News release: “The European Commission has imposed a penalty payment of 899 million euros [$1.3 billion] on Microsoft for non-compliance with its obligations under the Commissions March 2004 Decision (see IP/04/382) prior to 22 October 2007. Todays Decision, adopted under Article 24(2) of Regulation 1/2003, finds that, prior to 22 October 2007, Microsoft had charged… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
New GAO Reports: ederal Workers' Compensation, National Disaster Response, USPTO Backlog, Transportation Safety, ecure Border Initiative
Federal Workers’ Compensation: Better Data and Management Strategies Would Strengthen Efforts to Prevent and Address Improper Payments, GAO-08-284, February 26, 2008 National Disaster Response: FEMA Should Take Action to Improve Capacity and Coordination between Government and Voluntary Sectors, GAO-08-369, February 27, 2008 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Hiring Efforts Are Not Sufficient to Reduce the… Continue Reading
Public Attitudes Toward Government Accountability and Transparency 2008
Public Attitudes Toward Government Accountability and Transparency 2008, A Survey Commissioned by the Association of Government Accountants, February 2008. “In January 2008, the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) commissioned a study by leading market research firm Harris Interactive®, to conduct the first in a series of annual surveys of public attitudes towards government transparency and… Continue Reading
CDT Public Policy Briefing on E-Government Re-authorization Act
Center for Democracy and Technology: “For five years, the E-Government Act has promoted improvements in the federal government’s use of information technology. The Act has improved the public’s access to government information resources as well as creating protections for personal information. The 2002 Act expired in 2007, and a 2007 E-Government Reauthorization Act (S. 2321)… Continue Reading
UN Environment Programme Year Book 2008
UN news release: “An emerging Green Economy is glimpsed in the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Year Book 2008 as growing numbers of companies embrace environmental policies and investors pump hundreds of billions of dollars into cleaner and renewable energies. Climate change, as documented in the Year Book, is increasingly changing the global environment… Continue Reading
New Survey Finds Highest Rates of Drug-Resistant TB to Date
World Health Organization news release: “Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been recorded at the highest rates ever, according to a new report published today. The report presents findings from the largest survey to date on the scale of drug resistance in tuberculosis. The report, Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world, is based on data collected between… Continue Reading
Global E-Government Survey 2008
“The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance assesses the e-government readiness of the 192 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication infrastructure, and human resource endowment. ICTs can help reinvent government in such a way that existing institutional arrangements can be… Continue Reading
Fusion Center – Developing and Sharing Information and Intelligence in a New Era
Fusion Center – Developing and Sharing Information and Intelligence in a New Era – Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Fusion Centers at the Local, State, and Federal Levels Law Enforcement Intelligence, Public Safety, and the Private Sector: “The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) collaborated in the development… Continue Reading
A Legal and Policy Analysis – Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy
The World Privacy Forum – A Legal and Policy Analysis – Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy, Prepared by Robert Gellman for the World Privacy Forum, February 20, 2008 “This document offers a legal and policy analysis of the privacy consequences for consumer health information stored on or by Personal Health Records systems… Continue Reading
AJR Examines Wikipedia in the Newsroom
American Journalism Review: “While the line “according to Wikipedia” pops up occasionally in news stories, its relatively rare to see the user-created online encyclopedia cited as a source. But some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information.” Continue Reading
CBO: The Outlook for Spending on Health Care and Long-Term Care
Congressional Budget Office Presentation to the National Governors Association’s Health and Human Services Committee: The Outlook for Spending on Health Care and Long-Term Care, February 24, 2008 Continue Reading
The Global War On Terrorism: An Assessment
News release: “The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report, The Global War on Terrorism: An Assessment (292 pages, PDF), authored by Senior Fellow Robert C. Martinage. The report concludes that the United States reached a high-water mark in the war on terrorism in 2003. At that time, the Taliban had… Continue Reading
