TRENDS

• Planetary network is a network that provides light, love and care for our planet as a global citizen.
• Planetary network helps in transforming the physical climate of the planet, reorientating humanity to good attitudes and values towards Mother Earth.
• Global warming is associated to climate change.
• Global warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth.
• Climate change is one of the global problems that humanity is facing at the present time.
• Climate refers to average weather in a particular place, including precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind, and seasons.
• Climate change patterns play an important part in the formation of natural ecosystems and human economies and cultures depend on climate.
• Humans can live and survive on earth because of the sufficient heat that we receive from the Sun.
• Some of the solar radiation bounces back into space but a small portion of it is trapped by the delicate balance of gases that make up our atmosphere.
• Carbon dioxide or CO2 is considered as the most important gas in the Earth’s layer of insulation.
• Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere through different human activities such as fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil and gas) burning and cutting down the trees.
• Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect are water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide (N20), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), or F-gases.
• Climate change has produced severe and extreme environmental problems.
• Humanity has observed and experienced the impact of climate change.
• Climate change will bring about a continuous rise in global temperatures due to the increase of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
• ICT in ushering in social movements can be historically traced back to December 2010 when citizens of the Arab world used social media as an instrument for organizing and rallying large numbers of people resulting in a string popular uprising in the region referred to as the Arab Spring.
• The system today tends to make the costumers passive recipient of information instead of creators and producers of local information.
• The goal of social movements can either be the implementation or the prevention of a change in society’s structure or values.
• Britannica defines social movement as a loosely organized but sustained campaign which supports a social goal.
• Relational Networks or one-mode networks are characterized by rules that determine the presence, direction, and extent of relationship between any two units.
• Affiliation networks refer to networks in which the rule determines an affiliation of a unit with an event, organization, or group.
• In Hongkong, there is the “Umbrella movement” which called for fully free elections of Hong Kong executives that is free from interference from mainland China.
• ICT has also led to the formation of “occupy movements”, or movements that have no set of leaders, no official set of demands, and no projected outcomes.
• The size of social movements differs but the action is essentially collective.
• In social network analysis, relationship refers to a “collection of ties of a specific kind measured on pairs of actors” from a particular group of social entities.
• Countries like Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya were able to oust dictators and corrupt regimes whose papers have gone unchecked for the longest time.
• The brain and the nervous system can be likened to a neural network in two ways: Knowledge is acquired by the network from its environment through a learning process and interneuron connection strengths, known as synaptic weights, store the acquired knowledge.
• Connections between social units establishes a tie or link between two actors or social units.
• Users need to be aware, literate, and innovative to maximize the full gains from ICT.
• Human Capacity - Computer literacy remains a challenge.
• People more or less gather together in a spontaneous fashion driven by a common outlook on a specific issue that concerns to larger society.
• Networks are a set of units like nerves, species, individuals, institutions or states, and a rule that determines the “magnitude, and/or direction of ties” that exist between any two social entities or nodes.
• In the United States, there was “Occupy Wall Street” which denounced economic injustice and protests against the greed of corporate America.
• These movements may not be able to boast success in terms of correcting the problems they are protesting about, but it has created enough awareness and political engagement from its constituents.
• Neural networks can be taught to process an audio signal and screen it appropriately.
• Neurons are very sensitive that is why they readily respond to any form of pressure.
• Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, the inventor of one of the earliest neurocomputers, defines neural network or more commonly called “artificial” neural network (ANN) as “a computing system made up of a number of simple, highly interconnected processing elements, which process information by their dynamic state response to external inputs.
• The hidden layers are connected to a layer of output units.
• The most common application of neural network is face recognition and optical character recognition.
• Neural networks can be used to drive physical vehicles or even the simulated vehicles.