infrastructure

Examples of infrastructure in the following topics:

• Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace

  • Now ubiquitous, in current usage the term "cyberspace" stands for the global network of interdependent information technology infrastructures, telecommunications networks, and computer processing systems.
  • The United States government recognizes the interconnected information technology and the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures operating across this medium as part of the US National Critical Infrastructure.

• Providing National Security

  • ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure; using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information;

• Independent Agencies

  • Instead, these agencies are generally justified by acts of Congress designed to manage delineated government functions, such as the maintenance of infrastructure and regulation of commerce.

• Education Policy

  • Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, include school size, class size, school choice, school privatization, tracking, teacher education and certification, teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements, school infrastructure investment, and the values that schools are expected to uphold and model.

• The Shifting Boundary between Federal and State Authority

  • Any state that lost highway funding for any extended period would face financial impoverishment, infrastructure collapse, or both.

• Cabinet Departments

• Regulation and Antitrust Policy

  • A number of barriers make it difficult for new competitors to enter a market, including the fact that entry requires a large upfront investment, specific investments in infrastructure, and exclusive arrangements with distributors, customers and wholesalers.

• Deregulation

  • Entry to some markets was restricted to stimulate and protect private companies as they made initial investments into an infrastructure that provided essential public services, such as water, electric and communications utilities.

• Economic Aid and Sanctions

  • Aid may have other functions besides humanitarian: it may be given to signal diplomatic approval, strengthen a military ally, reward a government for behavior desired by the donor, extend the donor's cultural influence, provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or gain other kinds of commercial access.

• The First Political Parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists

  • Hamilton created a financial system for national and international stability that included paying off the national debt and laying the infrastructure for further economic development.