Monthly archives: April, 2010

Letter Report for the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy

“This report [by the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks; National Research Council] is the first phase of a larger project to conduct a broad, multidisciplinary examination of deterrence strategies and their possible utility to the U.S. government in its policies toward preventing cyberattacks. This first phase identifies the key issues and questions that merit examination. The …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, PC Security

Brookings Governance Study: Saving Money Through Cloud Computing

Saving Money Through Cloud Computing, Darrell M. West, April 7, 2010: “The U.S. federal government spends nearly $76 billion each year on information technology, and $20 billion of that is devoted to hardware, software, and file servers (Alford and Morton, 2009). Traditionally, computing services have been delivered through desktops or laptops operated by proprietary software. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, PC Security

Undergraduate Paper Grading – Outsourced to Asia

The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Virtual-TA, a service of a company called EduMetry Inc., took over. The goal of the service is to relieve professors and teaching assistants of a traditional and sometimes tiresome taskand even, the company says, to do it better than TA’s can. The graders working for EduMetry, based in a Virginia …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

EPA OIG: Need Continues for a Strategic Plan to Protect Childrens Health

EPA OIG Evaluation: Need Continues for a Strategic Plan to Protect Childrens Health, Report No. 10-P-0095, April 5, 2010 “Five years after providing Office of Childrens Health Protection (OCHP) with recommendations related to the strategic and annual planning processes, agreed-to corrective actions have not been completed. According to OCHP, which is now the Office of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

TRAC: Despite Rising Deficits, IRS Audits of the Largest and Richest Corporations Decline

“Despite a growing federal deficit, IRS audit efforts aimed at the nation’s largest corporations have precipitously declined in the last few years and now are at an all time low, according to the analysis of agency data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Among corporations reporting assets of $250 million or more, the IRS …

Subjects: Government Documents

Holocaust Days of Remembrance, April 1118, 2010

“The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nations annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year Holocaust Remembrance Day is Sunday, April 11. The Museum designated Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters as the theme …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents

DOT and States Team Up to Limit Accidents Caused by Texting While Driving

New release: “As part of its continuing effort to combat distracted driving, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is kicking off pilot programs in Hartford, Connecticut and Syracuse, New York to test whether increased law enforcement efforts can get distracted drivers to put down their cell phones and …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

DOD: Nuclear Posture Review Report, April 2010

DOD: Nuclear Posture Review Report (NPR), April 2010: “The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) outlines the Administrations approach to promoting the Presidents agenda for reducing nuclear dangers and pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, while simultaneously advancing broader U.S. security interests. The NPR reflects the Presidents national security priorities and the supporting …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

BLS Changes Foreign Labor Statistics to International Labor Comparisons

Charting International Comparisons of Annual Labor Force Statistics, 2008 – February 2010 – Bureau of Labor Statistics, Division of International Labor Comparisons: “These charts present comparative trends of unemployment, employment, labor force, and population for 10 countries. The data have been adjusted for comparability. All data are based on International Comparisons of Annual Labor Force …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Kaiser Family Foundation: Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds

News release: “With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: The Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement programs

Analyzing the First Years of the Click It or Ticket Mobilizations “The Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement programs conducted between 2000 and 2006 were an important factor in increasing seat belt use nationwide and in virtually all States. This was the case for observed belt use, belt use in fatalities, and self-reported seat …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

No EU-US Agreement on Transfer of EU Financial Data to US or Deployment of Airport Body Scanners

Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “A meeting between top United States counter-terrorism officials and European counterparts ended in Madrid today with no agreement to restart a program that gave the US access to European financial data. The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program operated in …

Subjects: E-Government, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy

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