Follow up to FBI: Crime in the United States, 2009, these related reports and data:
Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, Jillian C. York, The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), November 2010 “Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms, most of which are owned by private companies. Such privately owned platforms now occupy a significant role in the public sphere, as places in which ideas… Continue Reading
Google: “..were releasing a white paper, Enabling Trade in the Era of Information Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to the Free Flow of Information, that explores the ways that governments impose limits on the free flow of information online. Its pretty wonky stuff, but the premise is simple: In addition to infringing human rights, governments that… Continue Reading
World Bank: “Accelerating innovation in emerging technologies is essential to help reduce the current and long-term impacts of climate change. However developing countries, which are most immediately threatened by these impacts, lag in their capacity to transfer, develop and deploy innovative climate technologies. Climate Innovation Centers: A New Way to Faster Climate Technologies in the… Continue Reading
The Fall/Winter 2010 Edition of The Business of Government “has as its background a period rife with significant challenges that go to the core of effective public management. Faced with seemingly intractable issues such as an ever growing federal deficit, economic uncertainty, unemployment, and aging infrastructure, it appears that the old adage doing more with… Continue Reading
“Eurostat regional yearbook 2010 gives a detailed picture of a large number of statistical fields in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as in candidate and EFTA countries. If you would like to take a closer look at social and economic trends in Europe’s regions, this publication is for you! The… Continue Reading
EU27 surplus down to 63 bn euro “In 2009, EU271 external trade in services2 slowed down compared with 2007 and 2008. EU27 exports of services to the rest of the word fell by 10%, from 524 billion euro in 2008 to 473 bn in 2009, and EU27 imports by 8%, from 446 bn to 409… Continue Reading
St. Louis Fed – House Price Index for the United States, data via Federal Housing Finance Agency Continue Reading
Trouble in Toyland: The 25th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, November 2010 – U.S. PIRG “In the last 25 years, our research and reporting have led to at least 130 recalls. Yet every year, we find new dangers on store shelves. Last year alone, more than 250,000 kids went to the ER with toy-related injuries,… Continue Reading
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, two new working papers via the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: Stopping the Spill: The Five-Month Effort to Kill the Macondo Well – Staff Working Paper No. 6: “The containment story thus contains two parallel threads. First,… Continue Reading
