Sentences with phrase «improve public processes»

Infosys's Peter Loop examines four potential opportunities in which blockchain could improve public processes.

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BMPS failed a stress test in July and has to improve its capital position, even if that process might include public money.

The startup will collect data during the public trial to refine the software and improve vehicle routing efficiency, the booking process, and passenger experience ahead of a wider commercial launch that is expected to begin in 2018.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

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Saunderson said she is not opposed to improving the park, but wants the public to be given a chance to be involved in the process.

The bill Requires the State Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services to coordinate, through a stakeholder engagement process, to do the following: — Improve the process for WIC eligibility and application enrollment via Medi - Cal and Covered California enrollment.

However, by improving regulatory and approval processes and advancing public - private collaboration, we can leverage the private sector resources and expertise needed to achieve world - class infrastructure.

Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany New York Public Interest Research Group Tri-State Transportation Campaign Statement Regarding Governor Cuomo's Veto of Port Authority Reform Legislation And Approval of FOI Legislation We appreciate Governor Cuomo signing a bill improving the Port Authority's Freedom of Information process.

Republican lawmakers have argued that public financing has not stopped elected officials from abusing the system, but good government leaders believe that it improves the legislative process by reducing the dependency on fund - raising.

The quality of government — an elusive concept but measured here by various measures of public satisfaction — has not shown the dramatic decline that some expected, but neither has it improved significantly as expected by advocates of more responsive and transparent government processes.

@cbeleites: There is also the argument that public service broadcasting serves the society as a whole and improves democratic processes (by distributing information and acting as a watchdog).

Meanwhile, the end of the remedial works indicates that, the process to connect the TEN fields to the Atuabo plant has been completed with a significant increase in the amount of natural gas produced to run the power generating facilities at Aboadze, to improve the overall reliability of power supply to the general public.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

As Buffalo Public Schools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the schools.

She stressed the importance of public input in a variety of contexts, from improving policing to the state budget process to the search for a new Albany City School District superintendent: «You have to be a part of the process.»

«The workgroup is working on an ambitious set of proposals for increasing transparency and public participation and improving the legislative process,» workgroup co-leader Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, D - Manhattan, told the Times Union.

The news comes nine months after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced that he would convene the workgroup to improve and strengthen the chamber's rules, operations and legislative processes and to promote better transparency and public participation.

He lists his platform priorities as holding banks responsible for «zombie» properties through the foreclosure process, providing high quality customer service for all residents, and improving public accessibility, particularly for those for disabilities.

Fellows have the opportunity to observe and participate in the process by which events and ideas become news, improve their communication skills by learning to describe complex technical subjects in a manner understandable to the lay public, and increase their understanding of editorial decision making and the way in which information is effectively disseminated.

In fact, the panel is charged with providing «recommendations as to actions that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of shale gas extraction processes and other steps to ensure protection of public health and safety,» according to Chu's memo (pdf) laying out its mission, which must deliver «immediate steps to be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking» within 90 days of its first meeting.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

Foods produced through well - known microbial processes will improve food safety and public health.

We hope this will help improve the treatment decision making process and ultimately, the patient's quality of life,» added Orom, PhD, associate professor of community health and health behavior in UB's School of Public Health and Health Professions.

Therefore... we hope to see that the President's FY 2016 budget proposal prioritizes NIH funding so that the agency is able to begin the process of ensuring that our country is able to consistently support the plethora of research opportunities to improve public health that currently exist.

The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.

By 1951, water fluoridisation, the process of adding fluoride to water to improve the nation's dental health, was an official plank of US Public Health Service policy.

We could dramatically improve the health of a nation — if people like Piers Morgan would spend more time telling the public about the dangers of highly - refined, simple sugars and trans fats found in most processed foods.

They give us a scope to present ourselves in public and improve in the process.

Half those schools missed their achievement goals for two or more years, putting almost one in five of the nation's public schools in some stage of a federally mandated process designed to improve student achievement.

Leaders in the Springfield, Missouri Public Schools have utilized process improvement strategies in their district to improve several aspects of their services, including training, graduation and nutrition.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.

Cheers, Love, and Altruism at the Graduate School of Education Harvard Magazine, 5/29/13 «The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.»

Michelle Lerner, a spokeswoman for D.C. Public Schools, said that administrators are improving their processes for obtaining the proper paperwork for students who transfer in and are making sure students are enrolled in courses that lead to graduation.

«The application process itself proves that we can and will continue to work together to continuously improve public education across Washington,» Mary Lindquist said.

Explore all Oakland public school options using the Oakland School Finder, apply to 95 % of charters with one application, and get connected to the District's new and improved enrollment process for District schools.

Milwaukee Public Schools is developing a series of Strategic Objectives — eight big ideas to improve outcomes for students — as part of a process that aligns the district's budget process to our operational and strategic planning.

TCSA supported this legislation and continues to work with charters on increasing performance through training, technical assistance, and the Quality Framework, a research - based continuous improvement tool and process designed to help public charter schools assess quality and improve academic performance.

The new law (E2SSB 6696 - Regarding Education Reform (2010)-RRB-, enacted in support of the state's efforts to participate in Race to the Top, requires Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to partner with the Washington Education Association, Washington Association of School Administrators, the Association of Washington School Principals, and the Washington State Parent Teacher Association to design a process for improving the state's principal and teacher evaluation systems.

In this report, prepared for the Center on Reinventing Public Education's National Charter School Research Project, Julie Kowal and Bryan Hassel draw upon interviews with high - quality charter school authorizers and school districts to offer a framework and preliminary lessons for improving the process of school closures.

This is problematic, said the researchers, because, «If parents and the general public receive little information on what is going on in the education process, it is hard for them to gauge what steps are needed to improve academic performance.

Over the next several years, this group will work through the complex process of envisioning, designing, prototyping, launching, and continuously improving a transformational set of Oakland public schools.

When it comes to improving our dismal public school offerings, parents are now taking the initiative, spurred on by disturbing documentaries like Race to Nowhere, which bashes the daily grind with a refocus on the thriving child who is educated for the current age and allowed an elusive childhood in the process.»

To help provide the answers people need, Faces of Learning is asking people to share personal stories of their most powerful learning experiences; attend and / or organize public events at which people think together about how to improve the local conditions in which people learn; and use a new interactive tool called the Learner Sketch, which invites users to explore their own strengths and challenges among the various mental processes that influence learning.

Governments must decide how the commissioning process will be managed to ensure that organizations selected to run public schools have strong managerial capacity, the right leadership, and sound teaching and learning strategies that will ultimately result in improved educational quality.

In their book, «School Choice: The New Improved Sorting Machine,» Moore and Davenport report the study of public high school choice that found «Most families did not understand the complex process.

Veteran teacher Rich Nixon, one of the six plaintiffs in the suit, said the drumbeat against due process was started by lawmakers who are more determined to silence teacher voices than improve public education.