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Press Release and Highlights: “The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans conducted by the Center for the Digital Future found that almost half of Internet users age 16 and older — 48 percent — are worried about companies checking their actions on the Internet. By comparison, the new question for the …
United Nations General Assembly: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, May 16, 2011 “This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the …
24% of internet users have made phone calls online, Lee Rainie, Director, May 30, 2011 “After years of modest activity, online phone calling has taken off as 24% of online Americans say have placed calls using the internet A quarter of American adult internet users (24%) have placed phone calls online. That amounts to 19% …
WSJ: “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force. The Pentagon’s first formal cyber strategy, unclassified portions of which are expected to become public next month, represents …
G8 Summit of Deauville – May 26-27, 2011: “We discussed new issues such as the Internet which are essential to our societies, economies and growth. For citizens, the Internet is a unique information and education tool, and thus helps to promote freedom, democracy and human rights. The Internet facilitates new forms of business and promotes …
Federal Computer Week: “NASA is the first federal agency to venture into creating an aggregation network on the SlideShare Web platform, officials announced May 16. The NASA Universe network that started May 16 on SlideShare provides links to the agencys videos, slide presentations and other documents shared from SlideShare channels sponsored by NASA headquarters and …
Via WSJ: “This year, the government will spend $80 billion on IT, at agencies as varied as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, and on non-classified sections of the US Department of Defense [see Federal Cloud Computing Strategy Published]. As slices of government spending go, this is not huge, …
Via PBS FRONTLINE: “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become internationally recognized since the publication last year of thousands of secret U.S. documents. But Bradley Manning, the Army private alleged to have provided the documents, remains largely a mystery. Who is Bradley Manning? How did he come into contact with a trove of secrets and, allegedly, …
“New McKinsey research into the Internet economies of the G-8 nations as well as Brazil, China, India, South Korea, and Sweden finds that the web accounts for a significant and growing portion of global GDP. Indeed, if measured as a sector, Internet-related consumption and expenditure is now bigger than agriculture or energy. On average, the …
News release: “The latest Broadband Progress Report to Congress from the Federal Communications Commission reveals that approximately 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities located in every region of the country, are denied access to the jobs and economic opportunity made possible by broadband. While the infrastructure of high-speed Internet is unavailable to those Americans, …
Via LLRX: “Link Rot” and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2011 Analysis by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group – Sarah Rhodes describes and documents the work of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group’s fourth annual investigation of link rot among the original URLs for online law and policy-related materials archived though the group’s efforts. Link …
Roadmap for the Digital City – Achieving New York City’s Digital Future – The City of New York, May 2011 “New York City is one of the worlds leading digital metropolises. As Part I: State of the Digital City illustrates, New York City government engages over 25 million people a year through more than 200 …
