Sentences with phrase «government transparency effort»

Government transparency effort to help solar industry, financiers and researchers better serve future solar market opportunities in New York State

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Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

«Smear campaigns, harassment, lawsuits and bureaucratic red tape are all tools used by certain governments in an effort to quiet those who drive anti-corruption efforts,» said Patricia Moreira, Transparency's managing director.

These steps include: efforts to simplify prospectus requirements for retail vanilla bonds and ease the personal liability of company directors; improving market transparency through the RBA's publication of new measures of corporate bond yields; the lengthening of the government bond curve; and the listing of certain fixed - income securities on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government.

Even worse, the Government is making no effort to clear up the confusion and provide greater transparency and ultimately greater accountability.

The government remained dismissive of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and other such multilateral efforts but it moved to implement domestic reforms.

Freedom of Information laws (such as the US's Freedom of Information Act) were implemented in an effort to at least give a semblance of transparency, as well as allow the general public to feel as if they can help hold their Government accountable.

Good government groups Citizens Union, the Empire Center, NYPIRG and Common Cause have publicly expressed support for Tedisco's efforts to bring greater transparency to state spending decisions with this bill.

The Senate President noted that the visit was apt at a time the 8th Senate was intensifying efforts to enhance government's non-oil revenue through a thorough scrutinisation of revenue generation activities of the ministries, departments and agencies, and demanding accountability and transparency in their operations.

He has been hailed as a transparency champion by the taxpayers» alliance, and his efforts to make local government more transparent have gained support from some unlikely places.

Efforts to ensure more transparency in the mining sector have been given a boost by Britain's decision to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global organisation encouraging national governments to be more open about their dealings with ttransparency in the mining sector have been given a boost by Britain's decision to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global organisation encouraging national governments to be more open about their dealings with tTransparency Initiative (EITI), a global organisation encouraging national governments to be more open about their dealings with the industry.

This lack of equity and transparency, is principally the reason the Buhari government's effort to address the challenge of corrupt campaign financing is considered hypocritical, one - sided, fake and dishonest.

They argue the city's plan to destroy personal documents associated with it, like foreign and U.S. passports, visas, birth certificates, and utility bills and leases, would hinder law enforcement efforts and violate Freedom of Information laws that require government transparency.

QUINN: So NOAA's policy is part of this Administration's and NOAA's leadership's effort to create transparency in the government and one thing that is outlined in the policy is that scientists can communicate their research to the public and that scientists can not only communicate their research, but they can also communicate their opinions to the public and I think that's a very important aspect of the policy.

The review is an important part of the Government's efforts to provide greater independent oversight over Commonwealth school funding and deliver increased transparency and accountability to the system, Mr Birmingham said.

As part of our efforts on government transparency, we obtained data on the compensation of most public employees in the state.

The Permitting Dashboard website, hosted and managed jointly by the Department's Office of Transportation Policy and Office of the Chief Information Officer, is one element of a larger, government - wide effort to streamline and increase transparency into the federal permitting and review process.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate findings.

One key effort should be to develop transparency of company payments to all international governments.

Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government.

Canada is the latest to jump on the popular blockchain wagon, when it announced that it was going to undertake a trial use of blockchain technology to record government grants and funding, in an effort to «improve transparency».