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Stop Starving Scale: Unlocking the Potential of Global NGOs – by Jeri Eckhart Queenan, Jacob Allen, and Jari Tuomala, April 15, 2013 “Generous funders have fueled the spectacular growth of global NGOs in recent years. But the money comes with strings that thwart these organizations ability to create the platforms for scale needed to solve …
2013 Financial Services Industry Compliance Benchmark Study “Beginning in mid-December 2012,Compliance 360 conducted a survey among compliance professionals in the Financial Services industry, over a six week period. Respondents were asked questions relating to budget and priority areas for their compliance departments in 2013. Approximately 121 compliance professionals responded to the survey, representing a variety …
“The publics knowledge of science and technology varies widely across a range of questions on current topics and basic scientific concepts, according to a new quiz by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine. Click here to take the quiz yourself before reviewing the answers. About eight-in-ten Americans (83%) identify ultraviolet as the type of …
“Last year, 1.75 billion phones were sold to consumers around the world. By the end of 2013, another 240 million tablets and 207 million PCs will be produced and shipped globally. Making all those fun gizmos has a huge environmental cost. Repair is better than recycling. Way better. Repairing and upgrading extends the life of …
“The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of Americas libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of Americas heritage, to the efforts and data of …
Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, April 18, 2013 “This year, in both content and organization, this statement illustrates how quickly and radically the worldand our threat environmentare changing. This environment is demanding reevaluations of the way we do business, expanding our analytic envelope, and altering …
“Gallup in 1997 completed its first meta-analysis — or study of many studies — on employee engagement using data from 1,135 business units. The central question we wanted to answer was whether workplace conditions correlate with business outcomes such as profit, productivity, customer perceptions of service, and employee retention. We just completed our eighth iteration …
“Imagine riding a bike 180 miles from Charlotte, N.C., to North Myrtle Beach, S.C., in three days. Now, imagine pedaling that distance only using your arms or without sight. This is what a group of extraordinary cyclists set out to do each spring. Cycle to the Sea is a unique ride that raises funds and …
Experian reveals a quarter of time online is spent on social networking: London, 16 April 2013 “Insights from Experian, the global information services company, reveals that if the time spent on the Internet was distilled into an hour then a quarter of it would be spent on social networking and forums across UK, US …
Big Data: Growing pressure on global storage by data created on Social Networking Sites, Dr. Riyazuddin Qureshi, Yahya Mohammad AlManna & Dr Anwar Pasha Deshmukh. “World-wide business organizations irrespective of their sizes, non-profit organizations and government agencies are witnessing Tsunami of data. Data creation is rewriting its record every day. In 2010; total data generated …
“This report on Big Data is the first MeriTalk Beacon, a new series of reports designed to shed light and provide direction on far reaching issues in government and technology. Since Beacons are designed to tackle broad concepts, each Beacon report relies on insight from a small number of big thinkers in the topic area. …
Global University Rankings and Their Impact II, published by the European University Association “New multi-indicator tools for profiling, classifying or benchmarking higher education institutions offered by the rankings providers are proliferating. These increase the pressure on and the risk of overburdening universities, obliged to collect ever more data in order to maintain as high a …
