Archive: government

• Politics and Privacy

  By Relliott November 13, 2012

  With the 2012 election finally over, it seems both inevitable and laughable that 2016 is already being mentioned, and not just by Jon Stewart. At the moment I am not at all interested in what lies ah

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Barack Obama, big data, data, election 2012, facebook, government, intellectual property, internet, internet security, mitt romney, policy, Politics and Privacy, privacy, social media, Technology & Information Policy

• The Big and the Small of It

  By ck439 October 25, 2012

  [caption id="attachment_6216" align="aligncenter" width="290"] Photo courtesy of Flickr user trawin.[/caption] While studying criminology in college I became captivated by a concept called the Broken

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Broken Windows Theory, creativity, culture, economics, government, Innovation, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, National Ignition Facility, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Program, technology

• What Happens When the Earth's Rotation Slows?

  By ekm45 October 13, 2012

  I recently read a young adult novel called The Age of Miracles by Karen Walker.  The story is written from the perspective of an eleven-year-old girl in California, beginning on the day that scientist

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: government, individualism, new orleans

• Crowdsourcing and Diplomacy: A Love Story for the 21st Century Statesman-in-Waiting

  By ErinColeman March 6, 2012

  Technology and government: they go together like...well, what exactly?  If you’re like most people in Washington, odds are that your views on this relationship have been hardened by your work in one

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: 21st century statecraft, crowdsourcing, cultural diplomacy, digital diplomacy, diplomacy, diplopedia, e-internship, ediplomacy, government, microtasking, microvolunteering, Office of eDiplomacy, secretary clinton, State Department, Tech@State, virtual student foreign service, VSFS

• The Nano-Threats To Privacy: Sci-Fi or Sci-Fact?

  By gnovisguest March 24, 2004

  Abstract: The biggest threat to personal privacy in the near future might not come from massive government surveillance projects; instead, tiny technology will be implemented by diverse commercial, p

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: commerce, commercial, conspir, government, information, k-mart, Nano-Threat, Nanomachines, personal, privacy, RFID, Sci-fi, science fiction, security, surveilance, technology, virus, worm