public spaces where communities intersected, such as bus stops and the bustling sprawl of Balogun market.
Colin Tweedy, the chief executive of Arts & Business, a network fostering relationships between the arts and commerce, said: "For now there is an eerie silence, but it is very likely that 2010 and 2011 will see a substantial drop in corporate sponsorship.
OpenFlow, initially launched as a technology-enabling network and application experimentation in a campus network, has a disruptive potential in designing a flexible network, fostering innovation, reducing complexity and delivering the right economics.
"You need to get yourself to the point where you can write that proposal and... seriously demonstrate that if it got funded, you'd be able to complete it," says Chris Armbruster, a social scientist in Berlin, who runs a network fostering postdoctoral independence, the Research Network 1989.
Changes in the dosage of certain GRKs in the tumor stroma can alter tumor angiogenesis and the homing of immune cells, thus putting forward these kinases as potentially relevant modulators of the carcinoma-fibroblast-endothelial-immune cell network fostering tumor development and dissemination.
Contrary to the hypothesis derived from other studies that deeper integration into emigrant networks fosters transnational engagement, our survey only finds an effect on non-electoral engagement, but not on electoral engagement.
Japanese-led production networks fostered the industrialisation of East and South-East Asia.
Social networks foster change processes and promote innovation diffusion.
P2P networks foster high scalability and fault tolerance, and reduce collaboration cost through ad hoc communication process.
