What it means is ad hoc groups spanning governments, multilateral organisations, business, charities and NGOs which try to deal with a particular problem outside the gridlocked processes of global governance.
For three telemovies a stubbly wrong-side-of-the-bed Pearce has peeled the onion of numerous stinky criminal plots, from schemes spanning government-toppling conspiracies to one involving copping a slug in the gut from Vince Colosimo in once-again-they-hired-me-to-play-a-drug-dealer mode.
This paper presents lessons learned from the engineering part of the program ('the project'), spanning government agencies, academic institutions, and academia.
PhoneFactor was founded in 2001, and is used in thousands of organizations spanning government, healthcare, banking, and other enterprise and website applications.
The average life span of governments in Estonia between 1919 and 1933 was 8 months and 20 days.
This is longer than the 30-year span the government had wanted, but less than the 35 years pushed by industry.
In this short span the government has made some unpalatable decisions, and it began to earn cautious international respect for tackling an Augean task.
The firm has customers at more than 55,000 sites, which span business, government and higher education.
It's one of the broadest categories of learning in the UK, spanning two government departments and, excluding schools, affecting 4.2 million students in England alone.
Here's a flavour: He has a breadth of experience few central bankers can boast, spanning academia, government, the private sector and regulatory bodies.
