“While transparency is increasing and adherence to the rule of law has improved in recent years, there is room for far greater efficiency and openness in government structures,” the study states.“The scenarios indicate that this would reduce opportunities for corruption, increase the effectiveness of public programmes and mollify some critics of the government who have the ability to destabilise the nation.”One area that has come in for criticism in the past is the kingdom's courts. The government earlier this month announced plans to spend 7 billion Saudi riyals ($1.87 billion) to overhaul its judiciary system, promising to place more importance on the independence of courts.The WEF study presents three possible scenarios for Saudi Arabia over the next 20 years - Oasis, Sandstorm and The Fertile Gulf - taking into account domestic issues, regional stability and the world economy.
Existing communications and computer architecture are increasingly being limited by the pedestrian speed of electrons moving through wires, and the future of high-speed communication and computing is in optics, experts say. The Holy Grail of results would be "wireless interconnecting," which operates at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current technology. The new discovery, made by researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Iowa and Philipps University in Germany, has identified a way in which nanoscale devices based on gallium arsenide can respond to strong terahertz pulses for an extremely short period, controlling the electrical signal in a semiconductor. The research builds on previous findings for which OSU holds an issued patent.
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