Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #Connectivity

@investifypk

Pakistan's internet connectivity 📶 is facing some bumps in the road, and it seems like letters of credit 📜 may be partially to blame.

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According to a recent report, the Universal Service Fund (USF) has encountered problems importing telecom machinery📱due to the lack of LCs, and the Senate is taking steps to address the issue.

On a brighter note, the PTA is working on an international internet project 💻 and has assured the Senate that efforts are being made to improve internet accessibility in Balochistan's Gwadar.

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Stephanie Forkel

@StephForkel

@MichelTdS and I wrote a #review on the last decade of #brain #connectivity #research for a special issue in @ScienceMagazine : 'circuits create networks by stringing together many brain regions to orchestrate brain symphony conducted by finely attuned connections.' A 🧵

First things first, the #cover shows that the corpus callosum has different axonal calibres, as shown in a cross-section of the axons. Warmer colours (red-yellow) indicate thicker axons. These finely attuned connections allow for the perfect orchestration of the brain symphony.

There is a growing consensus: functions are an emerging property of the interaction between brain areas. Function-specific brain activity involves the integrative effort of several brain regions. White matter connections support this integration by interconnecting brain regions

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TelcoTitans

@TelcoTitans

Thread | A quick recap of latest #telecom news and #insights, including Telefónica Deutschland- Elastic NV deal, DIV II fund, new Digicel CFO and much more:

O2 Germany picks Elastic for IT transformation
eu1.hubs.ly/H01DVMX0

#5G #Telecommunications #Telefonica #Germany

Safaricom’s long-awaited Ethiopian network begins pilot

telcotitans.com/vodafonewatch/…

#Safaricom #Africa #Ethiopia

Verizon’s John Townsend takes on new role at Digicel

telcotitans.com/vodafonewatch/…

#Caribbean #Management #CEO #Finance #US #SouthAmerica

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technoid

@techstrat_99

#telecommunications #infrastructure ownership is something we're going to have to somehow find a nice balance in, particularly for #submarinecables, our primary means of trans-oceanic digital communications. 🧵1/

On the one hand, it's great for #DigitalDevelopment and #digital #connectivity that more telco infra is going in. But infrastructure is expensive... 2/

So some telcos want content providers (big tech like Facebook and Google) to share the cost, which makes sense if content makes up a big chunk of the internet traffic. 🗞️🔗👉Platform content makes up 55% of internet traffic in #France #Italy #Spain. 3/ reuters.com/business/media…

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Raisina Dialogue

@raisinadialogue

We are LIVE tweeting the Raisina AMA with @DrSJaishankar and @samirsaran

Stay tuned for updates!

Watch it LIVE here:

#Raisina2022 #RaisinaDialogue @MEAIndia

.@DrSJaishankar: Three things keep me up at night — the shocks that the international order is experiencing, particularly in the past two years—the #COVID19 pandemic, #Afghanistan & #Ukraine, & the friction between the #West & #Russia, the #USA and #China

#Raisina2022 @MEAIndia

.@DrSJaishankar: You need to develop an operational matrix to respond to a changing world. In our case, especially since 2014-15, we have had greater clarity on how we engage the world—concentric circles, neighbourhood first, but also a conscious policy engaging the major powers.

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Gonzalo Varela

@gonwei

Fast #import growth has overshadowed some very good news in #Pakistan. The latest release of disaggregated #trade data by @StateBank_Pak reveals that the first nine months of FY22 showed #record high #exports in real terms, since there's statistics.
Short 🧵👇 w/ more results.

1\ #exports grew by 24.8% in the first 9 months of FY22 w.r.t. same period of FY21, reaching 23.7 bn for goods and 5.2 bn for services.

#Pakistan #trade

2\ All top destinations show fast #export growth. Shipments to the #USA and to #China in particular.

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Arvind Virmani

@dravirmani

The flood of foreign Govt visitors post-Ukraine, suggests, that they are finally trying to understand #India & #GOI #policy from the "horses mouth" (instead of seeing it through the biases of neo-colonialists and their Indian agents).

https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1508365497011929090

2/IFP #India #Foreign #Policy (#IFP)

https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1508819207039123456

3/IFP #Japan #Kishida visithttps://mea.gov.in/incoming-visit-detail.htm?34991/IndiaJapan+Summit+Joint+Statement+Partnership+for+a+Peaceful+Stable+and+Prosperous+PostCOVID+World

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Nate Jones

@FloodHydrology

Below is a long-ish thread🧵for some context to this amazing meme from @DrArialShogren and @thats_me_del_p.

TL;DR -- Our words matter. They shape and bias our understanding of the systems we study.

[1/n]

https://twitter.com/FloodHydrology/status/1483191924739780611

First -- I'm blessed to have great colleagues @UaDeptBSC who put up with my shenanigans.

This conversation started with me giving @thats_me_del_p a hard time about a small grant proposal. The title mentioned "drivers of intermittence."

[2/n]

I'm not a big fan of umbrella terms like #sustainability, #connectivity, and now #intermittence.

In #interdisciplinary teams, negotiating a common language is difficult. I actually think its often MORE difficult when we share common terms with slightly diverging definitions

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Cristina Vanberghen

@VanberghenEU

"Be prepared" not to remind you the song from #TheLionKing but rather be prepared for 1st calls for the Connecting #Europe Facility #Digital to be launched this month January 2022! Below #mythread on CEF Digital Connecting Europe Facility #CEFDigital #MyPhoto 2021 #connectivity

CEF #Digital supports the following actions: 1. the deployment of #5G infrastructures in #Europe along cross-border corridors and 5G for smart communities. 1/1

2. The deployment of new or significant upgrade of existing backbone networks #cloud, ultra-secure #quantum communication infrastructures, submarine cables, to improve #electronic communications networks within & btw Member States and btw the #Union and #thirdcountries. 1/3

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Dr. Katarzyna Nowak

@katzyna

How do we steward #forests & #borderlands in a time of human upheaval & migration? Not by building border walls. Our letter @ScienceMagazine about how Poland’s planned wall would threaten transboundary #Białowieża Forest @MZmihorski @UNESCO @BonnConvention science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Transboundary frontiers are an emerging conservation priority as they often overlap #biodiversity hotspots & are threatened by construction of border infrastructure. Neighboring countries must co-steward wildlife that cross manmade lines @EcologyJiajia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We know from research on the US-Mexico border that walls do not deter people but do impede wildlife, including low-flying birds like pygmy owls. Barriers are an increasing global trend that fragment #connectivity of habitats & populations @ljevanso academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

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bank·a·ble

@mbuguanjihia

There's no better time to stake your claim at income & wealth creation by building for the #DigitalEconomy. Serial #entrepreneur & my good friend @SamGichuru & I used to meet at AvanteGarde, a #cyber hapo #CBD when starting out on our various #technology inclined businesses.

hio na ingine ground floor Barclays Plaza had the fastest connections in town. ETouch by #AfricaOnlineKE whose #CEO was tech entrepreneur turned investor @AyisiMakatiani also dotted the place lakini bei /min + I couldn't negotiate a flat rate for the day ... #MwelekeoNiInternet

Today, with @SafaricomPLC #4G and #5G #mobiledata connectivity, you can build a business and thrive from virtually any town in Kenya! #MwelekeoNiInternet

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Maria Pastukhova

@Energy_in_Asia

Well, breaking news will now keep coming every day ahead of #COP26 but this one could have MASSIVE implications for global energy markets & #fossilfuel demand: #China announces first details of its carbon neutrality framework aiming at #netzero by 2060 1/5 gov.cn/zhengce/2021-1…

The document introduces several consumption "peaks": peak #coal by 2025, peak #oil during the 15th 5-yr plan (2026-2030). Food for thought for #China's largest oil suppliers #SaudiArabia, #Russia, #Iraq, #Angola, #Brazil; and coal suppliers #Russia, #Indonesia, #Australia. 2/5

Energy #efficiency is one of the highest priorities. 2025 target is to reduce energy intensity of GDP by 13.5% compared to 2020 (note, the baseline is the COVID year)! New standards and certification to be introduced for #steel & other energy-intensive industries. 3/5

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Noé U. de la Sancha

@noe_delasancha

Pumped to share our latest publication @SciReports Identifying structural #connectivity priorities in eastern Paraguay’s fragmented Atlantic Forest @ChicagoState @FieldMuseum @RhodesCollege @TexasTech researchgate.net/publication/35…

Less than one-third of the region is forested, and the remaining forest largely consists of isolated remnants with
potentially disrupted connectivity for forest fauna.

We used a graph theory approach to identify those
forest remnants that are important in maintaining landscape structural connectivity for mammals
in this fragmented forest.

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Gonzalo Varela (stay safe)

@gonwei

In the context of #Africa Day 2021, what's #Pakistan's untapped #export potential with that region? #thread 👇👇👇

https://twitter.com/IslamabadScene/status/1397435895612014601

We have recently estimated #Pakistan's export potential at about US$88 billion. The untapped portion of that is close to US$61 billion.

thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/884b60a… 2/n

The largest untapped #export potentials for #Pakistan are with #China, and with its own region, #SouthAsia, for about 13 and 12.5 billion respectively, stressing the importance #regional #integration initiatives. 3/n

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Raisina Dialogue

@raisinadialogue

We are now LIVE tweeting the conversation between @vestager and @SunjoyJ. Join us for an engaging discussion #Raisina2021

.@vestager: When it comes to #digitaltech, we have been timid as democracies and societies to say it should serve humans like any other tech. Regulation ensures that services are delivered in a way that can be trusted, and keeps the market open and contestable #Raisina2021

.@vestager: In democracies, the debate among politicians and citizens should be the real debate, not fragmented, manipulated debates that drive the world apart #Raisina2021

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Tobias Gehrke

@TGehrke_

On Thursday, US @SFRCdems will vote on a "Strategic Competition Act" with China.

On #geoeconomic front, it aims to pull together some FP, #connectivity practices into one China-centric strategy and also proposes concrete policy measures.

Some highlights [long thread]
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101: $15mil/year for US embassies to hire expert who helps interested businesses with supply chain diversification/management away from China
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113: Global infrastructure needs closer monitoring, gov involvement. The Global Infrastructure Coordinating Committee (GICC) pushed as an important coordination tool
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Shemrez 夏玛尔 🇵🇰

@shemreznauman

#PakistanArmy #COAS Gen Bajwa: #NationalSecurity in the age of #globalization, #information & #connectivity has now become an all-encompassing notion. Surely it is not solely a function of the #ArmedForces anymore.
#IslamabadDialogue #IslamabadSecurityDialogue

#PakistanArmy #COAS Gen Bajwa: #NationalSecurity also includes providing a conducive environment in which aspirations of human #security, national #progress & #development could be realized.
#IslamabadDialogue #IslamabadSecurityDialogue

#PakistanArmy #COAS Gen Bajwa: #NationalSecurity has now become an all-encompassing notion, wherein besides various elements of national power, #global & #regional environments also play a profound role.
#IslamabadDialogue #IslamabadSecurityDialogue

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Guy Yeomans

@guyyeomans

I've started combining locations highlighted in my #connectivity research with in-situ listening via #radiogarden. Right now, the port of Constanta, Romania on the #BlackSea, while scanning a modernisation programme with "civilian-military dual-use of transport infrastructure" 1/

This morning, the port of #Alexandroupoli, Greece on the #ThracianSea with strategically important position for regional #energyflows. Scanning #flowsecurity development & mooted sale of majority stake of port to US commercial interests... / #connectivity & #radiogarden 2/

Nothing listed for the port of #Sabetta, Russia so Novy Urengoy closest station (375 miles away): Scanning the voyage of Christophe de Margerie, expanding navigation window in the eastern sector of Russian #Arctic, confirming year-round safe navigation... #psychoconnectivity 3/

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Boell Brussels

@boell_eu

🟢Today @vonderleyen will deliver her first State of the Union #SOTEU speech!

🕘Watch it live at 9:00 CEST: europarl.europa.eu/soteu/en/

#StrongerTogetherEU #EUGreenDeal #DigitalEU #NextGenerationEU #FutureofEurope #COVID19 #EU #Europe #MigrationEU @boell_stiftung @boell_EU_USA

https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1305872623717494784

🟢 What is the State of the European Union #SOTEU debate? It's an important moment of #EU #democracy, when MEPs hold the @EU_Commission to account, checking on work done & the #FutureofEurope.

🎞️by @Europarl_EN

#NextGenerationEU #EUGreenDeal @boell_stiftung @boell_EU_USA

🟢Starting in 5 min! First @vonderleyen's State of the Union #SOTEU speech and debate with @Europarl_EN MEPs & @EU2020DE.

Follow it live here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/soteu-2020_…

@boell_stiftung @boell_EU_USA #EUGreenDeal #DigitalEU #MigrationEU #NextGenerationEU #StrongerTogetherEU #CoFoE

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Jakub Jakóbowski

@J_Jakobowski

With the Three Seas Initiative summit approaching, it's high time for a recap on why 12 CEE nations joined efforts to develop #Connectivity, and why 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇳 got so interested in it

Here's a thread on the main points of our latest @PIE_NET_PL report on #3SI [link at the end]

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3SI is a political platform of 12 EU states, aimed at developing intra-regional connectivity (transport, energy, digital, people), complementing existing EU frameworks. It's got its own investment fund, got high-level 🇺🇸🇩🇪 endorsements etc. (find more details in our report)

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CEE was the fastest growing EU region after the 2004 enlargement. 3SI's share in EU GDP rose from 15,2% to 19,2%. With a flood of FDIs, it became EU's industrial backbone, esp. crucial for Germany (the 3SI region generates 19,8% of 🇩🇪's trade, more than any major partner)

3/

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