Category — Science and Technology Policy

Policy Research Tool:
UNESCO is launching a new tool to support policy-making based on research results from international social and human sciences.

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this is a cool tool. this post is also post 5900 according to the numbering system….

edu-Impact | college & university economic impact portal:
Welcome to edu-Impact, the College & University Economic Impact Portal.
Appleseed, a New York City-based consulting firm, created this portal in response to a growing interest in the regional economic and community development impacts of colleges and universities. This portal is the most comprehensive source of information on the subject.

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this is a handy site for economic impact studies related to universities.

University viewpoint: the University of Warwick on ‘The challenge of global education and research’ « GlobalHigherEd:
The challenge of global education and research

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Nigel Thrift writes on the new global education.

Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers: SCIENCE (3.01b) :
With women accounting for more than 50% of the world population, achieving gender parity is an issue of global concern. The under-representation and under-achievement of girls in science and technology subjects can be seen as a serious inefficiency in educational systems in countries whose development depends crucially on the generation of human technological capacity.

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this training module might be useful in a variety of ways

Gender Indicators in Science, Engineering and Technology: SCIENCE (3.01b) :
Just out: the UNESCO toolkit on Gender Indicators in Science, Engineering and Technology provides a better understanding of the numbers and needs at stake in these fields, including quantitative and qualitative indicators for the participation of women and under-represented groups, especially in developing countries.

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handy

Women’s participation in research:
Read Head counts and headaches measuring women in science,which summarizes a survey by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics of women’s participation in research in 86 countries (A World of Science, April 2007, pages 21-23).

Read also the editorial on The Glass Ceiling by UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences (A World of Science, April 2007).
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this is another situation that needs to be resolve. equality in science.

Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights:
Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just got a whole lot easier.

Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers’ plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a print or high-resolution image after clicking through several warnings about copyrights and other restrictions — and only if you were a student, teacher or someone pledging not to use it to make money.

Now, you can just go to the free photo-sharing Web site flickr.com.

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Carl Malamud and his group are doing some good work on freeing and sustaining the freedom of access to public resources

Spy Chips:
This book will make you look at every store-bought item you own or debate owning with a curious skepticism that — after reading the book — won’t seem too unwarranted. It was published two years ago (a cheap paperback came out in the fall), but if you’ve yet to explore the fascinating, potentially paranoia-inducing, world of RFID and you want the cautionary, consumer-advocate perspective about the Radio Frequency Identification tracking being proposed — and used! — by certain companies (for instance, Gillette, Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart)

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this could be an interesting book.

Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?:
Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?

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well does it?

Articles:
The Best and Worst Internet Laws
Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman.
Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost 1,100 introduced bills referenced the word Internet, and hundreds of Internet laws have been passed by Congress and the states. This legislative activity is now large enough to identify some winners and losers. In the spirit of good fun, Eric Goldman offers an opinionated list of personal votes for the best and worst Internet statutes in the United States.

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this is a good read… it covers in a U.S.-centric way some of the most important internet issues of our day.