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The Future of Higher Education, by Janna Anderson, Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie. July 27, 2012 “For a millennium, universities have been considered the main societal hub for knowledge and learning. And for a millennium, the basic structures of how universities produce and disseminate knowledge and evaluate students have survived intact through the sweeping societal …
“A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class, finds that the 600 cities making the largest contribution to a higher global GDPthe City 600will generate nearly 65 percent of world economic growth by 2025. However, the most dramatic story within the City 600 involves just …
Responding to AIDS at Home & Abroad: How the U.S. and Other High Income Countries Compare, July 2012, by Mike Isbell – consultant, Jen Kates and Josh Michaud, Kaiser Family Foundation “This report examines the United States’ response to HIV over the last 30 years compared to that of other high-income countries. The report compares …
Big Data: “Experts say new forms of information analysis will help people be more nimble and adaptive, but worry over humans capacity to understand and use these new tools well Tech experts believe the vast quantities of data that humans and machines will be creating by the year 2020 could enhance productivity, improve organizational transparency, …
Prudential’s 2012-2013 Research Study, Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women, reveals that while women are more in control of their finances than ever, they are facing significant challenges with financial decision making. For the first time, the study gauges not only women’s financial attitudes but men’s as well, seeking to identify key ways in which …
Via Graham Greenleaf: “AustLII will today launch the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library. This is the first version of the Library, containing over 220,000 searchable documents from before 1900, from the seven Australasian colonies (including New Zealand). It is being developed in conjunction with NZLII. Development of further databases is underway and will expand the …
HIV/AIDS: The State of the Epidemic After 3 Decades. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. Original data and detailed source information are available here. “This month’s Visualizing Health Policy takes a look at the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic after 3 decades, including global estimates of HIV prevalence in 2009 and how the number of people …
“IT powers todays enterprises, which is particularly true for the worlds most data-intensive industries. Organizations in these highly specialized industries increasingly require focused IT solutions, including those developed specifically for their industry, to meet their most pressing business challenges, manage and extract insight from ever-growing data volumes, improve customer service, and, most importantly, capitalize on …
News release: “Smart grid deployments are creating exponentially more data for utilities and giving them access to information theyve never had before. Accessing, analyzing, managing, and delivering this information to optimize business operations and enhance customer relationships is proving to be a daunting task. Somewhere in this data deluge lies the path to …
“The government has announced that it will make publicly funded scientific research available for anyone to read for free, accepting recommendations in a report on open access by Dame Janet Finch. This will likely see a major increase in the number of taxpayer-funded research papers freely available to the public…Science Minister David Willetts said: Removing …
Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012 Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and …
Reporting Manual on HIV/AIDS: “This reporting guide is designed for journalists who are covering the global epidemic for the first time and for those who have covered it previously. The Kaiser Family Foundation undertook this project as part of its continuing commitment to supporting good journalism and to combating HIV/AIDS through public education and awareness. …
