Legally eHealth: Putting eHealth in its European Legal Context. Legal and regulatory aspects of eHealth Study report March 2008. “The Legally eHealth Report…seeks to examine some keys of the legal questions raised by the adoption of eHealth tools in healthcare. It looks at how EU legislation on data protection, product and services liability, and trade… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
EPA Launches the Environmental Indicators Gateway
EPA Launches the Environmental Indicators Gateway: “This gateway features information on EPA’s environmental indicator projects. These projects provide information on environmental conditions and trends over a range of geographic scales and time periods. The Gateway provides summaries of the indicator projects and links to the related reports and Web sites developed by each project. You… Continue Reading
Latest Findings on National Air Quality – Status and Trends Through 2006
Latest Findings on National Air Quality – Status and Trends Through 2006. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, EPA-454/R-07-007, January 2008. “The “Air Trends Online” project provides information on air pollution trends in the United States. The effort was launched in 1972… Continue Reading
Customs and Border Protection: Global Entry Pilot for International Travelers
News release: “Global EntryTM will be available for U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who are frequent international travelers, provided they have not been found guilty of a criminal offense, charged with a customs or immigration offense, or declared inadmissible to the U.S. under immigration legislation. Biometric fingerprint technology will be used to verify the… Continue Reading
World Bank – Rising Food Prices Threaten Poverty Reduction
Rising food prices: Policy options and World Bank response [Word doc]: “The rising trend in international food prices continued, and even accelerated, in 2008. U.S. wheat export prices rose from $375/ton in January to $440/ton in March, and Thai rice export prices increased from $365/ton to $562/ton. This came on top of a 181 percent… Continue Reading
ABA Launches SafeBorrowing.com Site
SafeBorrowing.com: “Consumer credit can be complicated. From the unusual legal terms to the complex mathematical formulas, understanding how credit works can be a big task. The Committee on Consumer Financial Services of the Section on Business Law of the American Bar Association has created this website to provide you with the tools to help you… Continue Reading
Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products – Guide and resource kit
“This WRI/WBCSD publication, is an information and decision-making tool to help customers develop their own sustainable procurement policies for wood and paper-based products. It also has information on existing approaches to procurement from legal and sustainable sources. Authors: Ruth Nogueron, Lars Laestadius, A joint collaboration between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business… Continue Reading
ITC Issues Report on Chinese Practices and Policies
News release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) [April 10, 2008] issued China: Description of Selected Government Practices and Policies Affecting Decision Making in the Economy [270 pages, PDF]. The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, prepared the report at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means. As… Continue Reading
Center for Responsive Politics Reports Another Record Year for Lobbying: $2.8 Billion
News release: “Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby for favorable policies in Washington, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. This represents an increase of 7.7 percent, or $200 million, over spending in 2006. And for every day Congress was in session, industries… Continue Reading
Commentary: "Mega-regions are the true force driving the rise of emerging economies"
The Rise of the Mega-Region, by Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and professor of business and creativity at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. “While there are 191 nations in the world, just 40 significant mega-regions power the global economy. Home to more than one-fifth of the world’s population, these… Continue Reading
Senior Supervisors Group Releases Report on Disclosure Practices
“Senior financial supervisors from five countries (collectively the Senior Supervisors Group) today issued a report that reviews the disclosure practices of financial services firms concerning their exposures to certain financial instruments that the marketplace now considers to be high-risk. This report, Leading-Practice Disclosures for Selected Exposures, provides examples of current leading practices in the reporting… Continue Reading
House and Senate Floor Using Twitter
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