Sentences with phrase «first open government»

As proposed in its first Open Government Plan, DOT has increased the use of Web - based dialogues significantly in the past four years.

The model illustrated in Figure 1 highlights the goals and objectives articulated in the first Open Government Plan and recognizes that public engagement principles build upon each other to foster effective decision - making and service delivery.

Since the publication of the first Open Government Plan in 2010, DOT has made significant strides to enhance public and stakeholder engagement.

In its first Open Government Plan, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recognized that the Open Government initiative is about more than adopting new tools and emerging technologies — it is about effecting real policy and internal culture change to ensure that our Department truly becomes even more transparent, participatory, and collaborative, both internally and externally.

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In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

To that end, Digium's Asterisk open source technology is currently being used in business, government, and educations settings in 140 countries and we most recently signed a partnership with NTT to become the first company to bring open source telephony to Japan.

Fujairah will be holding the Innovation Race, a competition aimed at finding ideas to improve local government services, open to residents of the city, and with a winning prize of AED 20,000 for first place, AED 15,000 for second place, and AED 10,000 for third place.

The Saudi government plans to begin building hundreds of permanent cinemas, the first of which may open as early as March this year.

It's incredibly encouraging that the U.S. government appears up to the task with Superintendent Ben Lawsky of the New York State Department of Financial Services leading the way by maintaining an open dialogue and recently, drafting the first proposal of BitLicense, a set of rules that aim to bring clarity to how government officials and businesses deal with cryptocurrencies.

We develop and publish SSA's Open Government Plan every two years — the first in June 2010.

Although first reported in a local paper, it was left to BC - based The Tyee to break open this scandal, which includes a concerted federal government cover - up of information about the TFWP, including a new TFWP initiative called the Canada - Alberta pilot project — one that has been left almost completely unregulated and which likely paved the way for the dismissal of those 270 tradespeople.

The Government of the Maldives is geared towards developing the newest Islamic banking hub.Just four years after the first Islamic bank was opened on the shores of the Maldives, the country's...

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However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

As soon as you go out into the public realm, and put yourself in situations where you are no longer interacting with individuals PURELY of your faith, then you are now open to the government enforcing those people's first amendment rights, and the rights of an individual absolutely outweigh the rights of a religious affiliated private organization.

In his speech at the official opening of the new Robert S. Zeigler building that will house IRRI's Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, First Vice-President of Burundi His Excellency Bernard Busokoza stated that the government strongly supports further collaboration between IRRI and Burundi to improve the region's rice production and support the fight against food insecurity.

Japantoday.com reported Sept. 13 that the government of Japan opened the doors for fresh imports from Idaho for the first time since 2006, with Japanese officials citing reduced pest risks associated with the pale potato cyst nematode.

The government has been providing operating funds for Trailside since it first opened in 1959.

«After two decades of dithering by government officials and four years of herculean drilling, pounding, hauling and lifting by 7,000 workers, a new 3.1 - mile bridge is set to open at the Tappan Zee in the early hours of Saturday, the first crossing on that scale that has been built in the New York region in more than half a century.»

To recap, there are three big ideas underpinning the concept, according to government speeches and documents: first, a focus on enabling civic action; second, a focus on»em powering communities»; and, third, the opening up of public services, allowing a wider range of organisations (private and voluntary) to deliver services.

This is the first in a series of posts summarizing recommendations for using the explosion in information technology to open New York State's government.

In the first State of the State message open to the public and the first using internet - age technology to deliver the presentation, Governor Cuomo said he would open up government to the public and work in partnership with all stakeholders to address the serious fiscal challenges facing New York State and its local governments.

Reinvent Albany applauds Governor Cuomo for launching Open Budget NY, which is an important step for open government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatOpen Budget NY, which is an important step for open government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatopen government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatOpen NY initiative.

A funding bill is keeping the government open through the first week of February.

Cuomo's first act as governor was a symbolic move towards fulfilling his promise of make government more open to the people.

A New York City Council candidate who had made his name as a technology consultant and spearheaded an open government initiative several years ago found parts of his website copied by another City Council candidate in a different borough, as Politicker first reported.

The government today announced plans to provide # 1,500 grants for up to 2,000 first - time buyers in the Open Market HomeBuy scheme.

Five of New York's good government groups are calling on the Senate Republicans to have an open debate on the chamber's rules and offering some suggestions on improvements to the changes that first came to light earlier this week.

Kallos is also one of first 50 people who joined BetaNYC when it was called «Open Government NYC.»

The first ISTC was opened in 1999, and three years later the government announced a roll - out of more than 20 such clinics, starting with areas where extra capacity was most needed in routine elective care such as hip replacements.

William Hague's disposition towards carrying the foreign policy brief into government would of course be the major factor in whether the top job in that area would be open to him, but another factor to consider is that in a Shadow Cabinet desperately lacking in experience of government Trimble's heavyweight status and experience as First Minister of Northern Ireland would bring some much - needed gravitas to the team.

Several remain - backing Conservatives also expressed their concerns about the government's plans for Brexit during the two - day debate, with former chancellor George Osborne warning that May had decided not to make the economy the first priority as she opens negotiations.

«The First Minister may shower himself in glory with a gracious u-turn, but the simple fact remains that any party committed to the principle of open and transparent government would never have axed these reports in the first pFirst Minister may shower himself in glory with a gracious u-turn, but the simple fact remains that any party committed to the principle of open and transparent government would never have axed these reports in the first pfirst place.

Hansut is a retired police officer who won his first term with a pledge to have open and transparent government.

«For the First Minister - a former Minister for Open Government himself — to defend his decision to scrap these reports is absolutely unacceptable.

The president will open the first factory under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government's, One - district - One factory program on Friday.

Political observers suggest Gibson's decision not to run opens the door for Molinaro to consider a run for the seat: the County exec says he's dedicated to local issues... for now... «I'm in the final year of my first term as County Executive and in New York State, county governments are facing great challenges.

When the prime minister first became an MP he appeared open - minded to drug reform, but Clegg said he showed no interest in the issue when the pair worked together during the previous coalition government.

Let me add that though thousands of email accounts were opened for government and military officials by the Jonathan administration during its first 100 days, it will be pedestrian of me or anyone connected to that administration to list such a mundane accomplishment as an «achievement».

Twice as many new free schools will start the new term this week compared with last year, as 55 open their doors for the first time, the Government has announced.

The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, has hinted he could be open to a coalition between Labour and the Scottish National party (SNP), raising the possibility that he could return to Westminster and take a senior role in the government next May.

A first step in the fightback is being taken by Greg Barker, the climate change minister, who writes in a Guardian article that the government will help drive down energy costs by prising open the energy market to challenge the «big six» suppliers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said earlier this month that opening the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway on Jan. 1 will help reaffirm confidence in government.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

The opening article of the 4th constitution of the first Republic is very clear and unambiguous about why we elect governments: «The Sovereignty of Ghana resides in the people of Ghana in whose name and for whose welfare the powers of government are to be exercised in the manner and within the limits laid down in this Constitution».

The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.

IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri at first defended IPCC, calling the Indian government report «voodoo science,» opening up a row with scientists in his country's government.

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.

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.

An August 2012 Congressional Budget Office report estimated the government would collect roughly $ 5 billion in the first 10 years after opening ANWR to energy development.