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.
Participants of the 3rd Experts Meeting of the Green Development Initiative (GDI) met in Nairobi on 09-11 October, 2011.
LG, Philips and Sharp invite other Smart TV makers and application developers participate in the initiative and provide ideas for simplifying the development process while improving the user experience.
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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.
The main goal of this UNESCO initiative is to implement innovative, sustainable and accredited capacity development programmes in the field of curriculum.
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.
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.
In 2011, as a result of a two-day workshop on Internal Migration and Human Development, UNESCO and UNICEF launched the Internal Migration in India Initiative (IMII) to support the social inclusion of migrants in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the country, using a three-legged approach combining research, policy and advocacy.
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In 2005, he launched the North Highland Initiative which aims to promote the economic development of the far north.
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.
Its development considers the construction of university networks that give viability to the initiative, in the medium and long term.
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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.
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.
By leveraging U.S. private-sector engagement, technical expertise, and financing, in partnership with Brunei, Indonesia, and other regional leaders, this initiative will tangibly enhance energy security in the Asia-Pacific, setting the path for sustainable development for the 21st century.
Under the terms of the initiative, the Varkey GEMS Foundation, in close cooperation wiith UNESCO, will provide leadership and professional development courses to improve the skills and knowledge of the school principals.
Romney continued the conversation about the Middle East, albeit in a less confrontational way, when he spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, tying his plan for economic development through trade and free enterprise to stability in the region.
Development and assembly of the International Space Station now culminates the largest, most complex initiative in human history, a testament to great potentials and peaceful benefits of multi-national collaboration.
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"We know the whole city will get behind the development to bring it to a reality as quickly as possible in particular with our community initiative gathering pace, " he added.
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.
Launched in 2010, the program is an unprecedented public-private initiative spearheaded by the worldwide mobile industry and the international development community.
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