Sentences with phrase «global public infrastructure»

Is blockchain — and its associated technologies and platforms, including Bitcoin and Ethereum — about to blossom from being an obscure niche technology to become the basis of a new kind of global public infrastructure?

Our goal is to create an ecosystem of inter-operable products and the global public infrastructure to power them — putting consumers and businesses on the path to a world without wires.

Not exact matches

Facebook's unique position in the global communications infrastructure makes it different from any other public corporation.

David Caplan is a Vice-Chairman at Global Public Affairs and former Ontario Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

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In December 2015, S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Real Assets Index, the first index of its kind, which is designed to measure global property, infrastructure, commodities, and inflation - linked bonds, using liquid and investable component indices that track public equities, fixed income, and futures.

As Sachs writes, «Technological progress has been fueled by the ongoing revolutions of basic science and spread by the power of global markets and public investments in health, education, and infrastructure.»

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

George Bilicic, Lazard's Global Head of Power, Energy Infrastructure, touted Suozzi's «years as a government reformer» and his experience in the office he lost in a upset last fall to Republican Edward Mangano, saying it provided him with a unique understand of public - private partnerships and «real - life insight into the workings of government.»

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

This implies creation of global technological superstructures - based (public) infrastructure in both cases.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

Our state policymakers, institutions of higher education, and our public schools must work together to develop the infrastructure to build a bilingual teacher pipeline that meets the growing demand of families for bilingual education and prepares our students for an increasingly global society.

The CPP Fund is invested in a three main asset classes — 50 percent in Canadian and Global public and private equity markets, 33 percent in fixed income and the rest in real assets like real estate and infrastructure.

Global infrastructure needs broach both industries, and spending is being driven by both the private and public sectors.»

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 1986.

We must enhance community safety and enjoyment: Traditional infrastructure isn't designed to handle the increased floods and droughts that come with global warming, so we need a modern approach to protect public health, safety, and quality of life.

The Climate Data Store (CDS) at the heart of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) infrastructure, will be presented by Baudouin Raoult, principal software architect and strategist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at a workshop on 22nd Sept in Paris the focus of which will be to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

Building on current developments in international initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. (even more globally) took to the streets, local parks, bike trails, public monuments, and more to call for the U.S. and others to move beyond fossil fuels.The global fossil fuel infrastructure is a threat to our future everywhere, and a common target for our movement.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

This public shaming of Amazon seems to have worked, because a few months later they announced «a long - term commitment to achieve 100 % renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint.»

The first because it very clearly explains why we must immediately stop investing in fossil infrastructure (and it was McKibben who in 2012, with his blockbuster Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, first drew the political implications of «the carbon budget approach» out into the public discussion).

Professionals in BLG's Public - Private Infrastructure Projects Group were featured in the 2015 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada ®, the IFLR and Chambers Global — The World's Leading Lawyers, and recognized with a Martindale - Hubbell ® AV ® Preeminent ™ 5 out of 5 Peer Review Rating.

His career began in sales with IBM, matriculated to Pepsi Cola where he headed its world - wide infrastructure, consulting and network applications and, from 1996 — 2015, bourgeoned through senior executive roles with Cisco that included Global Director of Financial Services, Vice President of New York Metro Area, Vice President of Americas Vertical Sales, Senior Vice President of U.S. Federal Organizations and Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sectors.

Our client base covers sectors from banking to TMT, infrastructure to Energy and from global multinationals through to public sector organisations.

The state alleges that emissions from cars made by these companies account for 30 % of all carbon dioxide emissions in California and seeks compensation for public expenditure on planning, monitoring and infrastructure changes associated with global warming.

According to a recent report by Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC), security and public safety organizations are spending large sums of money on big data infrastructure and software, in order to deal with growing global security threats.

The pair is hoping to play a disruptive role in the global payments space with Lightyear by aggressively pursuing a global mission of creating an open and public financial infrastructure, enabling greater access for individuals, lowering costs for banks and increasing revenue for businesses.

To protect its members and the public at large, the Global Cyber Alliance will not collect any Personal Identifiable Information, and will only possess what is voluntarily provided — data that describes or identifies the attackers» information, such as location or infrastructure, and the threats associated with them.

The Waves Platform, a global public blockchain platform, was founded in 2016 to reinvent the DNA of entrepreneurship around the world by providing a shared infrastructure, offering easy - to - use, highly functional tools to make blockchain available to every person or organisation that can benefit from it.

Selected Accomplishments Significant direct operating and senior - level decision making experience, with extensive contract development and proven negotiation abilities resulting in $ B in new public infrastructure projects, several Fortune 500 partnerships, and $ MM in raised investment capital Exstensive domestic and international SaaS sales management experience within the global AEC industry, leading expansion into Dubai, UAE, and other parts of the Middle East Successfully structured and completed early - stage business financing, a $ 5 million Series A Private Placement, $ 5M in convertible debentures, and $ 5M private equity international bridge financing

In addition, an aspect of various child welfare system reform initiatives is supporting the system's infrastructure to be able to implement fairly global policy changes (e.g. Family to Family program, Families for Kids program, public - private partnerships).

CBRE's Global LaborView (GLV) is a web - enabled application that synthesizes labor and real estate market intelligence on a unique, powerful interactive platform, performing interactive analytics and assessment of regional demographics, infrastructure, labor and political and risk factors, lending to an informed perspective not available in the public domain.