Canada's new government invests $200M in the fight against the mountain pine beetle
The Government of Canada today announced measures to fight the mountain pine beetle and address its impacts on communities and forests in British Columbia. The Federal Mountain Pine Beetle Program will provide $200 million to minimize the consequences of the beetle infestation and assist in efforts to slow the infestation's eastward spread. "This outbreak is a major threat to the economy a...Entrepreneurs Dont RequireVenture capital, high-tech or government programs
RACINE -- Developing entrepreneurial eco-systems -- where the seeds of start-up and early stage ventures take root and bloom -- does NOT require venture capital, high technologies, and new government programs. It can happen anywhere if three ingredients are brought together, a national expert on entrepreneurial development told an audience here last week. Dr. Erik R. Pages presentation,...Digital Government Summit seeks to bridge the digital divide
Matt Miszewski, CIO for the State of Wisconsin, said the goal of the conference was to develop connections between public and private...Midwest telecom conference to push government cooperation
Bringing together state and national governments will be the focus of the eighth annual The conference, titled "Regional Cooperation and Innovation", focuses on bringing different governments up to speed on recent...State IT leaders make Government Technology's top-25 list
Wisconsin has landed two IT movers and shakers to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 list of Doers, Dreamers and Drivers. State CIO , a Republican from Brookfield, recently w...Human cloning plans get blessing from British government
First Dolly, now human embryos. This weeks announcement out of that Professor Ian Wilmut, who cloned Dolly the sheep, has been granted a license by the British government to clone human embryos is sure to spark fresh hopes among disease sufferers, scientists and advocacy groups for a cure to such diseases as Parkinsons and amyotroph...Northeast Governments Warn Against Andhra Fish
The Indian State Governments of Assam and Tripura have warned people against eating fish// brought in from the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh, saying the long time taken in transit rendered the fish stale and rotten posing serious health hazards. The warning follows a report by the Central Health Research Institute that fish packed with rice husks gets contaminated during the eight...Tanzanian Government Sanctions $20 Million For AIDS Arug
East Africa as an estimated population of 35 million of whom two million people// have been infected with HIV. About 14,000 people die every year from HIV infections an estimated 12% of the country’s children are orphans as they lost their parents due to AIDS. Tanzania has planned to provide free anti-retroviral drugs (drugs which acts against HIV) to 500,000 HIV/AIDS patients within...Government Organisation Proposes Strict Guidelines For SubStandard Medical Devices
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in India has decided to prepare a set of guidelines for uniform action against the manufacture// of not of standard quality (NSQ) medical devices, diagnostic reagents, diagnostic kits etc. The guidelines drawn out would prescribe the exact procedures to be followed and action to be taken against the manufacturers by every state drug controll...