Category «Knowledge Management»

New GAO Reports – Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Business Systems, Oil and Gas, USPS

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Actions Needed to Further Improve Management of Hopper Dredging, GAO-14-290: Published: Apr 10, 2014. Publicly Released: May 12, 2014. CLEAR AIR FORCE STATION: Air Force Reviewed Costs and Benefits of Several Options before Deciding to Close the Power Plant, GAO-14-550: Published: May 12, 2014. Publicly Released: May 12, 2014. DEFENSE BUSINESS SYSTEMS: Further Refinements Needed to Guide the …

Subjects: Defense, Energy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Securities Law

Congress Seeking Transparency and Oversight of NSA Collection of Metadata

New York Review of Books – We Kill People Based on Metadata by David Cole [snipped] “Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not include the actual content …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patriot Act, Privacy

Global Survey: What’s creating tension between IT and business leaders?

Via avande: “If the marketing department is making its own decisions about an email marketing service, shouldn’t it also be responsible for ensuring that the chosen technology integrates seamlessly and securely with the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) database? And if problems arise after the marketing team starts using it, is it up to IT …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

U.S. Open Data Action Plan

U.S. Open Data Action Plan, May 9, 2014. “Throughout his Administration, President Obama has articulated a vision of the U.S. Government managing information as a national asset and opening up its data, where possible, as a public good to advance government efficiency, improve accountability, and fuel private sector innovation, scientific discovery, and economic growth. Putting government …

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

The Ups and Downs in Women’s Employment: Shifting Composition or Behavior from 1970 to 2010?

“This paper tracks factors contributing to the ups and downs in women’s employment from 1970 to 2010 using regression decompositions focusing on whether changes are due to shifts in the means (composition of women) or due to shifts in coefficients (inclinations of women to work for pay). Compositional shifts in education exerted a positive effect …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

The Understanding the Brain Portal

“The National Science Foundation’s goal is to enable scientific understanding of the full complexity of the brain, in action and in context, through targeted, cross-disciplinary investments in research, technology, and workforce development. Understanding the Brain activities promise innovative and integrated solutions to challenges in our ability to predict how collective interactions between brain function and our physical and …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

The Last Man at Nuremberg

Via the Atlantic, by Emma Green: The Last Man at Nuremberg The life of 95-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the only living prosecutor from the war-crime trials that followed the Holocaust “Benjamin Ferencz was 27 when the Einsatzgruppen trial began in 1947. There were 22 defendants, all men, all members of the German SS. “One of the counsel has characterized this …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

The Increasing Happiness of Parents

The Increasing Happiness of Parents, Chris M. Herbst and John Ifcher, Working Paper No. 2014-05-SCU-ECON. Economics Department, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. 2014. “Previous research suggests that parents may be less happy than non-parents. We critically assess the extant literature and reexamine the relationship between parental status and happiness using the General Social Survey (N = 42,298) …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Strategic thinking strengthens intellectual capacity

Science Daily: “Strategy-based cognitive training has the potential to enhance cognitive performance and spill over to real-life benefit according to a data-driven perspective article. The research-based perspective highlights cognitive, neural and real-life changes measured in randomized clinical trials that compared a gist-reasoning strategy-training program to memory training in populations ranging from teenagers to healthy older …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Director of National Intelligence Requires Pre-Publication Review of all Info

Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News [snipped] : “All employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are required to obtain authorization before disclosing any intelligence-related information to the public. “All ODNI personnel are required to submit all official and non-official information intended for public release for review,” says ODNI Instruction 80.04 on “Pre-publication Review of Information to …

Subjects: Defense, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New GAO Reports: InfoTech Policies -Best Practices, Management Controls, NASA

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Agencies Need to Establish and Implement Incremental Development Policies, GAO-14-361: Published: May 1, 2014. Publicly Released: May 8, 2014. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Implementing Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve the Management of Investments, GAO-14-596T: Published: May 8, 2014. Publicly Released: May 8, 2014. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: SSA Needs to Address Limitations in Management Controls and Human Capital Planning to Support …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New GAO Reports – Alternative Jet Fuels, DHS, Federal Vehicle Fleets, Information Technology

ALTERNATIVE JET FUELS: Federal Activities Support Development and Usage, but Long-term Commercial Viability Hinges on Market Factors, GAO-14-407: Published: May 7, 2014. Publicly Released: May 7, 2014. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Progress Made; Significant Work Remains in Addressing High-Risk Areas, GAO-14-532T: Published: May 7, 2014. Publicly Released: May 7, 2014. FEDERAL VEHICLE FLEETS: GSA Has Opportunities to Further Encourage Cost Savings for …

Subjects: Defense, Energy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Transportation

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