Day archives: June 4th, 2011

Global Wealth Continues Its Strong Recovery with $9 Trillion Gain, but Pressures on Wealth Managers Persist, Says Study

News release: “Propelled by growth in nearly every region, global wealth continued a solid recovery in 2010, increasing by 8.0 percent, or $9 trillion, to a record of $121.8 trillion.1 That level was about $20 trillion above where it stood just two years prior during the depths of the financial crisis, according to a new …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

GSA's Apps.gov Offers Info and Links to Free Social Media Applications for Government Agencies

Via GSA’s Apps.gov: “Social media apps make it easier to create and distribute content and discuss the things we care about and help us get the job done. Social media includes various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily and share information. Social media includes text, audio, video, images, podcasts, and other multimedia …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Wiki

Newsweek and The Daily Beast Honor 150 Extraordinary Women

Belatedly but nevertheless, here is the Newsweek and The Daily Beast Honor 150 Extraordinary Women: “They are heads of state and heads of household, angry protesters in the city square and sly iconoclasts in remote villages. With a fiery new energy, women are building schools, starting businesses, fighting corruption, harnessing new technologies and breaking down …

Subjects: Civil Liberties

Report – Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics

News release: “A new study has matched future climate change “hotspots” with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin America as well, where in fewer than 40 years, the prospect of shorter, hotter or drier growing seasons could imperil hundreds …

Subjects: Government Documents