The onestop shop, as they call it. And the government above and beyond that is setting up a fund, a guarantee fund to assist these small and Mediumsized Enterprises of the private sector to get going and to grow strong this guarantee fund, we hope, that will help the young particularly who are entrepreneurs who have something to give, who are interested in doing something to get the necessary loans from lending institutions under the overall guarantee fund that the government is now offering to that end. Let me say a word about our external partners. The borders of republic of congo are wide open, and we have seen how Business Partners have come to us from very far away, as far away as australia, certainly europe, the United States and are active in various sectors of our economy, and we are all in favor of that. Were very pleased to see it because this will spur the development of our smes, but also, certainly, will redound to the benefit of our Larger Companies and the sectors of oil
All politics is local. So it is not the ideological economic situation. It is difficult to make sure governments advice. Because they can be a politically very, very painful process. And no wonder in india it took election and very powerful, very determined Prime Minister to make progress recently. In nigeria is a bit political. So i dont think, i dont think theres a very clear understanding, a very clear consensus on it. Im not aware of one single government which will save no, no, no. We definitely think is a good idea. It is just that the Prime Ministers and finance ministers are looking for the political tactics to do that. And again if you post that come in this country talk about a very substantial proportion of the economically average person to you should not be surprised it is a couple good process but i do think they have made progress. I think i wouldnt characterize it as a failing. If i could you share an anecdote empty chair at the National Press club theres a meeting with
Edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and left. Applause [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second installment of our thrilling First Ever National Constitution Center bill of rights book fair. For those of you who are joining us for the first time on cspan let me introduce this great event briefly one more time. Im jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the National Constitution center, which, as our audience knows is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And this book festival is part of a daylong celebration, today, december 15, bill of rights day which is the 225th 225th anniversary of the proposal of the bill of rights. Of the new Exhibit Opening at the Constitution Center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. And this was one of the copies that George Washington sent to the states on october 2, 1789. Were displaying it with ra
Viable in the philippines. Again, human behavior. Its taken them ten years to pass the Renewable Energy act. Its taken them another five years. Human behavior effects this. And i think theres a lot of opportunities where asia can do better. Biofuels, and i call this more efficient use of coal. When i was in charge of the clean energy program, i got hammered i used to get hammered all the time by grease peace, because it was called the asian dams and bridges bank and we finance a lot of coal, they say its changed. But they use to hammer us all the time and say, no, you cant use clean coal because youre whitewashing the problem. Theres no such thing as clean coal. Coal is dirty. And so we in the peace treaty we decided that whenever we talk about clean coal, supposed to call it more efficient use of coal. When i say more efficient use of coal, i mean ccs. And we have some funding from the ccs institute. And weve been working in india, china, vietnam and chio on the for ccs. And weve been
Peter slen and our guest this week on the communicators is tj kennedy, acting executive director of firstnet. Mr. Kennedy, welcome, and what exactly is firstnet . T. J. Kennedy it is the first six the First Responder network authority. It is similar to what people use today with smartphones and having the ability to share voice and data, but doing it in a critical way that will support paramedics every day to do their job. Peter is there an issue with First Responders where they need their own network echo own network . T. J. Kennedy one thing that happens in big emergencies is that networks can often get caught, and those who need it most, Public Safety, dont always have the ability to get a signal when they need it. It has also relied for a long time on Radio Systems, and they serve a great focus great purpose. They are focused on voice technology. As you know, we are leveraging of what led leveraging what broadband can do. If you were able to leverage broadband for Public Safety the