Category: Critical Infrastructure

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Infrastructure and Disease

The crisis created by the cyclone that recently slammed the Myanmar coast highlights once again the importance of certain critical infrastructures. In my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I continually stress the importance of

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Development and Infrastructure

In my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I have stressed the importance of infrastructure in critical areas such as transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, and finance. China, who as everyone knows is frantically building its own

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The Limits of Leapfrogging

In a recent post about Green Development, I noted that The Economist, like many others, recommends helping emerging market countries leapfrog older technologies. “Everyone will gain,” the magazine claims, “if poor countries

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Technology and Developing Countries

Since the computing age began in earnest starting in the mid-1980s, there has been talk about a digital divide between developed and developing countries. In recent years, pundits have been surprised how

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Green Development

There has been an empirical argument around for years that developing countries are little concerned with the environment until they reach a certain level of per capita GDP (somewhere, as I recall,

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The Search for Clean Coal

Coal is still the fuel of choice to generate electrical power for many nations; including some of its greatest polluters like the U.S., China and India. One of the reasons is that

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Fertilizing to End Famine

One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that

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Corporate Environmental Conscience?

The principal reason that the Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Protocol aimed at dealing with global warming was the negative economic impact he believed it would have. He was supported by businesses

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