Day archives: August 7th, 2015

Across Racial Lines, More Say Nation Needs to Make Changes to Achieve Racial Equality

Pew Report – “Over the past year, there has been a substantial rise in the share of Americans — across racial and ethnic groups — who say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites, and a growing number of Americans view racism as a big problem in society. …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Federal CIO Council releases open data prioritization toolkit

[August 4, 2015] “the Federal CIO Council’s Innovation Committee is releasing the Open Data Prioritization Toolkit. The toolkit assists agencies with evaluating and prioritizing datasets for release. It consists of tools, workbooks, and resources to help agencies evaluate datasets on the criteria of value, cost, and risk. Included in each criteria are questions agencies can …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Commentary – The ADA at 25: Important Gains, but Gaps Remain

Follow up to previous posting – Americans with Disabilities Act – 25th Anniversary – via Knowledge@Wharton – “But the gains are less than desired in employment opportunities for people with disabilities, according to Frieden. “The ADA wasn’t intended to be an affirmative action law, so I am not surprised that companies haven’t been as aggressive …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Key Findings from Global State of API Security Survey 2015

Akana Report (reg reqd) – “The front lines of information security risk management evolve in parallel with the dominant technologies in common use.  The emergence of the Web brought Web-based threats and resulting countermeasures.   The rise of SQL databases brought SQL injection and its mitigations.  Now, we have the increasing usage and business importance of …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet