As early as 2001, UNESCO and the European Space Agency initiated the Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Support the World Heritage Convention and set up a large network of UNESCO space partners.
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On Tuesday, the Open Government Initiative published the new Open Government Directive.
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The Sakai Project is a community source software development project founded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
She works for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, founded by the philanthropist George Soros.
The Open Government initiative was put forth initially by President Obama, and Brazil is a co-chair in the forum.
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The Open Data Initiative, an effort to make government data machine-readable and accessible to all citizens.
Some 42 countries filter and censor content out of the 72 studied by the Open Net Initiative.
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The Open Cloud Initiative is also engaging governmental agencies in dialog to identify immediate uses for cloud technologies.
Microsoft is supplying a font technology called ClearType to the Open eBook initiative.
The WEF Open Cloud Initiative is observing projects like ULAP and refining their approach to advocacy and fundraising as governments and the private sector make their priorities known.
Stemming from the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative and the America COMPETES Act, which together strongly encourage and provide specific guidance on the use of competitions and challenges in the Federal Government, there has been significant momentum in the use of incentive prizes in the public sector in the past two years.
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It is particularly ironic that the United States is pursuing an "Open Skies" initiative with the Soviet Union at the very moment that it is considering abandoning its foremost system for exploiting the opportunities afforded by such an arrangement.
The Rural Initiative Scheme is open to rural and marine companies that wish to diversify and improve their efficiency.
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Most recently he served as the Open Government Program Manager at OpenPlans where he established the Open311 initiative.
Starting this month, Millennium Park began offering free wireless internet to the public, and as part of the initiative the Broadband Challenge all parks and open spaces in Chicago will eventually offer free internet.
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That initiative would open the Treaty to additional signatories, a step calculated to make it more difficult to change its terms in the future.
The only really new thing in the chancellor's speech was the recruitment of Beth Noveck, the woman who's been running the Obama administration's open data initiative.
The payment isn't in exchange for the students' work per se, but sponsorship does open the door to projects like the Yoo-hoo initiative.
We're not totally clear on why these guys need this on top of the Android Market and China Mobile's own Open Mobile System initiative, but for what it's worth, Chinese buyers of the XT701, MT710, and XT800 will have yet another way to find, buy, and store purchases for their phones.
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"The journey across 500 miles of open water strains their endurance to its limits, " the Initiative said.
The Open Government Partnership is a new multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, fight corruption, and use new technologies to strengthen governance.
In 2012, the ONC rolled out the Automated Blue Button Initiative meant to open up health information that is technically owned by consumers, but has been painfully difficult to access.
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Asked point blank, last month at the Clinton Global Initiative, if he would open an infrastructure bank in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter tiptoed around it.
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As the countries of this region continue their important endeavors to political, economic and social reforms, we welcome the initiative by the United States to open new economic opportunities for all the people in the Middle East.
The company is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the recording industry's effort to develop an open, secure access system for digital music.
For many countries in Europe the DRIVER initiative was the critical stimulating activity for Open Access developments.
While its implementation remains up in the air, SUNY aims to introduce Coursera materials this fall and over the next few years as part of its Open SUNY initiative.
Indonesia took the initiative to establish the Bali Democracy Forum, an open forum for countries to share their experiences and best practices in fostering democracy.
This echoes arguments made by drug firms against makers of generic drugs. (Never mind that innovation in software tends to occur in universities and start-ups, not big firms.) Microsoft is advancing it through a lobby group, the Initiative for Software Choice, hoping to dissuade governments from using open-source software.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
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