Sentences with phrase «new social infrastructure»

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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.

Washington insists it has not actively discouraged countries from joining the new bank, but it has questioned whether the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will have sufficient standards of governance and environmental and social safeguards.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

Far too often can «innovation» become a buzzword in today's new globalized economic reality, as governments seek to find new ways to increase GDP and revenues so they can sustain the critical social programs and public infrastructure so many Canadians rely upon.

Yet in the postwar years, far from cutting back, the government built infrastructure, welcomed immigrants and introduced many new social service programs.

As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.

With the spying agencies and corporations pushing through a new infrastructure of social control in pursuit of state power and limitless accumulation, it is up to us, as digital citizens, to fight back and define a new regime of protections and entitlements.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

That was a development stall, for the new NCNC government could not match the old AGgovernment's huge investment on social and physical infrastructure.

After a year of mostly verbal sparring between New York City officials and the president, the Trump administration's plans to scale back infrastructure plans and social spending and an immigration crackdown are poised to hit New York — the president's home state — where it hurts.

President Trump unveiled a new $ 4.4 trillion budget proposal Monday that boosts spending for the military, homeland security and infrastructure while imposing cuts to social - welfare programs.

The revenue created could be used to invest in infrastructure and rebuilding projects which would provide much needed jobs for New Yorkers, as well as for economic development, health care, education, and social services.

Owing to such quantum beams with large current, we can make a big step forward not only for creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures to contribute to our future life of longevity, safety, and security, but also for realization of laser fusion energy triggered by fast ignition.

Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filNew Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filnew cases of AIDS and new patents filnew patents filed.

The emerging global information infrastructure (GII) was a new and exciting environment full of promise and opportunity for research, education, commerce, entertainment, social change, and democratic governance, but where laws and ethical standards remained unwritten, and where individuals and institutions are still testing the bounds of acceptable behavior.

This essay is part of a collection of essays published by The Urban Institute that assess the challenges facing New Orleans and recommend tested models for making the city's social infrastructure stronger and more equitable than it was before Katrina.

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.

The works exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall illustrate the ways in which infrastructure can be used to segregate social groups from one another, as well as how an interstellar origin myth can create the possibility of new form.

Infrastructure kicks off a new season of visual art, performance, and community engagement devoted to the exploration of various mechanisms of social order at work.

The aim is to create a looping route between the buildings and pavilions, creating «a new breed of architecture as social infrastructure».

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

This includes a calculation for the social cost of carbon when building new fossil infrastructure.

They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death — but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially complex and impoverished society... Once you understand the transition in this way, the need is not for a supercomputed Five Year Plan — but a project, the aim of which should be to expand those technologies, business models and behaviours that dissolve market forces, socialise knowledge, eradicate the need for work and push the economy towards abundance.

Share on social media why you think we should halt new coal infrastructure in Africa.

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 histnew build) of the Burwood and Christchurch hospitals in Christchurch, one of the most significant social infrastructure projects in New Zealand's histNew Zealand's history

The current situation in New Orleans provides a stark illustration of what happens to civil society when funding is diverted from social infrastructure to the arms industry, using the pretext of invented wars (on drugs, on terror, on Iraq........)

LinkedIn has developed a new real - time data analytics system dubbed Pinot, that the social network uses to develop various data - intensive capabilities across its huge infrastructure.

The new Cyber Unit was launched by the SEC in September to focus on problems like ICO fraud, «misconduct» on the dark web, hacks aimed at stealing nonpublic information, intrusions into retail brokerage accounts, market manipulation schemes involving «false information spread through electronic and social media,» and cyber threats to market infrastructure like trading platform.

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