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New DHS OIG Audits: Katrina, Bio-Surveillance Integration System Program, ADVISE, Information Technology Management

INTERIM REPORT, Hurricane Katrina: A Review of Wind Versus Flood Issues, OIG-07-62 (PDF, 25 pages) – New 08/13/2007 Better Management Needed for the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System Program, OIG-07-61 (PDF, 38 pages) – New 08/13/2007 Improvements to Information Sharing are Needed to Facilitate Law Enforcement Efforts During Disasters, OIG-07-60 (PDF, 51 pages) – New 08/13/2007 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

ABA Launches New Consumer E-Commerce Site

“Safeselling.org offers a resource for business people launching ecommerce enterprises and for businesses venturing into online sales. First-time entrepreneurs and established small to medium-sized business expanding their horizons should find helpful information on this site about selling goods and services online…Safeselling.org is a companion to safeshopping.org, an earlier project of the Cyberspace Law Committee of …

Subjects: E-Commerce

CBO – Trends in Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, 1956 to 2004

Trends in Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, 1956 to 2004, August 2007 [37 pages, PDF] and Data Files [WebAppendix.pdf >> TableB-2.xls >> SupplementalTables.xls]

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOD OIG Audits of Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions and Garnishment Program

D-2007-115 Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services Contract (August 9, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AS-0173.000) PDF and Summary D-2007-114 DoD Garnishment Program (July 19, 2007) (Project D2005-D000FC-0264.000) PDF and Summary: “Active, reserve, and retired military and Federal civilian employees have pay garnished to pay personal and commercial debts…During FY 2005, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Garnishment …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Election Assistance Commission Issues Poll Worker Best Practices

“The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has released two best practices guidebooks to help election officials recruit, train, and retain poll workers. [See] Successful Practices for Poll Worker Recruitment, Training and Retention and A Guidebook for Recruiting College Poll Workers.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Team of University of California Researchers Identify "Spamscatter" Technique

PC World: Study Finds Spam’s Achilles Heel – “Researchers say they’ve discovered a critical weakness in the spam infrastructure.” Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure, David S. Anderson, Chris Fleizach, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2007. See also The New Yorker, Damn Spam, The losing …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Commerce, E-Mail

New Research Promotes the Value of Banks Developing Social Media Presence

Press release: “One of the latest reports from Javelin Strategy & Research shows why financial institutions must engage in blogging now, and provides specific steps for assessing this powerful new brand-building and customer-connection capability into 2008-10 strategic plans. According to the study of over 3,500 consumers, one in five online consumers read blogs, yet blogs …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce

OSD/JS FOIA Requester Service Center Reading Rooms

The Defense Freedom of Information Policy Office (DFOIPO) is responsible for the formulation and implementation of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy guidance for the Department of Defense (DoD) OSD/JS FOIA Requester Service Center Reading Rooms

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Rand Report – Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security

Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security, August 8, 2007: “This report concerns the feasibility of obtaining information relevant to planning terrorist attacks from publicly available sources. To the extent that such information is available, it is particularly valuable to terrorist planners in that it can generally be obtained at …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet

New U.S. Government Implementation Plan to Control Narcotics in Afghanistan

On-the-Record Briefing On the Release of a Comprehensive New U.S. Government Implementation Plan to Control Narcotics in Afghanistan, August 9, 2007, Department of State. U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, August 2007, Compiled by the Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas A. Schweich, U.S. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

The European Library Offers Access to 150 Million Entries Across Europe

“The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. This website allows to search through the resources of 30 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Library of Congress Webcast Available on Torture, Detainees and the U.S. Military

The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce the following new resource: Webcast: A Panel Discussion – “Torture, Detainees, & the U.S. Military” [via Emily Carr/Law Library of Congress] SPEAKERS: Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, United States Army; Brigadier General James C. Walker, United States Marine Corps; Ms. Jacki Northam, National Public Radio Correspondent; Professor …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

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