"provide platforms" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about offering a service or space for something to happen, such as a discussion or exchange of ideas. For example, "The government's goal is to provide platforms for citizens to communicate their concerns to local officials."
The flowers are, therefore, usually erect and provide platforms for landing.
Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo also provide platforms for publishing an e-book and selling it at their stores.
"Programmers have a responsibility to program extra women and to provide platforms if they care about diversity in the arts," she says.
Big technology firms like Amazon and Google, which provide platforms to users of various kinds, increasingly find themselves fending off criticism in just these sorts of cases.Arguments over "net neutrality" touch upon related issues.
We need to provide platforms for the development of multinational, multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral intellectual projects that generate the high level and scarce skills required to address development in our country and on the continent, while we foster intellectual communities and promote sustainable social and economic development in a globally competitive environment.
BBC 6 Music's remit was simple and unfashionably instinctive, to my open ears: to bring together knowledgeable presenters full of enthusiasm about music; to provide platforms for up-and-coming bands; and to make good use of the corporation's astonishing archive.
From the earliest days of the Web until around the time of Mr. Shirky's manifesto, the expectation was that a handful of companies would provide platforms — or perhaps a single ubiquitous platform — that would enable Web users to pay a penny, a dime or a dollar for a bit of content such as a newspaper article, a comic strip or a research report.
After much debate and a reappraisal of my own stance, I have concluded that we can only look to what internet and mobile users are doing or want to do, and then note how their actions drive technologists to provide platforms for them.
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"We want to solve transportation problems in places where are no roads or places where roads are impassable – Haiti, Bhutan, New York or Los Angeles," Paola Santana, the firm's chief regulatory officer, said from Palo Alto She said company can not only supply a fleet of environmentally-friendly vehicles, but would also provide platforms for them to take off and land from.
His informal management style he likes to wander about in a jumper has probably helped too.Since Chrysler has little of its own to offer in small cars, it needs Fiat to provide platforms such as Alfa Romeo's Giulietta and its excellent small-engine technology to comply with America's increasingly strict fuel-economy standards.
