departments are fulfilling their social and environmental obligations. The purpose of this study is to identify what factors influence Australian State government departments in their reporting of social and environmental information. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Public Sector Supplement (2005) document is used as the globally accepted benchmark for sustainability reporting. Design Methodology: This study is based on a content analysis of fifty major state government departments 2010 annual reports
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GRI G3 and G3.1 Update – Comparison Sheet Principles for Defining Report Content KEY TO UPDATES STAKEHOLDER INCLUSIVENESS Principles for Ensuring Report Quality The report should reflect positive and negative aspects of the organization’s performance to enable a reasoned assessment of overall performance. BAL ANCE COMPAR ABILIT Y TIMELINESS Reporting occurs on a regular schedule and information is available in time for stakeholders to make informed decisions. CL ARIT Y Information should be
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Table of contents Executive summary i 1. Introduction 1 2. Motivation of publishing sustainability report 1 3. Key features of sustainability report 2 3.1 Completeness 2 3.2 Transparency 2 3.3 Comparability 2 4. Evaluation 3 4.1 Completeness 3 4.2 Transparency
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Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications: Bridging Technology Shelia S Bradley IT3210 Web Systems and Technologies Dr. Azad Ali 26 January 2014 Web Accessibility Initiative’s Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) is a technical guide published by the World Wide Web that is typically supposed to make web content and web applications more accessible by people with disabilities. It acts as a bridge between the web content and applications and technology
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a healthy, productive, comfortable environment for students and staff has been around for some time. But for many educators, green schools have remained more good intention than proven approach, a huge risk that few school leaders could--or would--take. According to Kristen Heinen, assistant director of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), the idea of green building was unknown to most educators. However, public awareness and interest have grown significantly due to education campaigns
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Usability Assignment on Web Accessibility Wendell Robinson Capella University Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) need to be the concern of all web developer. Many people like myself can’t imagine their life without the internet it is where we get our world and local news, email, entertainment, etc. If a developer makes his website to be more accessible he ensure that people with disabilities can access his website just everyone else. The
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Running Head: WEB ACCESSIBILITY Web Accessibility Week Two Individual [Place Name Here] University of Phoenix March 21, 2011 Web accessibility is for individuals with disabilities. This allows these individuals to use the web. Web accessibility helps people with disabilities to perceive, understand navigate and interact with the web. This also allows these people to contribute to the web. Web accessibility can benefit many individuals but benefits the elderly more due to
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allowed to alter and change the original software as much as they like. This in turn will produce higher quality software with improved features. For the open-source programs to be reliable, some sort of licenses has been approved by Open Source Initiative (OSI) which is a “non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the open-source definition for the good of the community, especially through the OSI Certified Open-source software certification mark and program.” HISTORY OF OPEN-SOURCE
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The Troop Leading Procedures are 8 steps, which take place by the command to prepare his or her soldiers for the mission being given. These steps will better prepare the element for its mission. These steps are best explained in FM 3-21.8 starting on 1-29 of the Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad handbook. The steps discussed in this FM and this essay are as follows; Receive the mission, Issue a warning order (WARNO), Make a tentative plan, Initiate movement, Conduct Reconnaissance, Complete the plan
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has been one of the most exigent problems that humans have encountered. Exponential growth of population along with financial crisis generated a chronic food shortage all around the globe. Despite these adversities, Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, saved billions of lives by introducing an exceptionally vital genetically modified organism (GMO). Not only had this eminent GMO diminished suffering from privation, its influences have been shown through social and political advancements
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