It was a targeted, joint technology development initiative, specifically on next generation display technology.
Participants of the 3rd Experts Meeting of the Green Development Initiative (GDI) met in Nairobi on 09-11 October, 2011.
This federally funded program is a comprehensive child-development initiative intended primarily for preschool children whose families fall below the poverty line.
And the Western Energy Alliance estimates that environmental approval for the average energy development initiative takes over seven years.
It's actually the first ThinkPad borne out of Lenovo's latest "clean sheet" development initiative -- an 18-month process that the company briefed me on here.
The road is a key element of the Maputo Corridor, a seven-billion dollar development initiative, which will eventually include a rail link, an upgrading of Maputo's harbour, factories, shops and hotels.
BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project
Drawing on the experience of the Green Development Initiative , I suggested that a critical contribution from the public sector would be to establish an accountable, measurable and transparent biodiversity asset.
Hopefully, this development initiative will create a groundswell of support from all sectors, both government and private, of reaching out to unreached communities, bringing the non-formal education, as an alternative pathway to personal growth and ultimately empowerment.
The roundtable also highlighted new tools and approaches such as the guidance on corporate ecosystem valuation from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD), the biodiversity-responsible land management certification from the Green Development Initiative ( GDI), and the new guidance on ecosystems assessment from the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation association ( IPIECA).
The book also highlights new initiatives and alliances such as the, the Green Development Initiative which aims to establish an area-based certified biodiversity unit, the ISEAL Alliance which is exploring the biodiversity dimensions of environmental and social certification schemes, the Malua BioBank in Malaysia, and Mission Markets which has established an e-platform for biodiversity deals.
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Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
The Division for Science Policy and Sustainable Development is preparing a new initiative: the Science, Technology and Innovation Global Assessment Programme (STIGAP).
We set up our Atlas Venture Development Corp (AVDC) initiative to push these types of deals forward back in 2010, and our Shire Alliance in 2012 is a variant of this theme.
While preparing the curricula, a team of four experts, commissioned for the initial development of the journalism education initiative, solicited a response to their first draft from twenty senior journalism educators who were deemed to have considerable work experience in developing countries and emerging democracies.
The internationally recognized initiative consists on the development of a policy for the universalization of Civil Birth Records in that country similar to the one carried out in Brazil.
This year, we built on that progress, when the Inter-American Development Bank approved another debt relief initiative for some of the poorest nations in our neighborhood, in our own hemisphere.
Analyze UNESCO priorities like Education for All (EFA), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and literacy initiative (LIFE) with the view of proposing new ICT-enhanced concepts, content and design, thus adapting delivery strategies to general education programme objectives.
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The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.
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It is unclear when Google may launch the new gaming offering and the plans aren't finalized, but people briefed on the matter said the games would be part of broader social-networking initiative that is under development by the Mountain View, Calif.
The Royal Government of Cambodia has long acknowledged the important role that culture plays in shaping national identity, strengthening social cohesion and contributing to the economic development of Cambodia, and its initiative and leadership will no doubt be integral in developing and implementing effective policies and actions in the field of culture.
"In those cases where the destination has overdeveloped, where it has gone over the critical limit of development, one of the only solutions is that you demolish hotels, you create green areas, you rehabilitate the beach areas, you try to bring back some of the biodiversity, " said Dr Tom Selanniemi of the Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
In October 2010, an international symposium on urban futures and human and urban well-being elaborated plans for a new three-year initiative to promote sustainable urban development and improve the relationship between cities and the ecosystems of which they are a part.
The Green Button initiative has jump-started the development of applications that will help customers become even better energy managers.
Through its 10, 000 Small Businesses Initiative, Goldman is tackling urban development by equipping promising small business owners with the tools they need to expand their businesses.
Google just announced a signature charity giving initiative, funding WWF in the development of cutting-edge technologies to help us detect and track both animals and poachers on the ground.
The overall goal of this joint UNESCO-Varkey GEMS Foundation initiative is to facilitate the professional development of 10, 000 principals in three countries: Ghana, Kenya and India over a four-year period.
Research into the use of wrasse was launched in 2008 and later co-opted into the Ecofish project, an initiative financed through the European Regional Development Fund and backed by state grants and private funding.
He added that his office had been supporting the event since 2000 and had set up 'Carnival London', an initiative providing an "infrastructure, development and investment programme" designed solely for London's carnival arts sector.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | Bombings influence carnival theme
In 2005, he launched the North Highland Initiative which aims to promote the economic development of the far north.
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