Its overall objective is to provide actors responsible for disaster management, risk prevention, civil protection and also spatial planning with EO-based solutions contributing particularly to an improved preparedness and mitigation planning for areas highly vulnerable to natural disasters and already noticeable climate change trends.

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Activities include the usual get-togethers and seminars, but the secret EO ingredient is off-the-record confessionals modeled along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups.

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Even though the bill may contain provisions that are problematic, it opens the door for business to ask Congress to limit the reach of the EO and PPD-21 by requiring all cybersecurity regulations to be specifically authorized by Congress.

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Rossman, a former Apple Computer executive who also headed the failed pen-based company Eo, owns 3.5 million Phone.com shares.

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The technical workshop in Venice will involve project partners and end-users in order to jointly develop a concept for global geo-information products for risk prevention and preparedness through EO imagery elaboration.

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