Teledesic is a global network that aims in late 2002 to provide Internet access, video conferencing and computer network connections through 288 low- orbiting satellites to its customers no matter where in the world they are.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
The movement aims to facilitate a global dialogue about the responsibilities of governments in pro-actively furthering freedom on the Internet.
Eduardo A. Braniff is CEO of Imagination The Americas, a global, independent, creative agency that aims to transform business through creativity.
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The IQOE aims to collaboratively engage the global oceanographic community by combining the expertise of physical oceanographers, acousticians, behavioral biologists, ecosystem modelers, and population biologists.
He spoke about the challenges of the people in the Congo and what his group aims to achieve, at the Global Philanthropy Forum, a conference held last week in Redwood City, Calif.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.
They were among the first volunteers in IBM's new Corporate Service Corps program, which aims to stretch the company's vast global reach while building a network of international teams.
The main activity aims to link the local group and school work with the national and global events.
The company said it aims to have all its cars produced in Brazil built on updated, global platforms by 2015.
Developing countries wonder how that squares with the aims of making it easier for poor-country farmers to compete in global markets and have proper access to the domestic markets of the rich countries.
As markets and regulators begin to digest the massive failure of MF Global, many have come out to call for stricter enforcement of the Volcker Rule, which aims to separate proprietary trading from commercial banking in order to minimize systemic risk.
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The meeting was part of a new initiative that aims to achieve universal access to modern sources of energy, double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix and double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, all by 2030.
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It is the only intergovernmental programme that aims to apply social science research to development issues, encouraging policy-oriented-research to face current global challenges, and bridging the gaps between researchers, civil society and policy-makers in order to allow them to work together, whilst respecting the individual role and place of each actor.
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