Day archives: April 13th, 2011

New GAO Reports: Coast Guard, Corrosion Prevention, Medical Devices, Missile Defense, Public Health Preparedness, Transportation Worker IDs

Coast Guard: Observations on Acquisition Management and Efforts to Reassess the Deepwater Program, GAO-11-535T, April 13, 2011 Coast Guard: Opportunities Exist to Further Improve Acquisition Management Capabilities, GAO-11-480, April 13, 2011 Defense Management: The Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2012 Corrosion Prevention and Control Budget Request, GAO-11-490R, April 13, 2011 Medical Devices: FDA’s Premarket Review …

Subjects: Government Documents

Kaiser Foundation Data Note Explores Digital Divide and Access to Health Information Online

“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for a number of web-based initiatives, including development of the website healthcare.gov which provides a variety of health information and helps individuals find coverage options. Therefore, understanding the level and quality of Internet access among those groups most likely to benefit from reform, such as the uninsured, those with …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet

PBS: Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise

Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise: “Storyful is a social media news tool created by journalists that finds the most relevant, real and interesting video, tweets and posts coming from people in the middle of events around the world. A team of journalists work with Storyful’s “behind-the-scenes” software to find, verify …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Federal Reserve issues enforcement actions related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing, foreclosure processing

“The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing. These deficiencies represent significant and pervasive compliance failures and unsafe and unsound practices at these institutions. The Board is taking these …

Subjects: Government Documents

Obama's Deficit Speech (Transcript)

President Obama’s speech, “The Country We Believe In,” at George Washington University, as prepared for delivery, April 13, 2011. “So here’s the truth. Around two-thirds of our budget is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and national security. Programs like unemployment insurance, student loans, veterans’ benefits, and tax credits for working families take up another …

Subjects: Government Documents

FTC Testifies on Protecting Social Security Numbers; Millions of Consumers are Victims of Identity Theft Each Year

“The Federal Trade Commission today told a House subcommittee that millions of consumers are victims of identity theft each year at a cost of billion of dollars and countless hours of consumers time to repair the damage. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committees Social Security Subcommittee, the agency said helping protect consumers …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, ID Theft, Privacy

Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools

“A new Freedom House report found that while the majority of circumvention tools used to evade government censorship online perform similarly well, the country in which they are used and the nature of the censorship dictate their effectiveness. No one tool provides a silver bullet for security as governments become more sophisticated in filtering content …

Subjects: Censorship, Free Speech, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Publication of Joint Study on Feasibility of Mandating Algorithmic Descriptions for Derivatives

“the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (collectively Commissions) delivered to Congress a joint staff study on the the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardized computer-readable algorithmic descriptions which may be used to describe complex and standardized financial derivatives. See Title VII, Sec. 719(b) of Dodd-Frank. Based on the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

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