Technology

The Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) project aims to enhance climate resilience, gender equality and social inclusion, and biodiversity protection in urban communities in …

land productivity, crop yields, and access to technology. Kigali, Rwanda Kigali faces pressing climate …

This policy brief explores the implications of the 15% global minimum tax on special economic zones, offering comprehensive guidance for governments to reform tax incentives and ensure these zones attract …

availability of niche infrastructure such as technology development labs. • Streamlined administration … mobile activities (like financial services or technology) and this may affect one or multiple zones in …

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

2024), the issue of information and communication technology products that use cryptography was also removed … governance and information and communication technology products that use cryptography has meant that … services 13 Enhanced trade facilitation 14 Use of technology for the release and clearance of goods 15 Provision … Source code 31 Information and communications technology products that use cryptographyIISD.org 20 WTO …

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

amounts of energy audible, just as its asso- ciated technology, the microphone, zoomed into a new universe of … or talk. That sound space also includes the technology that facilitates conversation recording and the …

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

consequences that modern instrumentalism and technology have caused. While traditional theories of responsibility … of their action, modern instrumental- ism and technology destroy this proximity. It becomes impossible … Denkens) Martin Heidegger, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’1 This chapter aims to develop the analytical …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

and sea are an ancient phenomenon modified by technology, the coming of air travel brought entirely new … a growing faith in expert use of science and technology to predict and control risk, and hence accidents … past two and a half centuries, his- torian of technology Arwen Mohun argues that the notion of collective … insurance companies, and others used science, technology, andIntroduction 11 statistics to explain, predict … Burnham, John. Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology and Misfits of the Machine Age. …

This study evaluates the feasibility of switching from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves to induction stoves in urban Indonesian households, focusing on cooking practices, energy demand, and cost. Using the …

outcome is a market-ready range of innovations (technology and business models) which lead to improved … natural when people are being confronted with a new technology. Some participants continued to use their LPG … Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology and the National Research and Innovation Agency … due to low familiarity with the new induction technology, leading to more hesitation for its use. Consequently … that even a very short testing period for the technology can reduce mental hesitation to using induction …

This policy highlights information security laws and regulations, and outlines the responsibilities of CIHI's management and staff.

committed to safeguarding its IT (information technology) ecosystem, to securing its data holdings and … Security audits; • Acceptable use of information technology; • Security in backup and recovery; • Business …

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subject areas, typically English, math, science, or technology. Table 3. School Scores for Legitimacy Framework: …

In its 2023 Emission Reduction Plan, the Government of Canada has committed to a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels by …

emissions intensity of the economy faster than technology allows, we can predict that Canada will not …