Day archives: October 20th, 2010

New GAO Reports: Intragovernmental Revolving Funds, Recovery Act, SBA's Microloan Program

Intragovernmental Revolving Funds: NIST’s Interagency Agreements and Workload Require Management Attention, GAO-11-41, October 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities Exist to Increase the Public’s Understanding of Recipient Reporting on HUD Programs, GAO-10-966, September 30, 2010 Participants in SBA’s Microloan Program Could Provide Additional Information to Enhance the Public’s Understanding of Recovery Act Fund Uses and Expected …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy

A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy, October 2010. Our predecessors grappled with the brutal certainties of the Cold War with an existential danger that was clear and present, with Soviet armies arrayed across half of Europe and the constant threat of nuclear confrontation between the superpowers. Today, Britain …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents

Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review

Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review, October 2010 “This Strategic Defence and Security Review is long overdue. It is the first time that a UK government has taken decisions on its defence, security, intelligence, resilience, development and foreign affairs capabilities in the round. It sets out the ways …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FTC Testifies on the Rights of Employees Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) imposes requirements on Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs) – which include the three major credit bureaus – and on employers that use the information to ensure that sensitive consumer report information is used with fairness, impartiality, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft, Privacy

NYCLU Settlement Ends Restriction on Photography Outside Federal Courthouses

News release: “In settling a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the federal government [October 18, 2010] recognized the publics right to take photographs and record videos in public spaces outside federal courthouses throughout the nation. The settlement comes after the NYCLU sued the federal government in April on behalf of a …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Legal Research

Study: Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636. “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Today's Workers

Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Todays Workers, Employee Benefit Research Institute, October 2010, Vol. 31, No. 10: “Earlier this year, EBRI updated its Retirement Security Projection Model1 and determined that the overall retirement income adequacy for households currently ages 3662 had substantially improved since 2003 (VanDerhei and Copeland, 2010). Almost one-half of Baby Boomers2 and Gen …

Subjects: Government Documents

UN Conference on Trade and Development launches UNCTADstat, new harmonized statistical database

“On 20 October 2010, celebration of the World Statistics Day, UNCTAD will launch UNCTADstat, its new data dissemination platform. All of UNCTAD´s online statistical databases, the Handbook of Statistics, the commodity prices and price indices, the Foreign Direct Investment statistics, and the Global databank on world trade in creative products have been harmonized and integrated …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors

State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors, Human Rights First, September 2010 “On September 16, 2007, Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe) private security contractors working for the U.S. Department of State killed 17 unarmed civilians and wounded 24 more in an unprovoked incident in Baghdads …

Subjects: Government Documents

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