In other words, after a big race to the bottom led by disruptive telecom company Free, the Government wanted to stabilize phone plan prices and foster infrastructure investment.
While Obama has avoided "make work," I presume as a matter of economic principle, his efforts to foster infrastructure programs have languished, putting few people to work, bogged down by bureaucratic paperwork, even though, in less pressing circumstances, some of it--like environmental impact studies--would be useful.
"The real challenge that now needs to be tackled is to foster infrastructure-based competition and encourage the deployment of high-speed access networks.
Fostering infrastructure wealth of both the proprietary and open kinds is the only valid public policy goal, the proper avenue to a constant escalation in the basic capabilities of the Internet as a whole, much as we have already enjoyed without net neutrality jamming the process.
Speaking to the British Parliament in 1982, President Ronald Reagan called on the United States "to foster the infrastructure of democracy" to help ensure that people around the world were empowered to determine their own fates.
Instead, Mr. Conard said, entrepreneurs in the United States have been willing to take big risks that have helped foster an infrastructure that promotes innovation, not just in Silicon Valley but in many other growing places around the country.
Here, however, is a straightforward way for the Federal government to spark local business activity throughout most of the nation, help local governments reduce operating costs (SAVE MONEY!) while providing better public services (warmer pools at lower cost), foster improved infrastructure for renewable energy projects throughout the nation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create jobs.
In February 2007, Earth Pledge and the nonprofit Green Roofs for Healthy Cities received a $300,000 grant from the Home Depot Foundation to foster green infrastructure in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and other cities. "We're focused on developing smart tools [for policy makers and developers]," says Hoffman.
As said in the Introduction, Dutch initiatives on regional heat infrastructures were the inspiration to a general legal governance typology, with an eye on fostering such infrastructure development.
In so doing, P3G has become key in fostering research infrastructures to facilitate transition to the clinic.
She worked to foster digital research infrastructure and supported new information services, such as research data management, scholarly publishing, and copyright advising.
