Category «Knowledge Management»

Book Review – ‘Gender Equality by Design’: Building a More Inclusive (and Productive) Workplace

“A new book by Harvard University professor Iris Bohnet, What Works: Gender Equality By Design, argues that tweaking the ways companies identify, develop and promote talent can improve equality and diversity at a “shockingly low cost and high speed.” In the following article, Knowledge@Wharton reviews key takeaways from Bohnet’s book.” “U.S. corporations spend $8 billion annually on …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Incentives – and pressures – for U.S. workers in a ‘knowledge economy

Pew Fact Tank: “As automation looms and more and more jobs are being shaped to accommodate the tech-saturated “knowledge economy,” 63% of full- and part-time workers say they have taken steps in the past 12 months to upgrade their skills and knowledge. That is one of several key findings from a Pew Research Center survey …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management

GAO Reports – Federal Protective Service, HUBZone Program, IRS Referral Programs, 2015 Lobbying Disclosure

Federal Protective Service: Enhancements to Performance Measures and Data Quality Processes Could Improve Human Capital Planning, GAO-16-384: Published: Mar 24, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 24, 2016. HUBZone Program: Actions Taken on February 2015 GAO Recommendations, GAO-16-423R: Published: Mar 24, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 24, 2016. IRS Referral Programs: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Controls and Increase …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Transportation

Access to Government Information in the United States: A Primer

Via FAS – CRS Report – Access to Government Information in the United States: A Primer, Wendy Ginsberg – Analyst in American National Government; Michael Greene, Information Research Specialist. March 18, 2016. “…This report offers an introduction to the four access laws and provides citations to additional resources related to these statutes. This report includes …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

GPO working to make Jefferson’s Manual and Rules of House of Representatives available in XML

“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is working with the House of Representatives Committee on Rules, the House Parliamentarian, and the Clerk of the House to make Jefferson’s Manual and the Rules of the House of Representatives available in XML format using the United States Legislative Markup (USLM) schema. USLM is an XML information model …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Pew – Lifelong Learning and Technology

“A large majority of Americans seek extra knowledge for personal and work-related reasons. Digital technology plays a notable role in these knowledge pursuits, but place-based learning remains vital to many and differences in education and income are a hallmark of people’s learning activities.. Most Americans feel they are lifelong learners, whether that means gathering knowledge …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Paper on climate change – Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 degrees C global warming could be dangerous – Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3761–3812, 2016, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3761-2016. “We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

U.S. Extends Lead in International Patent and Trademark Filings

Via WIPO – The United States of America (U.S.) extended its long-standing position as the top source of international patent applications via WIPO amid another strong year of worldwide intellectual property (IP) filing growth, as an electronics manufacturer displaced a watch maker as the leading depositor of international industrial design applications. Videos: Highlights Video/YouTube | …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New page for people/institutions who want to get data into Wikidata

Wikidata:Data donation – “This page is written for institutions, companies, organisations and individuals who are interested in adding data to Wikidata…Wikidata aims to create a multilingual free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It provides data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Wiki

New on LLRX – Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources 2016

Via LLRX.com – Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources 2016 – Marcus Zillman’s guide is a comprehensive listing of grid resources, distributed computing resources, cloud computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet. These resources and sources will help you to find the latest grid and distributed computing resources and sites to evaluate …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management