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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 …
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. …
Wilson, Bart J., Findlay, David W., Meehan, James W., Wellford, Charissa P. and Schurter, Karl, An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for Payday Loans (January 14, 2008). The payday loan industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the consumer financial services market in the United States. The purpose of our study is to …
Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World, Frances C. Moore: “With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at new record highs and global average temperature now some 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the frozen regions of the earth are showing us just how rapidly climate change can take effect. Recent years have seen ice melt accelerate and …
What are Human Rights? Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order, By Mathias Risse, Working Paper Number: RWP08-006. Submitted: 02/01/2008. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. “Why do we have human rights? What ought to be the function of such rights in the global order, and to what extent does this …
Press release: “For most Americans, the value of their Social Security is the biggest accumulation of dollars they will take into retirement. In fact, for two-thirds of recipients over the age of 65, Social Security is more than half of their income during retirement, according to a new report released [January 31, 2008] by the …
“The University of Michigan’s University Library has just put the millionth book from its collection on-line. That’s one million out of the 7.5 million volumes in the library’s current holdings. Digitized materials are made available publicly via the Mirlyn library catalog and MBooks. MBooks provides full text of works that are in the public domain, …
Press release: “The established democracies are accepting flawed and unfair elections for political expediency, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2008. By allowing autocrats to pose as democrats, without demanding they uphold the civil and political rights that make democracy meaningful, the United States, the European Union and other influential democracies …
Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit, Working Paper Version 44: January 27, 2008. “The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to …
A Blueprint for Big Broadband, An EDUCAUSE White Paper by John Windhausen Jr., President, Telepoly Consulting, January 2008. “The United States is facing a crisis in broadband connectivity. The demand for bandwidth is accelerating well beyond the capacity of our current broadband networks, especially as video traffic and home‐based businesses become more prevalent. In the …
“The 2008 Horizon Report is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, An EDUCAUSE Program.” “The main sections of the report describe six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. Also highlighted are …
What if the Internet went down…and didn’t come back up? By Lynn Greiner, CIO.com, 01/22/08 “Imagine, if you will, a world with no Internet. No e-mail. No e-commerce. And no BlackBerrys. E-mail would be supplanted by snail mail; cell phones by land lines. Now imagine what the future would look like. Futurists say virtual business …
