By a communal space, I mean a physical area where members of a community can interact with one another freely and fulfill some kind of common social aim.
The San Francisco social entrepreneurs aim to create an industry certification standard for environmentally friendly surfboards to give surfers, from pros to weekend wave warriors, a scientifically sound green choice.
There will be lots more: Social media companies aim to attract more ad dollars by offering to mine profile data of their members so that marketers can target their ads.
Last year the government set up Big Society Capital as a social investment bank with the aim of radically changing the way Britain's social sector is funded.
Marketers who aim their social arm at just one demographic run the risk of alienating other potential consumers: customers who influence other customers.
Sir Fazle's aim of social change requires not growth (in the sense of more of the same) but development (meaning new and different activities).
Mr Thomas warned however that the original aim that all social housing would achieve the WHQS by 2012 will not be met for some considerable time.
The aim: Mandatory social obligation for the private sector .
Most of them, including the (justifiably) celebrated UK social impact bonds scheme, aim at bringing investment capital as well as the logic of capital markets to the nascent field.
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Impact investing, a relatively new concept in African investment circles, typically refers to investments that aim to solve pertinent social and economic challenges while generating a financial return.
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At a recent forum sponsored by the Hudson Institute, social conservatives argued that governments should aim to encourage public virtue, others that government should get off people's backs.
By combining clinical, social and research data, researchers aim to identify more effective treatments, improve drug safety, assess risks to public health and study the causes of diseases and disability.
The second report will take the form of an in-depth research paper that will examine, and aim to quantify, social and economic benefits, evaluate different deployment and financing models, and look at the different technologies that can be employed to bring maximum speeds and network reach at affordable prices.
Getting more people into jobs would also help the government's aim of cutting spending on social security.
Furthermore, there is no uproar on financial social networks such as Seeking Alpha that aim to aggregate and gauge investor sentiment.
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Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling said the aim of the scheme was to change the culture of employment and encourage firms to employ older people.
By supporting organizations with cash donations, PepsiCo can be said to be exhibiting corporate social responsibility, but all with an aim outside its own operations.
All UNESCO Programmes are aligned with Human Rights and aim to examine economic, social and political aspects of rights, recognizing at the same time that rights are interdependent and interrelated.
When Adam Smith pointed out that, if people want dinner, they look not to the benevolence of the butcher, brewer or baker, but to their regard for their own interest, his aim was not to portray social interaction as mean and narrow.
Good intentions, as usual: the main aim is to stop bosses dodging social-security payments by falsely labelling their staff as self-employed.
When it comes to policies with significant economic and personal impact, and that aim so optimistically to solve great social ills, we need a lot more than minimum reporting.
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It is dubbed the "Outline for National Tourism and Leisure (2013-2020)" and is a roadmap for restructuring the current paid leave system across China with an aim to encourage governmental agencies, social organizations, enterprises and public institutions to promote the use of leave days.
Others, like the Yap.tv app for the Apple iPad, aim to let another device provide a social experience that can supplement live TV viewing.
And there will be a national college for social work to champion the profession, with the aim of attracting and keeping more people in the job.
The exhibit's introduction cites the government's definition of terrorism -- "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" -- and says its aim is to address how and when Americans felt under threat, and from whom.
The programme will also promote the development of new STI indicators in order to better respond to the specific needs of Member States within their different social, economic and cultural contexts with an overall aim to providing country appropriate policy advice on the formulation and implementation of STI policies, strategies and plans that contribute to building peace, inclusive societies and sustainable development.
With Robinhood, the aim is to make a transparent and free social platform for investing ideas, and give every investor equal access to this platform.
The transition from social media to emotional media is one in which the aim is keep users engaged more fully, for longer periods of time, and at key moments.
In an essay, he also recently took aim at the entire internet, including email, social networking and Google.
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