Former IVN editor. UC Berkeley graduate in Political Economy. Worked on data analysis and visualization software in Start Up Chile accelerator. Photographer, music blogger, and activist based in Santiago, Chile.
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Cybersecurity has become a very important issue for the federal government to address. Threats from cyberspace affect a broad range of government organizations, from the Department of Defense, to the police force, to the Department of Energy, and risk the extraction of important classified information by hackers or hostile parties.
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Cybersecurity has become a very important issue for the federal government to address. Threats from cyberspace affect a broad range of government organizations, from the Department of Defense, to the police force, to the Department of Energy, and risk the extraction of important classified information by hackers or hostile parties.
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Cal Watchdog, a web-based journalism site dedicated to improving government transparency, highlighted an important, but often overlooked, provision in Governor Brown's controversial Proposition 30. The provision will restore the state's open meeting law, which requires governments to make public meeting agenda's at least 72
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Cal Watchdog, a web-based journalism site dedicated to improving government transparency, highlighted an important, but often overlooked, provision in Governor Brown's controversial Proposition 30. The provision will restore the state's open meeting law, which requires governments to make public meeting agenda's at least 72
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Photo: International Telecommunications Union Yesterday, an e-mail from Vint Cerf, a founding father of the Internet, circulated commending those nations which refused to sign the Final Acts at the World Conference of International Telecommunications in Dubai last week. Those who didn't sign are, according to Cerf, protecting the
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Photo: theparentingcenter.org Just days before the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Milpitas Unified School District in Northern California approved a $104,000 contract with Palo Alto-based non-profit that will provide mental health services for elementary schools. The organization, called Counseling and Support Services for Youth, will provide emotional
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Photo: Francisco Quinones // solitarywatch.com // A demonstration against the use of solitary confinement in prisons. Last week the United Nations held a meeting on prisoners’ rights in Buenos Aires. The conference, called the Inter-Governmental Expert Meeting (IGEM), resulted in an important updated Draft Report of the Standard Minimum Rules for
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Cybersecurity has certainly become a serious topic of discussion in the last few years, but particularly since the emergence of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower organization that seeks to make public the private doings of the government and other large organizations. This calls national security into question as it hangs in a
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Cybersecurity has certainly become a serious topic of discussion in the last few years, particularly since the emergence of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower organization that seeks to make public the private doings of the government and other large organizations. This calls national security into question as it hangs in a delicate
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Gallup released an infographic that describes what they have found should be important economic markers for leaders throughout the globe. One is the Payroll to population employment rate and the other is the thriving rate. Gallup's Payroll to Population rate is calculated as a percentage of the US
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Photo: World Conference on International Telecommunications Last week IVN reported on the worry, and anticipation, over the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Over 190 entities are participating in the conference, which began December 3, and many groups have expressed their concern about its potential outcomes, which some fear will limit
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Photo: World Conference on International Telecommunications Last week IVN reported on the worry, and anticipation, over the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Over 190 entities are participating in the conference, which began December 3, and many groups have expressed their concern about its potential outcomes, which some fear will limit