Sentences with phrase «built social infrastructure»

At each step, we built social infrastructure like communities, media and governments to empower us to achieve things we couldn't on our own.

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.

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.

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.

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, investment 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.