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Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World – Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities, by: David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki, Edward O’Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, Robert E. Hunter. “This research brief summarizes a RAND report that analyzes insurgencies such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq …
Creative Commons and Public.Resource.Org announced [February 11, 2008] that the first revision of a substantial corpus of U.S. federal case law is available for download by developers. The files are all clearly marked with the new Creative Commons CCØ label, indicating that the contents are Works of the United States Government and are thus free …
Pew Hispanic Center: “If current trends continue, immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their descendants will account for 82% of the population growth in the United States during this period, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center. The nation’s racial and ethnic mix will change markedly by mid-century, the projections show, with …
New York Times: Pushing Paper Out the Door, by Hannah Fairfield “A paperless world isnt automatically a boon for the environment, though. While these digital toys reduce dependence on one resource, they increase it on another: energy. Some devices are always plugged in, eating electricity even when not in use, and gobbling huge amounts of …
Audubon Naturalist Society: “Gardeners have long wanted pots made of biogradable and renewable materials. And now, at least for seedling pots, this alternative exists: CowPots, invented by two Connecticut dairy farmers, are durable fiber pots made of cow poo. So far, though, these odorless pots are only available to us online.”
“You’ve heard about global warming with its subsequent impending ecological disasters, but what’s the real story? By connecting you with scientists in the field, current news and visual representations of data from NOAA and NASA, Earth Live will explore climate change and its consequences. The layers that spin across the globe are gathered over the …
“The Committee for Economic Development (CED)…released a new report Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care (94 pages, PDF) that focuses on how to improve health care by giving people more access to information and making the information more responsive to their contributions. The report touches on the entire production system for health …
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper by Oya Y. Rieger, February, 2008. 52 pp. Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Executive Summary: “The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and …
“A joint project of the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Progress & Freedom Foundation tracks more than 30 pieces of federal legislation that seek to protect children online, some of which pose serious threats to free speech. The reports released today summarize and categorize child online safety bills introduced in the 110th Congress, …
Information Economy Report 2007-2008 (386 pages, PDF): “The Information Economy Report 2008 – Science and technology for development: the new paradigm of ICT, analyses the current and potential contribution of information technology to knowledge creation and diffusion. It explores how ICTs help generate innovations that improve the livelihoods of the poor and support enterprise competitiveness. …
“Chinas onerous media restrictions, the erosion of press freedom in African democracies, the criminalization of journalism in central Asia, and the use of vague antistate charges to jail journalists worldwide are among the troubling trends revealed in the new edition of Attacks on the Press.”
Fact Sheet: “The Connectivity Scorecard is a groundbreaking new global information and communications technology (ICT) measure that ranks countries on the approximately 30 indicators of connectivity — including broadband, fixed-line, mobile and computing technologies — that contribute to the enhancement of a countrys social and economic prosperity. The Scorecard was created by Leonard Waverman, professor …
