The joint programme will support and improve local management of environmental resources and service delivery through improving local level environmental governance and developing replicable models for local level environmental planning.

UNESCO: Water

According to research also carried out by the corporate governance advisory group, Manifest, the average level of dissent registered in all explicit votes on remuneration was 11.7% - which was up from 9.6% in the previous year, but significantly below the dissent levels of 16% and 12.4% seen in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

BBC: The myth of a shareholder spring

Since then Vietnam has announced a program of "people's mastery at the grassroots level" designed to improve governance by improving financial transparency.

CNN: Vietnam and the Crisis

While you would think that many months of planning are occurring at the CIO level around the use of cloud computing, most cloud computing adoption is beginning at the project level, and many of these projects are flying under the radar of traditional IT governance.

FORBES: The Great Enterprise Migration to the Cloud Begins

The consultation meeting saw the participation of high level regional governmental and institutional representation, groundwater experts from fifteen countries from the region who discussed groundwater governance in the region.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN AMMAN