Information from the Internet partly makes up for geographical isolation and poverty.

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Development was spurred when, in the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa took on a pariah status that apartheid added to its geographical isolation: It was to manufacture fuels and chemicals from "indigenous raw materials, " i.e.

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As a result, Japanese companies are rethinking business continuity, eschewing traditional disaster recovery architectures and looking to the cloud to provide a new level of redundancy, failure isolation and geographical diversity for their IT resources in a more cost-effective manner.

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"In north Wales, there has been relative isolation because people moved less because of geographical barriers, " Prof Donnelly said.

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