Gps affirmative

Japan

Cooperation Now

Japan and the US cooperating now – interoperability key to US and Japanese systems and cooperation on GPS key to stability in Asia

"Press Releases: Joint Announcement on United States-Japan GPS Cooperation." State Department Documents and Publications. (January 14, 2011 ): 703 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2012/06/30.

The Governments of the United States of America and Japan convened a plenary meeting in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 2011, to review and discuss cooperation in the civil use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and GPS augmentations, including Japan's Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) Satellite-based Augmentation System (MSAS) and Quasi-Zenith Satellite Systems (QZSS). The GPS consultations are held regularly pursuant to the "Joint Statement on Cooperation in the Use of the Global Positioning System" signed by the heads of the two Governments on September 22, 1998. During the meeting, U.S. representatives described the status of Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and GPS modernization and the United States' international GPS cooperation with third parties. Representatives of the Government of Japan reported on the status of the Multi-functional Transport Satellite Satellite-based Augmentation System and Quasi-Zenith Satellite Systems programs and on Japan's international Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) - related cooperation activities. Both Governments reaffirmed the importance of providing open access to basic space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services for peaceful purposes, free of direct user fees. Both Governments reiterated that GPS and its augmentations have become indispensable for modern life in the U.S., Japan and the world, providing essential services and increased efficiencies in a broad range of applications, such as aviation and maritime safety-of-life, geodetic surveying, car and personal navigation, mobile telephone timing, international financial transactions and electric power transmission. Representatives of both Governments reviewed the ongoing work of the Global Positioning System/Quasi-Zenith Satellite System Technical Working Group, which was established to foster close cooperation during the development of Quasi-Zenith Satellite System. The Technical Working Group reaffirmed that both systems are designed to be compatible and highly interoperable. Both Governments noted with satisfaction that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have commenced operations of a Quasi-Zenith Satellite System Monitoring Station on NOAA property in Guam. A similar effort between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish both a Quasi-Zenith Satellite System monitoring station and a Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer station at a NASA facility in Hawaii, in support of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, is expected to be completed shortly. Both Governments intend to continue cooperation in protecting spectrum used for GNSS and also reaffirmed the importance of pursuing the interoperability and compatibility of all current and planned global navigation satellite systems with Global Positioning and Quasi-Zenith Satellite Systems. This 8th Plenary meeting strengthened cooperative relations between the United States and Japan. Both Governments acknowledged the important future contribution of Quasi-Zenith Satellite System to the space-based positioning, navigation and timing services of Japan. They affirmed that continued close cooperation in the area of navigation satellite system will contribute to the peaceful development of the Asia-Pacific region and promote global economic growth. In that regard, both Governments welcomed the 6th meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems to be held in Tokyo, September 5-9, 2011, and the 3rd Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on Global Navigation Satellite Systems to be held in Japan's fiscal year 2011.

Poverty

GPS key - Poverty

GPS essential to poverty reduction techniques

Chowdhury ‘01

(Nuimuddin Chowdhury Consultant International Food Policy Research Institute. Nuimuddin Chowdhury runs Grameen Software Limited, a company chaired by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He wrote the two case studies published on The Globalist while a consultant for The Century Foundation in New York. Mr. Chowdhury was trained in Economics at Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan — and at the University of Cambridge, England. He worked in various capacities for the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). September 18, 2001 http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/divs/cd/dp/ictdp01.pdf Accessed: 6-29-2012 )

Against a background of rapid changes in markets and in the pipeline of technologies, the demand for real-time information and up-to-date knowledge to help make effective policy has become greater. Agricultural growth of a kind that assuredly lowers secular poverty has three essential ingredients: diffusion of modern farm technology; integration of markets, which enables cost gains to be shared throughout the market chain; and a diversified productive capacity in rural areas. The flow of information and knowledge is an integral part in all three. Also, the increasingly ascendant imperatives of natural resource management at watershed, landscape, and community levels point up the need for a sharp spatial focus in both research and policy. Dealing with malnutrition at policy and institutional levels also requires a keen locational or geographical differentiation. This again points up the relevance of geographical information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and other informational techniques. ICTs are relevant to each of the following imperatives: (1) give policymakers access to real-time information and best-practice knowledge distilled from the Web (by “servlets” and “Enterprise Javabeans” that combine to respond to “hot-button indents” from policymakers); (2) reduce private and public search and transactions costs; (3) respond to environmental modifiers at watershed, landscape and community levels; (4) foster diversification of the rural economy; (5) implement spatially sensitive informational strategies, which render food security and nutritional programs more effective and less costly; (6) harness the capability to mount early-warning information systems, with peoples’ participation. ICTs would likely pay off by increasing the effectiveness of the tried-and-tested recipes, but they also add some bite of their own.