Last speaker before the coffee break Jostein Soland discussed 'Rural Identity'. He is from the Chambre of Commerce in Norwegian Stavanger. He was pleading for smarter cities. Okay, but cities are not the communities one expects to find in a rural area, are they?
We should see that differently, Soland said. There is a new urban highway developing, between Stavanger, Bergen and Haugesund. Not urban as in an agglomeration of buildings, but as a structure.
My table companion and I had a feeling that Norway is investing heavily in traditional infrastructures: highways, tunnels, bridges, railways. That is fine, if one has the money, but why not invest in digital highways for virtual traffic? Why not put a glass fibre cable through the tunnels?
donderdag 17 september 2009
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