Monthly archives: December, 2010

New GAO Reports: Federal Land Management, Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Public Health Information Technology, Medicaid Outpatient Prescription Drugs

Federal Lands: Adopting a Formal, Risk-Based Approach Could Help Land Management Agencies Better Manage Their Law Enforcement Resources, GAO-11-144, December 17, 2010 Neighborhood Stabilization Program: HUD and Grantees Are Taking Actions to Ensure Program Compliance but Data on Program Outputs Could be Improved, GAO-11-48, December 17, 2010 Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Google: When one translation just isnt enough

Google Translate Blog: “When you come to Google Translate, we always do our best to give you the most accurate translation our system can produce. However, sometimes translation can be pretty tough. Language is full of ambiguities and our system has to do its best to make the right choices. So why choose? Weve launched …

Subjects: Search Engines

New Google Books Visualization Tool: Ngram Viewer

Inside Google Books: “The Ngram Viewer lets you graph and compare phrases from these datasets over time, showing how their usage has waxed and waned over the years. One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Economist: An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earths woodlands

The Economist: “Peru’s forests cover 72m hectares of the country (278,000 square miles). That is three times the area of Britain. And Peru intends to hold on to its greenery. In 2000 its deforestation rate was 250,000 hectares a year. By 2005 that figure was down to 150,000. This year, according to Antonio Brack Egg, …

Subjects: Government Documents

Pew: Generations 2010 – Rise in Email Use, Decline in Blogging

Generations 2010, Kathryn Zickuhr, Web Coordinator, 12/16/2010 “There are still notable differences by generation in online activities, but the dominance of the Millennial generation that we documented in our first Generations report in 2009 has slipped in many activities. Milliennials, those ages 18-33, remain more likely to access the internet wirelessly with a laptop or …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce, E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management

Leading Through Civilian Power -The First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review

Leading Through Civilian Power – The First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, December 2010 [Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton]…last year, I announced a sweeping review of diplomacy and development, the core missions of the State Department and USAID respectively. We consulted hundreds of people throughout the U.S. government and around the world. This report, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Children and Adolescents: United States, 2005-2008

Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Children and Adolescents: United States, 20052008, Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D.; Molly M. Lamb, Ph.D.; Margaret D. Carroll, M.S.P.H.; and Katherine M. Flegal, Ph.D. CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Brief No. 51 December 2010, In 20072008 almost 17% of children and adolescents aged 219 years were obese. Childhood …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Commerce Department Unveils Policy Framework for Protecting Consumer Privacy Online While Supporting Innovation

News release: “The Department of Commerce today issued a report detailing initial policy recommendations aimed at promoting consumer privacy online while ensuring the Internet remains a platform that spurs innovation, job creation, and economic growth. The report outlines a dynamic framework to increase protection of consumers commercial data and support innovation and evolving technology. The …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

11.7 Million Persons Reported Identity Theft Victimization in 2008

News release: “An estimated 11.7 million persons, representing five percent of all persons age 16 or older in the United States, were victims of identity theft during the two years prior to being surveyed in 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The financial losses due to the identity theft totaled more than …

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

HHS Issues New Initiative on Multiple Chronic Conditions

“On December 14, HHS issued its new Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions ― an innovative, private-public sector collaboration to coordinate responses to a growing challenge. Report: Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Strategic Framework Press release: HHS issues new strategic framework on multiple chronic conditions Newsletter article for stakeholders: The Challenge of Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

White Paper: How the cloud will help global organizations take advantage of the economic recovery

Rising to the Challenge: “This independent report was commissioned by Savvis and conducted by Vanson Bourne in April 2010. The research surveyed CIOs, IT Directors and Heads of IT in the U.S., U.K. and Singapore from medium to large enterprises and the public sector…Our 2010 survey findings revealed that a large percentage of organizations are …

Subjects: Internet

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Trust for America’s Health Issue Report: Issue Report – Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, December 2010 “There is an emergency for emergency health preparedness in the United States. The severe budget cuts by federal, state, and local governments are leaving public health departments understaffed …

Subjects: Government Documents

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