Sentences with phrase «development of our open government»

The DOT began preparing for the OMB Open Government Directive by designing an Open Government framework to guide the development of our Open Government Plan.

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

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We stand ready to work with all levels of government to foster an open economy that facilitates the sustainable development of our natural resources and maximises our regional advantages as Canada's Pacific Gateway.

ABLAC gathers a C - suite group of business leaders in Asia and Canada to provide a forum for an open and candid dialogue on how Canada can realize the full potential of its business and economic engagement with Asia, as well as providing strategic policy advice informing the development of an Asia Strategy for the Government of Canada.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

The park district is one of 46 agencies statewide awarded a total of more than $ 16.5 million from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, officials sOpen Space Lands Acquisition and Development program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, offiDevelopment program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, offidevelopment of land for parks and open space, officials sopen space, officials said.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

Opening the 2nd African Mobile and ICT Expo (MOBEX 2016), the president said «one of government's initiatives and infrastructural investment that would create opportunity for sustainable opportunity and entrepreneurial employment for 10,000 of our young people in the digital eco system is the development of the BPO center near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange.

The governor further said the construction of some critical roads in the state, particularly Sango - Ijoko - Alagbado - Oke Aro - Akute - Alagbole Road, would further open up the state for industrial development and successive governments would only need to maintain it.

Vice President Amissah - Arthur said the NDC government would continue to provide more infrastructure in order to open up the area for investments and to create jobs for the people and that the second term of President Mahama would focus on the resource development of the country.

If approved, New York would be exempt from a five - year program from the federal government that seeks to make up to 90 percent of the country's off - shore areas open to gas and oil development.

He said his campaign consists of three pillars: open government, preventing the «mis - development» trend in Harrison and fiscal responsibility.

All over the world, groups and individuals are using technology in a variety of innovative ways to increase government transparency, fight corruption, open data, hack on civic problems, strengthen economic development, address environmental problems, improve public health and education, and advance the conditions of women and children.

According to a statement by the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, quoted the Governor as making the observation yesterday while declaring open a one day seminar organised for information officers in local government and local council development areas and area offices across the state.

The New York State Committee on Open Government today issued an Advisory Opinion, disagreeing with a recent contention by Sheena Salvino of the Hudson Development Corporation that HDC is somehow exempt from the requirements of the State's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).

In August 2016, in response to a request by the Times Union, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, Robert Freeman, said in an advisory opinion that Cuomo's office and the state department of Housing and Community Renewal should not hold back from release otherwise public documents based merely on the contention that they might relate to the federal probe of upstate development deals.

The director of the state Committee on Open Government said in an advisory opinion that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and the state department of Housing and Community Renewal should not hold back from release otherwise public documents based merely on the contention that they might relate to an ongoing federal probe of upstate development deals.

Local issues may also have helped, especially the huge housing development planned for the open land between Thurmaston and Barkby, which the Tories claimed were a Central Government Labour policy, but still went ahead after the 2010 GE; I would guess this lost the local Tory Party a lot of credibiliity.

Comments on open government, Opus 40, the state Open Meetings Law, support for a controversial housing development in Glasco brought some sharp exchanges in an otherwise low - key town candidates» forum Monday, sponsored by the League of Women Votopen government, Opus 40, the state Open Meetings Law, support for a controversial housing development in Glasco brought some sharp exchanges in an otherwise low - key town candidates» forum Monday, sponsored by the League of Women VotOpen Meetings Law, support for a controversial housing development in Glasco brought some sharp exchanges in an otherwise low - key town candidates» forum Monday, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

In a speech to open the National People's Congress on 5 March, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang — the country's top economic official — gave a broad - brush overview of the central government's draft plan for economic development during the 13th 5 - year plan, which runs from 2016 to 2020.

The federal government is about to open up to wind energy development vast swaths of deep ocean waters, and states and wind park developers are vying to be the first to seize the new frontier.

«Our plan for open and fair government starts today with restoring the long - form census,» said Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science and economic development, speaking in Ottawa alongside Jean - Yves Duclos, minister of families, children, and social development.

In January, the Bluestar, one of the hotels built to attract affluent tourists to Kathmandu, opened its doors to Nepal's first computer exhibition and conference, organised by the Computer Association of Nepal to show the Nepalese population, and the newly elected United Marxist - Leninist Party government, that software development could be as important as tourism to the Nepalese economy.

The four - day space conference brought together leading scientists, engineers, policymakers, government officials, entrepreneurs and journalists to address the significance of the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political - economic developments that could open the way to the human exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.

The outcome document specifies that the process leading to the SDGs needs to be coordinated and coherent with the processes considering the post 2015 development agenda and that initial input to the work of the Open Working Group will be provided by the UNSG in consultation with national governments.

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.

Some lobby for government grants to keep programs open, pointing to the positive effects of neurological development that come from arts education while others have helped institute «integrated» curricula that involve arts education in science and math classes.

The Department of Transportation's Open Government Plan development process follows a strategic methodology designed to guarantee the creation of meaningful programs that will fulfill the Administration's stated goals of increasing transparency, participation, and collaboration between the Federal government andGovernment Plan development process follows a strategic methodology designed to guarantee the creation of meaningful programs that will fulfill the Administration's stated goals of increasing transparency, participation, and collaboration between the Federal government andgovernment and citizens.

The development of the Department's Open Government Plan is not an event.

Only recently established in 2011 to take over the functions of the disbanded Securities Commission of New Zealand and Government Actuary, the task of the FMA is «to promote and facilitate the development of fair, efficient, and transparent financial markets» and that it «will use the full range of its enforcement powers, targeting conduct that presents the greatest likelihood of harm to the function of open, transparent and efficient capital markets.»

Austin, Texas launched an open - government initiative in 2012, with the goals to support transparency and to encourage the development of new analysis and visualization applications based on data collected and held by city agencies.

«Thanks to the hard work, dedication, and the generosity of hundreds of volunteers, government agencies, and our supporters, we opened the HART Adoption Wing to the public in April of this year,» says Mercedes Pellet, Development Director.

By the end of the 1980s, in an attempt to attract more upscale travelers, the government restricted coastal development and soon a wave of swanky heritage hotels opened.

Fortunately, the government mandates the creation of green space for every big development, and that's evident with Gardens by the Bay, the 101 - hectare botanical gardens built on waterfront reclaimed land, which opened earlier this year.

A new initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank, the government of Honduras, and the Climate Investment Fund is helping to replace open - fire cookstoves in Honduras with «ecostoves,» which use less wood and emit less smoke.

Lush Spring Prize judges write an open letter calling on governments to put the Sustainable Development Goals at the heart of their policy and programmes for action.

These standards are developed in an open, third - party accredited process with subject matter experts from a wide range of disciplines, including academia, government regulators and industry experts, who all come together with one goal: to improve and advance the safety of energy development.

And so their pathways study concludes that «perhaps the most important priority of government policy at present is to ensure that, to the extent possible, the options for the full range of technologies are kept open, so that they all have an opportunity to be commercialised if their development in the meanwhile singles them out as one of the more competitive low carbon technologies of the future».

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.

28 June 2016 — Action on climate change in the form of green policy, finance and market approaches can drive sustainable development in Africa, government, business and civil society representatives heard on the opening day of Africa Carbon Forum.

Ahead of the opening of the Paris climate change conference in December 2015, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and other high - tech entrepreneurs announced the formation of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which will fund a worldwide public - private partnership among governments, research institutions, and investors to finance clean energy innovation and low - carbon development around the globe.

The involvement of those in the commercial film sector and the funding of a wider range of government departments opens doors to developments which might otherwise prove unattainable.

Covington & Burling will open a new office in South Africa, to be led by Ben Donovan, a project finance partner with experience in representing a wide range of infrastructure clients, including oil and gas companies, government and parastatal entities, independent power producers, investment funds, and lenders in, and to, the development, acquisition, financing, restructuring, and divestiture of energy and infrastructure projects worldwide.

The Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development (HUMA) recommended in its 2016 review of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program that the government develop open work permits and pathways to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers.

The government not only eschews such open debates but seems to have altered its own intuitions on the subject in just three years, even in the absence of any developments in the meantime.

Although the intention of this note is to guide and facilitate the development of linked open data for open government initiatives Hanson considers this W3C paper to be, ``... one of the best and most concise guides available on the subject of publishing linked data, and though it focuses on publishing government linked data, the project phases described could be applied to any type of linked data project.»

Built under technical governance and open collaboration, individual developers, service and solution providers, government associations, corporate members and end users alike are all invited to participate in the development and promotion of these thriving technologies.

These developments were followed by the coordinated and open network approach envisioned in the Dutch market through the formation of the National Blockchain Coalition (in March, 2017), representing possibly one of the leading government - driven efforts to develop and create the «conditions for reliable and socially acceptable blockchain applications.»

Candidate Development Programs may be open only to members of a specific agency, only to GS - 14s or GS - 15s within the federal government, or some are open to the general U.S. population.

A human rights based approach and respect for the principle of free, prior and informed consent requires a more open and collaborative approach to policy development by government departments.