The Broadband Report: It was one ‘gigafied’ week

{Editor’s note: Joe Freddoso is president and chief executive officer of MCNC, which operates the statewide North Carolina Research and Education Network, or NCREN.) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Can high-speed networks really help us meet the world’s grand challenges like trying to feed a world of 9 billion people by 2050? Chris Vein, chief innovation officer for Global Information and Communications Technology Development at the World Bank believes it. Researchers in this world of big data need to collaborate more. Researchers must approach the world of big science and big data with the four V’s of discovery: Volume,...

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