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Election 2001: Political Parties Show Their IT Stripes
News With the UK general election campaign in full swing, the three main political parties have come under criticism for not fully understand the importance of technology and the issues that surround it. Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal...
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
Political Correctness Puts Disk Drives In A Spin
News Disk drives may the latest victim of political correctness. This is another ludicrous example of "political correctness," he said. This is political point-scoring and nothing to do with the reality of everyday life.
[November 26, 2003, 14:50]
Political Site Leaves Backdoor Open
News Renewed scrutiny is being placed on political Web sites as the presidential election nears. A Web page misconfiguration in liberal political group MoveOn.org's subscriber pages left dozens of records easily searchable through simple Google queries.
[August 25, 2004, 10:05]
Political Paradox: Technology Is Everywhere, Except In Voters' Hearts
News In a political year as bizarre as 1998, Capitol Hill-watchers said it's not surprising that voters have moved technology issues to the back burner -- even though, ironically, several tech-related measures proved crucial to last-minute budget talks.
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
Political Hackers Are Modern Freedom Fighters
News Hacktivists have officially moved from nerdish extremists to become the political protest visionaries of the digital age, a meeting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will be told on Thursday.
[March 8, 2001, 12:10]
Political Cybersquatting Scores A Win
News However, the owner of the disputed sites said that, among other things, he has a free-speech right to use Kennedy's name because she is a political figure. Less clear, however, is the situation surrounding political figures.
[April 30, 2002, 10:11]
Communicate Your Outsourcing Plans Effectively: Take Control Of Outsourcing Communications To Avoid Political Backlash
White Papers The political backlash from poor communications can cause negative press, low employee morale, and reduced shareholder value. Effective communications in the early stages of your company's outsourcing initiative is critical; however few companies...
[February 3, 2005, 23:00]
ID Cards 'very Much On The Political Agenda'
News I think that the whole issue of identity cards that a few years ago were not on anyone's agenda are very much on the political agenda here, probably more quickly even than we anticipated, and that is because we are living in a new world and with a...
[April 2, 2004, 16:20]
Data Warehousing Political Issues
White Papers This paper is a list of political issues that frequently come up in data warehousing projects. People often get blind sided by politics. My hope is that this paper might give readers some advance warning of these issues.
[March 9, 2004, 23:00]
Outsourcing Turns Political - Diplomat
News The heated debate over business-process outsourcing will soon become a political issue, and Indian authorities must come up with a plan to counter the opposition, says a US diplomat. This could well become a political problem, and India must put in...
[July 18, 2003, 13:55]
What Does Appropriate Performance Reporting For Political Decision-Makers Require?: Empirical Evidence From Switzerland
White Papers Before that, the paper will shortly introduce the relevance of performance reporting as a part of the NPM, and for political decision-making, followed by a very brief description of the Swiss context.
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
Getting To Know You: Rules Of Engagement For Political Appointees And Career Executives
White Papers This research examines key assumptions that federal political executives make about career staff and debunk myths that are inherent in those assumptions. First, the paper examines the mythology surrounding political appointees and careerists.
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Broadband Have-nots To Raise A Political Stink
News The digital divide is a significant political issue. People who are trapped on the wrong side of the broadband divide are going to put increasing amounts of pressure on politicians until the issue is addressed, the telecoms industry was warned on...
[December 5, 2003, 16:15]
Learning To Trust Lula: Contagion And Political Risk In Brazil
White Papers In this paper, the high Brazilian country risk in 2002 and the Sudden Stop in capital flows is interpreted as reflecting "political equilibrium" in a context where, for the first time, a charismatic Left-wing leader had a strong run for office.
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Political Apathy Maintained Online
News Ward said: "Our survey provides a sobering antidote to the hype that often surrounds the role of the internet in the political world, but we shouldn't write off new technologies as being of no consequence.
[February 25, 2005, 9:40]
New Nachi Hides Political Attack
News A new variant of the Nachi worm has emerged that is apparently sending a political message to computers running Japanese versions of Windows. Nachi.B, discovered on Wednesday, has attacked only a small number of computers so far and is less...
[February 13, 2004, 7:40]
Public EProcurement Adoption: Economic And Political Rationality
White Papers eProcurement is on the political agenda throughout Europe. The paper suggests that efficiency explanations of electronic marketplaces should be considered alongside with specific political-structural elements that characterize the public sector.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Singapore To Block British Political Web Sites
News British political Web sites that refuse to register in Singapore will be blocked in the same way that pornographic sites are filtered out, the Singapore government has warned. The law will apply to all foreign Web sites, and is likely to finalise a...
[September 6, 2001, 8:30]
Political Correctness Puts Disk Drives In A Spin
Talkback I shouldn't be surprised, this country has long since been going to Hell thanks to political correctness. It's hard to type with my eyes rolled toward the ceiling. Amazing what idiots will do for attention.
[December 2, 2003, 0:09]
Spiders, Spam, And Spyware: New Media And The Market For Political Information
White Papers This paper argues that one of the most important implications of new media is in the market structure for political information. Whereas information about public policy opinion used to be expensive to collect, highly reductive, and restricted to a...
[December 26, 2004, 23:00]
