Via Change.Gov, the Office of the President-Elect: “The Agency Review Teams for the Obama-Biden Transition will complete a thorough review of key departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government, as well as the White House, to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, and key advisors with information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary, and personnel decisions prior to the inauguration. The Teams will ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments, and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in.”
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Daily Archives: April 7, 2011
World Bank Report: Central America's Rising Crime and Violence puts Region's Development at Risk
News release: “Central Americas spiraling wave of crime and violence is threatening the regions prosperity as countries face huge economic and human losses as a result of it, according to a newly released World Bank report. Aside from the pain and trauma inflicted upon victims, violence can cost the region up to 8 percent of… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Employment and Training Programs, Indian Issues, Joint Strike Fighter, Recovery Act
Employment and Training Programs: Opportunities Exist for Improving Efficiency, GAO-11-506T, April 07, 2011 Indian Issues: Observations on Some Unique Factors that May Affect Economic Activity on Tribal Lands, GAO-11-543T, April 07, 2011 Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Places Program on Firmer Footing, but Progress Still Lags, GAO-11-325, April 07, 2011 Recovery Act: Energy Efficiency and Conservation… Continue Reading
FCC Takes Action on Data Roaming to Expand Consumers' Access to Mobile Broadband
“The FCC acted today to promote increased consumer access to nationwide mobile broadband service by adopting an Order that requires facilities-based providers of commercial mobile data services to offer data roaming arrangements to other such providers on commercially reasonable terms and conditions, subject to certain limitations. Consumers expect mobile data services that will allow them… Continue Reading
OMB: Planning for Agency Operations During a Lapse in Government Funding
M-11-13, 2011 Planning for Agency Operations During a Lapse in Government Funding (April 7, 2011). Includes a section on Frequently Asked Questions on Contracting, Grant Administration, and Payment Processing During a Lapse in Appropriations. See also FAQ to assist agencies and employees on personnel issues associated with a funding lapse and via Poynter, 5 interactive… Continue Reading
Epsilon Data Breach Threatens E-mail Privacy of Millions
Via EPIC: “Epsilon, a large marketing firm, has lost the names and e-mail addresses of customers of Walgreens, JP Morgan Chase, Capitol One, Tivo, and other large companies. The firm announced the data breaches late last week. Data service providers, such as Epsilon, are not well known by consumers and are not typically regulated. Epsilon… Continue Reading
CBO: Monthly Budget Review, April 2011
Monthly Budget Review, April 2011, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for February and the Daily Treasury Statements for March “The federal government incurred a budget deficit of $830 billion in the first six months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates$113 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same period last year. Outlays and… Continue Reading
Earth Day 2011: A Billion Acts of Green®
“In recognition of the power of millions of individual actions, Earth Day 2011 will be organized around A Billion Acts of Green®: Personal, organizational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably. At over 45 million actions to date, A Billion Acts of Green® campaign the largest environmental service campaign in the world … Continue Reading
Facebook: Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure
OPEN Compute Project: We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers… Continue Reading
OECD – Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2011
“The global recovery from the deepest recession since the Great Depression has been underway for some time now, but it remains overly dependent on macroeconomic policy stimulus and has so far been insufficient to address high and persistent unemployment in many countries. With fiscal stimulus bound to be gradually withdrawn to address unsustainable public debt… Continue Reading
What The United States Could Learn From Israel About Improving The Quality Of Health Care
What The United States Could Learn From Israel About Improving The Quality Of Health Care – Bruce Rosen, L. Gregory Pawlson, Rachel Nissenholtz, Jochanan Benbassat, Avi Porath, Mark R. Chassin and Bruce E. Lando “In 1999 Israel began to implement a system for monitoring quality of care in its health plans. That system was based… Continue Reading
