Yet BlackBerry is still playing catch up in terms of its app store and ecosystem.
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Recently, governments agreed to create the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The workshop will further help to develop policy directives for climate resilient development and ecosystem-based adaptation for mountain communities.
Have they neglected their computing products while they pursue the platform and ecosystem?
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Other more familiar players such as Qualcomm are orchestrating platform and ecosystem strategies in the most promising growth areas.
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Consider what is really at stake here: establishing or not establishing Android as a viable OS and ecosystem for smartphones.
Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.
In essence, the dialogue between the scientific community, governments, and other stakeholders on biodiversity and ecosystem services needs to be strengthened.
There have been some encouraging signals that Wall Street is increasingly recognizing the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services in business decisions.
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Current collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work for the first plenary of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Biodiversity itself is crucial to human life and to the reduction of poverty, in view of the basic goods and ecosystem services it provides.
In the face of their continuous and alarming erosion and unsustainable use, biodiversity and ecosystem services are gaining increasing attention in the international arena.
The displays highlights the invaluable services and ecosystem functions provided by oceans and coasts - from the food we eat to the oxygen we breathe.
The modern platform and ecosystem business model is an Apple invention.
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The Organization has been deeply engaged also with the creation of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a vital platform for action to protect biodiversity.
Meg Whitman might be aware of this (eBay is a platform and ecosystem company) but so far there is no sign that she appreciates the platform and ecosystem route.
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In that spirit, I wish to extend my deepest thanks to the Deshpande Foundation, which helped arrange for our town hall, and to the entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners who participated.
The big question for Apple is whether it can afford to follow a unique platform and ecosystem strategy for much longer, where everything ties back to the apps and content platforms.
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To mitigate the continued degradation of the ocean and its marine treasures, and to restore and sustain its critical market and ecosystem services, a transition must be made towards blueing the green economy.
The Conference welcomed the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) earlier this year and recognized the potential contribution it could make to enhance the effectiveness of the Convention.
However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Over 500 delegates, including from most of the 105 Member States of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), attended the first plenary meeting of the platform (IPBES-1), held in Bonn, Germany this week.
This meeting saw the participation of a substantial number of scientific organizations, programmes and networks active in the field of biodiversity science and taking an interest in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is being established with the broad intention of ensuring that the best available science is made available to Governments and other stakeholders to facilitate informed decisions and policies.
Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
Resources gained from the removal of harmful subsidies can then be used to create positive financial incentives for biodiversity protection, such as payment for ecosystem services schemes, whereby incentives are offered to landowners in exchange for managing their land to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Over the past decade there has been growing international agreement that the system for linking science and policy in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services needed further improvement, resulting ultimately in the process for creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The meetings also identified possible directions forward in achieving the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, including the establishment of an independent intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) and the development of an agreed regime for accessing biodiversity and for equitably sharing its benefits.
They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.
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These include using the IFCs Performance Standard 6 to guide the establishment of corporate biodiversity management systems, setting up IUCN Independent Review Panels to advise and monitor the implementation of these systems, certifying biodiversity management areas under the GDI, using the Biodiversity Offset Standard as needed, and adopting the GRI public reporting guidelines for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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