Recent reports of the Congressional Research Service on topics related to openness and transparency include the following (all pdf).
“Does Price Transparency Improve Market Efficiency? Implications of Empirical Evidence in Other Markets for the Health Sector,” July 24, 2007.
“State E-Government Strategies: Identifying Best Practices and Applications,” July 23, 2007.
“Clinical Trials Reporting and Publication,” updated July 12, 2007.
“Freedom of Information Act Amendments: 110th Congress,” updated July 10, 2007.
At a recent workshop, we explored the nature of trust in specific government functions, the risk and implications of breaking trust in those systems, and how we’d known we were getting close to specific trust breaking points.
tudents in the 21st century need strong critical thinking skills like reasoning, questioning, and problem-solving, before they can meaningfully engage with more advanced domains like digital, data, or AI literacy.
When the U.S. government funds the establishment of a platform for testing hundreds of behavioral interventions on a large diverse population, we will start to better understand the interventions that will have an efficient and lasting impact on health behavior.
The grant comes from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) to investigate, alongside The British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the associated impact on nuclear stability.