But Labour said this showed the scheme was in crisis and that the information technology needed for it was not ready.
The financial crisis was exacerbated by inadequate information and bad assumptions.
Google Crisis Response, to make critical information accessible before and during natural disaster and humanitarian crises.
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It takes more information, or a crisis of some kind, to bring everybody to the table and work out a deal.
Mr Williams said suppliers were pleased to be able to gather together to gain information about how the crisis impacted on them.
It is obviously a very fluid situation and everybody is searching for the most -- the best information available in a crisis situation.
Even more so than most areas of economics, people looking for solid information on the euro crisis are far more likely to come across spin than facts.
The idea is to get relevant information fast, instead of what usually happens, which is getting information long after a crisis is over, said Robert Kirkpatrick, director of Global Pulse, who spoke today at a technology and human rights conference in Berkeley, Calif.
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Dell's shares have fallen nearly 60% over the past three months, hammered in the wake of a disappointing second quarter and a financial crisis that has rocked some of the information technology sector's largest customers.
Even before the crisis, many argued banks were abusing these information asymmetries.
According to a number of recent articles, this ubiquitous and all-powerful bug is the worst crisis ever to face the world's information systems.
That would help them share information and better work together in a crisis.
Living in a media fish bowl, even small incidents can balloon into a crisis, and in an Internet age, with information spreading at warp speed, it is wiser to quickly eliminate the threat of controversy.
The need to acquire as much information as possible before acting in a crisis situation also explains why the United States is currently orbiting a new generation of space-based infrared satellites that can detect missile launches and nuclear detonations within seconds after they occur.
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Faced with any problem, any crisis - given any excuse - Labour grasp for more information, pulling more and more people into the clutches of state data capture.
The financial crisis has prompted dozens of lawsuits over how the banks relayed information to investors.
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The DoH fiercely denied claims from Ms Griffiths that it had been slow to share vital official information about the safety of PIP implants as the crisis unfolded.
"Just as everyone is mobilising to get over the crisis, it would be wrong to take a step backwards regarding information that the consumer has the right to expect, " the ministers said in a joint statement.
The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded a mass of new information and spurred a great deal of activity under each of these headings.
Yet for all their tireless information-swapping, globocrats were caught napping by the financial crisis.
Obviously, the Japanese who have the lead on this, as this is a crisis in their country, are working very hard to get the best information possible.
"In times of crisis, it's important to try to help people by quickly providing information, " the spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail.
They have no reason to do otherwise insofar as the Soviets continue to withhold vital financial and economic data such as the scope of the payments crisis, the size of remaining Soviet gold reserves, and several other categories of information commonly revealed by other debtor nations.
The information has struck a chord with the public in the midst of the financial crisis, Baker said.
Google has created a 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami crisis resource centre with emergency phone numbers, a person finder tool and updated public transportation information (in Japanese).
The Farm Crisis Network - which provides a helpline and practical and pastoral support - and the Rural Stress Information Network were receiving hundreds of calls a day at the height of the outbreak.
When the H1N1 flu crisis first emerged, the United Nations was in the forefront -- and centre -- providing information and coordinating the response.
The first one is that many CIOs (chief information officers) have become risk-averse to new technologies, thanks to the economic crisis, and the adoption rate - at least in my opinion - has slowed down.
For more information on what happens to the data, see the FAQ: What happens to the data when the crisis has subsided?
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