This paper describes an example of this approach, a collaborative process used to develop a suite of posters which summarise the potential impacts of volcanic ash and preparedness and mitigation strategies for different sectors of critical infrastructure.
The government's recent drive to boost private sector funding of infrastructure projects is also a timely catalyst to help deliver telehealth systems in the UK.
So, that's what this new framework does for 16 sectors of critical-infrastructure providers — the sizable IT and communications companies, utilities, banks and the like.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by the public sector on infrastructure and facilities.
More than any other sector of the infrastructure, it is the electrical grid that fills officials with hope.
The next day, external commercial borrowing rules were liberalised to include the mining, exploration and refining sectors in the definition of infrastructure.
Privatization of infrastructure sectors in Brazil in the 1990s enabled Andrade Gutierrez to expand into public infrastructure concessions and telecommunications.
Presented fragility functions only consider discrete tephra fall events and not prolonged, reoccurring or remobilised tephra falls, nor clean-up and restoration of infrastructure sectors following tephra fall.
Matthias Kroll, economist, World Future Council, Hamburg, Germany We need the private sector in many areas of infrastructure and to promote economic development.
However, the removal of the public-sector monopoly on key aspects of infrastructure, including the ports, is encouraging new private-sector investment, and the redevelopment of the ports is expected to be finished by 1997.
