Category «Knowledge Management»

Harvard’s Groundbreaking Project Documenting Online Content Removals Changes Name to Lumen

News release: “Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce exciting changes to our pioneering Chilling Effects project, including an expanded mission and a new set of international research partnerships. To better reflect this evolution in scope as well as the changes in the landscape over the fourteen years since it …

Subjects: Digital Rights, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Doing Business 2016

“Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 13th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Law on the Market? Evaluating the Securities Market Impact of Supreme Court Decisions

Katz, Daniel Martin and Bommarito, Michael James and Soellinger, Tyler and Chen, James Ming, Law on the Market? Evaluating the Securities Market Impact of Supreme Court Decisions (August 24, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2649726 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2649726  “Do judicial decisions affect the securities markets in discernible and perhaps predictable ways? In other words, is …

Subjects: Courts, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Securities Law

What’s my place in the world population? How long will I live?

“Population.io aims to make demography – the study of human populations – accessible to a wider audience. We believe that demographic data can play an important role in understanding the social and economic developments of our time. Our hope is that people from all walks of life, in all ages and across all countries will …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Economics of the Interconnection Data Centre Industry

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. and Milde, Christopher and Selke, André, Economics of the Interconnection Data Centre (IDC) Industry (October 1, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2680186 “The modern digital economy is characterized by high data volumes and the necessity for reliable high speed data exchange. Businesses such as Netflix, providing video on-demand, social and messaging …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Cost of Used Books Plummets as Availability Swells

New York Times – A Penny for Your Books By Dan Nosowitzoct, October 26, 2015: “…in recent years, my bookshelves have swelled. Old John le Carré and Donald E. Westlake and Lawrence Block titles are easier than ever to find online, along with pretty much every other book published in the last century. They’re all …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

Cybersecurity: The changing role of audit committee and internal audit

Deloitte: “Among the most complex and rapidly evolving issues companies must contend with is cybersecurity. With the advent of mobile technology, cloud computing, and social media, reports on major breaches of proprietary information and damage to organisational IT infrastructure have also become increasingly common, thus transforming the IT risk landscape at a rapid pace. International …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

White House – Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan

Tony Scott – Federal CIO – Modernizing Federal Sybersecurity – [October 30, 2015] “the Administration directed a series of actions to continue strengthening Federal cybersecurity & modernizing the government’s technology infrastructure. Strengthening the cybersecurity of Federal networks, systems, and data is one of the most important challenges we face as a Nation. Every day, public …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, PC Security

The Federal Advisory Committee Act: Analysis of Operations and Costs

CRS Report – The Federal Advisory Committee Act: Analysis of Operations and Costs, Wendy Ginsberg, Analyst in American National Government. October 27, 2015. “Federal advisory committees are established to allow experts from outside the federal government to provide advice and recommendations to executive branch agencies or the President. Federal advisory committees can be created either by …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Harvard Law School Library Embarks on Expansive Digitization Project

Erik Eckholm, NYT: “Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice, and no place, save the Library of Congress, can match the collection at Harvard’s Law School Library. Its trove includes nearly every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times — a priceless potential resource for everyone from legal …

Subjects: Copyright, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries