Sentences with phrase «open government efforts»

Since the inception of DOT's open government efforts, the Department has approached the development of its Open Government Plan in creative ways.

The DOT Open Government Framework, shown below, includes the program lifecycle phases, crucial areas of assessment, and the key players involved in the planning and executing of Open Government efforts.

In the past, reform advocates have had some praise for the Cuomo administration open government efforts.

Not exact matches

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

Undeterred, Open Innovations aims to put all the right pieces — big traditional industry, high tech startups, government ministers, foreign and domestic investors, global media — all in the same room in an effort to alter these larger realities.

Taobao is the e-commerce (and around Taobao, recently more effort is spent on its own SNS, open platform etc); Alipay solves the online payment; Koubei (Yelp - like service) is building an active online community; Aliwangwang, the Instant Messenger helps you to communicate with the seller, the customers and friends; Alisoft is the SaaS platform, and strong partnership with third parties and the government help on the logistics, setting up offline stores, branding etc..

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

China's stock markets were once notoriously difficult to access, but the government has made a concerted effort to open its markets — including launching the Stock Connect programmes

Earlier this year, in an effort to stimulate the Italian economy, the Monti government enacted a law allowing shops across the country to open on Sundays.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

In fact, both parties» immigration stances — Democrats» efforts to protect the so - called Dreamers and Trump's insistence on funding a border wall with Mexico — are viewed by voters as less important than keeping the government open.

It observed as shocking attempts by some unseen hands in government to thwart efforts by the company to engage in what is lawful which will directly and indirectly open up job avenues for the youth in the area.

The White House is preparing to open a broad investigation into China's trade practices, amid growing worries in the United States over a Chinese government - led effort to make the country a global leader in microchips, electric cars and other crucial technologies of the future.

The other partners in the effort are the Sunlight Foundation, good government group Citizens Union, Socrata, web - developer coder training program Dev Bootcamp, and Ontodia, an open data solutions firm that has experience working with scraping PDFS and making them machine - readable.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro said, «The continued recognition of the dedicated work of our County's Office of Central and Information Services (OCIS), led by Commissioner Glenn Marchi, further demonstrates our efforts to create a more open and engaging platform for our residents to readily access information and communicate with county government.

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 the industry.

He also charged the federal government through the minister to intensify efforts at rehabilitating the Ilie - Ikirun - Iragbiji Road, stressing that it will be a major break as it will go a long way in Opening a lot of agricultural communities in the area.

Beyond today's budget news, Reinvent Albany is glad to see Governor Cuomo taking the lead in efforts to open up our state government with affordable, everyday, information technology.

Other investigations spurred government efforts to clean up Scajaquada Creek and reverse a decision to open Gallagher Beach for swimming because of serious water pollution.

One of the leaders of that effort, Senator Liz Krueger, says that in a democracy, «we're supposed to have open and transparent government, which means having access to information you need to evaluate your government.»

«The efforts by the young man to get the eyes of the Federal Government opened on the extent of looting of recovered loots by some EFCC leadership since inception is yet to yield result.

Unless you're a native of a country on the U.S. government's list of terrorist states, you may even find the process a bit more user - friendly than it was before the attacks, because, as part of the government's effort to prove that the terrorists failed to shut down the U.S. economy, INS remains open for business, adjudicating the vast majority of immigration visas as fast, if not faster, than before 11 September.

In an effort to reduce job instability across the public sector, in March 2012 the French government introduced the Loi Sauvadet, which was supposed to limit how long people can work on short - term contracts by moving them after 6 years to more stable, open - ended contracts.

Another example of using government data to help make people's lives better was after the Nepal earthquakes and the incredible grassroots effort by data scientists around the world to use open data to help first responders and aid workers better understand the situation around them.

Townes» appointment as director of research for the U.S. government's Institute of Defense Analysis in 1959 slowed his efforts to build an optical device, opening the door for Theodore Maiman to demonstrate the first laser — light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation — in 1960.

With our steady and sustained effort on disaster resilient development process, UDYAMA has bagged UN-ECOSOC status, Accredited to UN-Global compact, UN-CONGO, UNISDRR,UNEP - SCP engine GFDRR and Global Water Partnership and members in stakeholders» forum, City - Net, National Institute of Open Learning for Vocational Training, India Gateway, Government of India (NPO), Water Climate Coalition, Global Network for Disaster Risk Reduction and WSP, WSSCC, End Water Poverty and SAMHITA, CDRN, AADRR, SPHERE - India.

Our fourth Open Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businOpen Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businopen data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does business.

For more information on this effort and other DOT Open Government Initiative please refer to the DOT Open Government page at or contact the DOT Open Government team at [e-mail].

In the 2014 Open Government Plan, we have advanced our commitment to openness and engagement by focusing our efforts on new initiatives and by supporting activities that maximize efficiency, increase effectiveness, and spur economic development.

This fourth Open Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businOpen Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businopen data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does business.

The strategies outlined in our first three Open Government Plans align with the requirements of the Open Government Directive as well as the Open Data Policy and have been at the core of our open data efforts over the last six yeOpen Government Plans align with the requirements of the Open Government Directive as well as the Open Data Policy and have been at the core of our open data efforts over the last six yeOpen Government Directive as well as the Open Data Policy and have been at the core of our open data efforts over the last six yeOpen Data Policy and have been at the core of our open data efforts over the last six yeopen data efforts over the last six years.

The solution as determined by HUD was to open the floodgates and offer reduced down payments in an effort to liquidate these government owned foreclosures.

The US government focused on recovery efforts following the disruptive hurricane season, while the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its plans for balance - sheet normalization.

These dogs will be amazing ambassadors for our efforts to end the cruelty of the dog meat trade, and we hope to open a dialogue with the South Korean government about doing just that.

«Tourism is a vital part of Japan's growth strategy and our partnership with ITB Asia to attract international MICE travellers is one of the many efforts that further open our doors in achieving the government's growth trajectory target of 40 million by 2020.

Fiona Jeffery, Reed Travel Exhibitions Director World Travel Market, told the 500 senior travel executives attending the Official Opening: «Travel and tourism, supported by governments, must strengthen their efforts; more need to actively get involved, not just pay lip service to something which is now deemed fashionable.»

To bolster research efforts, government must do more by opening new paths of invention and ingenuity.

July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its well cap if reports of oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.

McCain: «To bolster research efforts, government must do more by opening new paths of invention and ingenuity.»

It builds on the World Bank's Open Data initiative and seeks to: improve disaster and climate change resilience; ensure streamlined data sharing and collaboration among government agencies, the private sector, academia and civil society; and encourage data collaboration with humanitarian efforts.

Ignace Schops was awarded the Prize in 2008 for his efforts to raise more than $ 90 million by bringing together private industry, regional governments, and local stakeholders to establish Belgium's first national park, protecting one of the largest open green spaces in the country.

We work with governments and other partners to enforce the laws by training rangers, deploying SMART (an open - source software system that improves anti-poaching efforts and overall law enforcement in conservation areas), developing intelligence networks, and working with judiciaries to ensure that arrests result in due - process prosecutions.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Between 2009 and 2011 the government of Canada engaged in an unprecedented lobby effort to open up the European market to oil from its devastating tar sands.

I mean, imagine what would happen if there was a huge terror attack, and the government used it as an excuse to extend wire tapping efforts and suspended habeas corpus and opened special prisons and such.

For many years now, law school career services offices have focused their efforts on three primary activities: (1) assisting top students as they navigate the OCI / large - firm recruiting process, (2) assisting the same top students as they also navigate the federal and appellate clerkship recruiting process, and (3) assisting everyone else as they apply to job openings in small and medium firms and corporate, non-profit, and government law offices.

The organization OpenTheGovernment.org has launched a blog, Evaluating Open Gov, as part of its larger effort to track and evaluate the federal government's progress towards fulfilling President Obama's commitment to «creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.»

These efforts are part of Ontario's Open Government Initiative, which is «about creating a more open and transparent government for the people of Ontario.&raOpen Government Initiative, which is «about creating a more open and transparent government for the people of OntarGovernment Initiative, which is «about creating a more open and transparent government for the people of Ontario.&raopen and transparent government for the people of Ontargovernment for the people of Ontario.»

My colleague Bob Ambrogi has posted several times on open government advocate Carl Malamud's efforts to liberate all court documents from their password - protected chains.

Today we are pleased to introduce the World Justice Project (WJP) Open Government Index ™ 2015, the first effort to measure government openness based on the general public's experiences and perceptions Government Index ™ 2015, the first effort to measure government openness based on the general public's experiences and perceptions government openness based on the general public's experiences and perceptions worldwide.