"What the US hopes is that the more advanced militaries get involved in UN operations, their presence will make existing contributors raise their game.
There's a signal from this summit to some of the existing contributors whose soldiers are not willing to fight or go on patrol they shouldn't just assume that the current peacekeeping system and very low expectations of peacekeepers will continue," he said.
There has also been speculation that the existing contributors, such as the very wealthy and big business could be asked to pay more.
The company also said it is not providing a migration path for existing contributors who submit Creative Commons images, which left some web historians and Internet archivists scrambling.
But the US president faces strong opposition from some existing major contributors, such as India, which regard the changes as antithetical to the purpose and history of peacekeeping.
Launched in late 2012, NewsPoint is described as a web-based platform to provide editors and newsrooms with "unique" footage (video, photographs and text), captured and reported in real-time by people on the ground — content that is provided by existing Blottr contributors.
[C3.] U.S. Seeks a Cleaner Coal Plant The Energy Department announced plans to build an experimental power plant within 10 years that runs on coal but emits no carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that makes existing coal plants major contributors to global warming.
And after the furore over the biographical entry last year, Wikipedia changed its rules so that only registered users can edit existing entries, and new contributors must wait a few days before they can start new ones.At the sourceOther sectors have also begun to adopt open-source approaches.
These existing investors were the main contributors to the company's $1.8 million series A raise back in March of last year.
The toolkit allows contributors to convert existing simulation programs, which typically rely on text based input and output, into Web-based tools with graphical interfaces.
