As we've made our great leaps from tribes to cities to nations, we have always had to
build social infrastructure like communities, media and governments for us to thrive and reach the next level.
As we look ahead to
building the social infrastructure for a global community, we will work on building new tools that encourage thoughtful civic engagement.
At each step,
we built social infrastructure like communities, media and governments to empower us to achieve things we couldn't on our own.
Not exact matches
To rebuild after a crisis, we've
built the world's largest
social infrastructure for collective action.
There are two distinct types of
social infrastructure that must be
built: The first encourages engagement in existing political processes: voting, engaging with issues and representatives, speaking out, and sometimes organizing.
My hope is that more of us will commit our energy to
building the long term
social infrastructure to bring humanity together.
Zuckerberg wrote in his February manifesto, «In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the
social infrastructure to give people the power to
build a global community that works for all of us.»
The committee was pleased with the specific inclusion of the one - year extension of the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit, and the $ 8.4 - billion investment in capacity -
building, education and
social infrastructure for First Nations.
toronto's alexandra park example urban community investments
social infrastructure building brighter future residents.
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social infrastructure, prioritize investments affordable housing seniors» facilities,
build housing units refurbish old ones, support municipalities maintain rent - geared — income subsidies - ops, communities money need housing initiatives help homeless canadians housing.
Built on the strong foundation of
social economy and enterprise activity in Québec, these initiatives will provide valuable
infrastructure to support
social entrepreneurs and impact investing in the region.
Yet in the postwar years, far from cutting back, the government
built infrastructure, welcomed immigrants and introduced many new
social service programs.
Obviously, aside from the huge
social and financial commitment needed to set up the
infrastructure, re-profile roads, re-lay Tarmac, fit miles of Armco,
build grandstands, pay for race - hosting fees and gain approval and sign - off from the FIA, we don't see any barriers to our vision.
We're doing work in places as difficult and far flung as Iraq and Syria, Somalia, Indonesia,
building football pitches and giving the programmes that go around that
infrastructure, those football pitches, that helps us support people to great
social outcomes.
Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and
buildings, to
social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.
Sometimes, I see a throwback from the Nkrumah era and this era when you are
building the
social and economic
infrastructure and people say we would not eat
infrastructure.
The findings also demonstrate the links between the actual
built environment and
social mobility: a better
built environment, including schools, hospitals, homes and
infrastructure, provides greater opportunity for economic and
social progression.
Passionate about his country and committed to
building an enduring legacy, President Mahama who is inspired by such heroes as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Prof. John Evans Attah Mills revealed that his vision from inception was to focus on five areas: Electricity, Education, Water, stabilizing the economy as well as restoring
social and economic
infrastructure.
This year, Hillary Clinton's team raised hundreds of millions of dollars online,
built a massive data and human
infrastructure to turn out their voters, invested their money in targeted TV advertising, created opportunities for volunteers to work in their own
social circles on behalf of the candidate — all pieces Obama had shown should work.
And so you have to
build social and economic
infrastructure first and then after that you put livelihood empowerment on top of it.»
We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the
social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The
infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being
built to restore the confidence of the people.
As Issie Lapowsky describes in Wired, to facilitate their
social campaign, they
built a data
infrastructure to support multi-variant testing of Facebook content on a massive scale:
It should tell you that there is something happening with the economy, the economy is becoming more resilient than it was in the past; and what we've done is to lay the basis for more investments by
building on the
social and economic
infrastructure.
That would
build better roads, more schools, and other
infrastructure, physical and
social.
Reform to improve schools, investment to
build homes and
infrastructure — because we know that's the only way to deliver real opportunity and
social mobility.
When Fayemi was there in Ekiti doing everything,
building schools and others, he provided a lot of
social infrastructure.
President Roosevelt put people back to work, while he regulated banks, establishing a minimum wage, creating labor rights that
built labor unions,
Social Security, and
building infrastructure, all at the same time.»
Samantha Hoffman, a consultant with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, says the program is tied to long - standing efforts to
build a digital surveillance
infrastructure and is «specifically there for
social control reasons».
Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved
building construction, provision of services, and
infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting
social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303
For his investigations into the role of defunct
buildings and his vision for public,
social uses of
infrastructure.
«He rallied his district and community, business and government leaders to systemically improve preK — 12 instruction and achievement and
build a local
social infrastructure to support the learning process.
Catalina's participation in two Alternative Spring Break programs - Inequalities in Urban Education (D.C.) and Community Organizing in the Favelas (Rio de Janeiro)- furthered her interest in the connections between
built and
social infrastructure and compelled her to think deeply about identity and equity in education.
Participants will learn how to help parents
build a
social / emotional
infrastructure that connects to students who enter the Pre-K-grade 8 classroom door.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal
social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by
building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.
The Liberals had promised a 10 - year investment in
social housing
infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including
building more units and refurbishing existing units).
Liberals: Start a new, 10 - year investment in
social housing
infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including
building more units and refurbishing existing units); encourage the construction of new rental housing by removing all GST on new capital investments in affordable rental housing; loosening the existing qualification rules for the Home Buyers» Plan to allow more Canadians affected by sudden and significant life changes to access their RRSP savings for a down payment; review escalating home prices in high - priced markets, including Toronto and Vancouver, and review all policy tools that could keep homeownership within reach for more Canadians.
Making his initial mark with landscape portraits of the US intelligence
buildings and the various
infrastructures that are used to conduct their mass surveillance programs, Paglen has been documenting the digital space for many years now, creating abstract photography and multimedia pieces surrounding themes of data freedom and the
social issues arising from lives increasingly spent online.
Blas engages topics of post-capitalism, dildotectonics, utopian plagiarism, and
social media exodus, constructing a contra - internet praxis that both refuses its control logic and
builds alternatives to its
infrastructure.
The San Francisco Arts Commission envisions a San Francisco where the transformative power of art is critical to strengthening neighborhoods,
building infrastructure and fostering positive
social change.
The aim is to create a looping route between the
buildings and pavilions, creating «a new breed of architecture as
social infrastructure».
Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved
building construction, provision of services, and
infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting
social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303
This includes a calculation for the
social cost of carbon when
building new fossil
infrastructure.
The two major components are (i) an Engineering Component targeting development of
infrastructure and (ii) a Soft Component targeting
social development,
building awareness and ensuring citizen participation.
Our future planning can not focus solely on
building resilient
infrastructure without addressing the underlying
social fault lines.
(Consider for example that when a single
building is damaged in a town, economic and
social infrastructure in the same town may be available to help rebuild and provide temporary shelter, etc..)
The design of the
infrastructure suggests a dynamic environment where spaces for
social interaction is established in several pockets throughout the
building.
Not to mention the people who might have been put to work
building parks, fixing theaters and arts centers,
building the kind of
social infrastructure that lasts for centuries instead of just paving more roads to Oklahoma.
the Ministry of Health on the $ 650m + post-earthquake redevelopment (demolition, refurbishment and new
build) of the Burwood and Christchurch hospitals in Christchurch, one of the most significant
social infrastructure projects in New Zealand's history
Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while
building our
infrastructure and highly valued
social programs during some thirty post-war years.
NEM.io Foundation Ltd. (NEM) the smart asset blockchain technology project today announced that Snap Interactive, Inc., a leading provider of live video
social networking applications
building on blockchain and other innovative technologies has selected NEM to power the company's core blockchain
infrastructure.