Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation: “Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to Americas innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Cato: The Elephant That Became a Tiger 20 Years of Economic Reform in India
The Elephant That Became a Tiger 20 Years of Economic Reform in India, by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar “A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. Indias gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate has… Continue Reading
Study: Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning
Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning (July 29, 2011), Ayenson, Mika, Wambach, Dietrich James, Soltani, Ashkan, Good, Nathan and Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Available at SSRN In August 2009, we demonstrated that popular websites were using Flash cookies to track users. Some advertisers had adopted this technology because it allowed persistent… Continue Reading
President Obama Directs New Atrocity Prevention Measures
“This week, President Obama directed a comprehensive review to strengthen the United States ability to prevent mass atrocities. The Presidents directive states plainly that: Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America. The directive creates an important new tool in this… Continue Reading
World Trade Report 2011
World Trade Report 2011 – The WTO and preferential trade agreements: From co-existence to coherence, July 2011 “This year’s World Trade Report takes an in-depth fresh look at preferential trade. The choice of this topic reflects two significant trends in international trade relations, both of which carry far-reaching implications for the multilateral trading system. The… Continue Reading
Report on Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa
“The Berkman Center is pleased to release Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Survey of Perceptions, Knowledge, and Practice. This report describes the results of a survey of 98 bloggers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carried out in May 2011 in order to study bloggers perceptions of online… Continue Reading
Dow Jones circulation chief calculates highlights content for which customers will pay
Poynter: “Writing in the newsletter of the International News Marketing Association, Dow Jones senior vice president of circulation Lynne Brennen proposes five attributes to measure a consumers willingness to pay. She also assigned a percentage weighting to each. Keep in mind this is a measure not of what people would like to have as they… Continue Reading
Upcoming hearing: The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?
The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition? – Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. DATE: September 21, 2011 Continue Reading
The Institute for the Future of the Book
“The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction. The Institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is based in Brooklyn, New York. We’re a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual… Continue Reading
DOC2DOCK- Save Supplies – Save Lives
“U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. This includes unused, sterile medical supplies discarded for regulatory reasons and fully functional equipment. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world. To achieve this goal, we have built a strong network of medical professionals… Continue Reading
S&P: US Long-Term Rating Lowered To 'AA+' Due To Political Risks, Rising Debt Burden; Outlook Negative
News release [snipped]: “Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’. Standard & Poor’s also said that the outlook on the long-term rating is negative. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed its ‘A-1+’ short-term rating on… Continue Reading
BusinessWeek: Fragile Economy Keeps Older Workers From Retirement
“In the first half of 2011, the U.S. economy grew at a meager 0.8 percent annualized rate; investors appear increasingly nervous that a so-called double-dip recession is becoming more likely. Those worries were exacerbated this week by the debt-ceiling accord reached in Congress, which will seek $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts by years enda particularly… Continue Reading
