Ocean energy has huge potential, but there are major interdisciplinary problems to be overcome regarding technology, cost reduction, investment, environmental impact, governance, and so forth.
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives is raising pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around the world.
This year, two additional categories — Changemakers and Best for the Long Term — are recognized for making the most positive change in their B Impact Assessment over time and earning a top score in impact governance, respectively.
Beyond the governance group, there are additional stakeholders who impact governance, beginning with the students.
And as candidates become sitting officials, it remains to be seen how these new modes of direct engagement will transcend being methods of campaign outreach and actually impact governance.
Nanjira is a researcher, policy analyst and advocacy strategist interested in and working on understanding the unfolding impacts of Information and Communication Technology, or ICT, adoption and how those impact governance, innovation, entrepreneurship and societal culture, with a keen focus on gender implications.
While biobanks with exclusively pediatric or postmortem specimens (9% and 2% of our surveyed biobanks, respectively) typically adopt particular guidelines for human subjects protections, it is less clear how these specimens might impact governance in mixed-source collections.
Chinese national fiscal reforms and the transfer of power from the central government to local governments impact the governance of inland waterway transport (IWT).
"This evaluation was conducted by a paid medical consultant and does not answer the question of whether Sumner Redstone had sufficient capacity to make complex decisions impacting the governance of billion-dollar publicly-held corporations, nor does it acknowledge that undue influence was exercised to manipulate his views," Fagen said.
It is possible to measure the impact of governance on the number of children in school and on maternal mortality.
