Condon of CNET recounts Thomas Friedman and Chris Savage discussing the policy window currently open for regulating technology:
“Reaching the most democratic solutions will require making the Internet policy process as interactive as the Net,” said Nathan James, the program and outreach manager for the Media and Democracy Coalition, an affiliation of consumer, public interest, and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘policy tools’
March 31, 2009
Policy tools – regulatory
March 21, 2009
Credit Card Vendors policing cybersec
PIC agreements as a tool to secure cyberspace… at least it’s a private sector approach to a market problem. SecurityFix notes:
According to a message posted at TrafficConverter2.biz and its sister sites, the program’s credit card payment processor pulled the plug on them shortly after our story ran.
February 24, 2009
Regulatory Transparency – will it change your behavior?
A relatively new policy tool, mandatory disclosure of infromation with a regulatory intent, is being proposed as a means to deal with the net neutrality issue. In an article announcing Obama’s choice of Leibowitz as FTC chair, Cnet reports:
On the issue of Net neutrality, Leibowitz stood out from his colleagues in June 2007 when the [...]
February 23, 2009
CyberSecurity Updates
Univ Florida – breach – 97,000 id’s
Norton unveils product to help parents manage children’s access to the web. Has the market done what Government could not?
Citing a Rochester Institute of Technology study that found a huge gap between the percentage of parents versus children who report no online supervision, Symantec says that Online Family is [...]
February 17, 2009
Implications of InVitro research
NYT post on risks of IVF — interesting in light of efforts by the BioEthics Defense Fund to curtail IVF in light of the California octuplets story.
February 16, 2009
Education Policy – Effective Spending
Downey’s editorial cites research in NC showing that the most effective expenditure of public funds in relation to achievement is that spent in the classroom.
In their High School Resource Allocation Study, Henry and Charles Thompson of East Carolina University found that money spent in the regular classroom produced far greater achievement than money spent on [...]
February 15, 2009
Evaluating Education Policy
Susan Lacettie Meyers makes some conclusive evaualations of the current education system. And, she notably states:
After two decades of following public education as a journalist then a legislative policy advisor, I have witnessed no return on escalating taxpayer investment in public education. We’ve dropped from 41st to 49th in graduation rates since the Quality Basic [...]
February 14, 2009
Drug Policy In Brazil
NYT story on rising use of ecstasy in upper class Brazil.
Couple of interesting twists:
If you have a college degree, you get sentenced differently.
Use of illicit drugs gets you treatment
Financiers of drug dealers get harsher punishment than drug dealers
February 13, 2009
Internet Privacy – FTC worried self regulation not working
Lots of tangents from the story on new FTC study on industry policing and advertising their privacy policies:
FTC has two votes for regulation or legislation (doubts cast upon self regulation as a tool – public failure)
Study thinks companies make the information regarding their privacy policies too difficulty for the average person to find/comprehend (market failure [...]
February 12, 2009
New Policy Tool for Cyber Security – Bounty Hunting
Microsoft is offer $250,000 for the heads of those responsible for constructing conficker.
