Day archives: January 30th, 2011

White House: Jeff Zients Will Lead Reorganization of Federal Government

White House Blog: “As the President said in the State of the Union address, winning the future will take doing what we can do now to prepare America to compete in the global economy for decades to come. That means out-educating, out-innovating, and out-building our competition; restoring fiscal responsibility to remove the burden of deficits …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

SIGIR January 2011: Quarterly Report To Congress

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) January 2011: Quarterly Report To Congress “Over the next 11 months the nature of the U.S. Presence in Iraq will fundamentally alter, with certain reconstruction elements either ceasing operations or transitioning responsibilities to other agencies. By September, the final Provincial Reconstruction Teams are slated to close as two …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Report: European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) 2010

“Privacy International, EPIC, and the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMSC) released European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) 2010, a report investigating the scope of privacy and data protection laws in Europe. The study includes 33 individual reports covering issues from privacy enforcement to ID cards, biometrics, and data-sharing and video surveillance The study …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

EIA: Natural Gas Monthly and Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report

Natural Gas Monthly — Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural and supplemental gas production, supply, consumption, disposition, storage, imports, exports, and prices in the United States. (Data reported through November 2010.) Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report — Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

USDA Questions and Answers: Roundup Ready Alfalfa Deregulation

Factsheet, January 2011: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available two decision-making documents related to the regulation of alfalfa that has been genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide commercially known as Roundup. The first is a determination of non regulated status for Roundup ready alfalfa. This determination, based on a thorough plant …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Google Transliteration

“Google Transliteration allows you to type phonetically using Roman characters. Simply type a word the way it sounds in English and Google Transliteration will convert it to its local script. We currently support 24 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, …

Subjects: Search Engines

Report: The Global “Go-To Think Tanks” 2010

The Global “Go-To Think Tanks” 2010 – The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations In The World, James G. McGann, Ph.D. Director “The 2010 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings marks the fourth edition of what has now become an annual report. The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the International Relations Program, University of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

SEC Publishes Staff Study on Investor Access to Information About Investment Professionals

News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has published a staff study recommending steps to help investors better access information about investment professionals. The recommendations of the study, which was required by Section 919B of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, must be implemented within 18 months after the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New York Federal Reserve Bank: A Strategy for the 2011 Economic Recovery

A Strategy for the 2011 Economic Recovery, January 28, 2011, [See also related charts in PDF] – Joseph S. Tracy, Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York “We should keep in mind, though, that there is considerable uncertainty associated with every economic forecast. There are both upside and downside risks that could cause …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents