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In fact, a new report notes that if you actually bothered to read all the privacy policies you encounter on a daily basis, it would take you 250 working hours per year -- or about 30 workdays.
"Decisions about when and how to regulate activities online will have a profound societal impact. Debates underlying such decisions touch upon fundamental problems related to economics, free expression, and privacy. Their outcomes will influence the structure of the Internet, how data can flow across it, and who will pay to build and maintain it. Most striking about these debates are the paucity of data available to guide policy and the extent to which policy-makers ignore the good data we do have."
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he best approach is neither to make ill-informed decisions based on too little data nor to avoid state regulation simply because of the absence of decent data. Instead, we should begin a concerted push for highly reliable and publicly available forms of measurement of the Internet and the Web and how we use them, including the flows of information we generate and consume. Better data would do more than just help the state meet its regulatory obligations; better data would also improve self-regulation by private sector players and empower individuals to make better decisions. In the meantime, we as researchers need to work harder to translate the good data that we do have into terms that can directly inform policy-making.
I've been on both the producing and receiving end of too many cost benefit analyses to trust them. If you're being relatively honest and if you're dealing with fairly concrete, short-term issues, they're useful tools, but even then it's still the case that you can manufacture strikingly divergent conclusions by manipulating your assumptions and inputs by surprisingly small amounts. Cost-benefits usually look like they're grounded in hardheaded thinking simply because they're numerically based, but quite often they're nothing of the kind.
The long-running battle between core content curriculum (E.D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy, a book I read in 20 years ago) and critical thinking soldiers on.
Review and commentary on book by Robert C. Ellickson, The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
in list: Economic Crisis
The geopolitical implications of this gathering crisis for world oil supply 2010-15 are immense. The risk of further military interventions and conflicts in the Middle East is clearly high. Total world oil reserves are estimated at 2.5-2.9 trillion barrel
Explorations of Empirical and Formal Research in International Relations and Comparative Politics.
In Evaluating social networking services, this report then describes how to use a toolkit – a social networking evaluation chart covering six different social networking services, and an accompanying checklist, which are available to download from the Digizen website to evaluate services.
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The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) was established in 1998, at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, School of Information Studies (UWM-SOIS)
The Center facilitates information policy research through its lecture series, research agenda, consulting and outreach activities, and its information ethics fellows program. With information infrastructures and technologies and the globalization of information evolving at a faster pace than our social, legal, and educational systems, it is imperative that information policy issues be examined systematically in an interdisciplinary environment. The CIPR welcomes formal and informal collaborations with other institutions and agencies.
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The Center for Independent Media is a non-profit organization that fosters diversity of ideas in the national debate by educating and training people on the use of new communications technologies, such as the Internet, as an alternative publishing and distribution system to traditional broadcast and print media. The Center brings talented and diverse voices and ideas to the fore of our nation’s discourse, through its Fellowships, conferences, and research. Programs emphasize the importance of citizen-driven journalism as a critical founding principle of our nation, the positive role of democratically elected government in securing the common good and social welfare, and the continuing benefits of our founding culture of egalitarian government by the people, for the people.
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On the Commons Fellow Julie Ristau together with Alexa Bradley and Dave Mann of the Boston-based Grassroots Policy Project are collaborating on a popular education curriculum that introduces the framework of the commons into the context of contemporary organizing. They are conducting workshops with a set of strategic groups and networks to engage organizers in integrating a commons orientation into their work.
The On the Commons-GPP team conducted a training for community organizers from across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin; led a workshop for farmers and rural activists who are part of the Land Stewardship Project, a leading sustainable agriculture group; and showcased the principles of the commons to ISAIAH, a network of religious congregations whose work on justice and community issues carries wide influence in Minnesota.
“We see the potential for the commons framework to help organizers ‘reframe’ existing issues, surface new issues and, most importantly, ground organizing work in a broader framework that bridges constituencies,” Ristau explains. “The commons offers a paradigm broad and rich enough to spark a new vision and philosophy.”
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