Not exact matches
At the same time, however, new technologies in the telecommunication and information sectors are making it easier for institutions to co-ordinate
regional activities and have tended to encourage
decentralisation of some financing activities, particularly those where proximity to clients is an advantage.
The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the
decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the
regional, national and local levels.
Similarly,
regional newspapers have also focused on issues of regionalism and
decentralisation, as illustrated for example by the Yorkshire Post's recent publication of a «Yorkshire Manifesto» in view of the 2015 general election.
Yorkshire First, the North East Party, the Campaign for the North and Mebyon Kernow offer an alternative programme of
decentralisation, which is intrinsically bottom up, and based on the establishment of directly elected
regional assemblies, with powers equal to those of the Scottish parliament.
But Nick Clegg also called for more
regional powers last week, saying: «If ever there was a time to push for action on
decentralisation, it's right now.
Decentralisation has many advantages, but will create both
regional and temporal imbalances that can not be met by expanding the grid alone.