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    Can an Office Change a Country? The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, A Year in Review

    1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. Participants Gregg Ivers, Professor and Chair, Department of Government, The American University Paul Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies Program, the Brookings Institution Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Associate Director, the University of Pennsylvania Washington Semester Program, and Guest Scholar, the Brookings Institution Jim Towey, Director, White House Office of […]

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    Questions and Data

    Online Activities The Pew Internet Project asked not all the online activities questions during every day of surveying in 2000.  Different activities have varying numbers of respondents. Email: N=13,946 users; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Just for fun: N=13,946; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Hobby information: N=12,378; […]

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    Permanent or Temporary Shift?

    The questions that naturally follow are about the future: Do these changes in the news agenda represent some long-term transformation? When the war subsides and the threat against America from terrorism is perceived to be less imminent, will the nightly news and the morning news return to a pre-September 11th definition of normalcy? In short, […]

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    Part 2: Portland

    Introduction Portland prides itself as a center of manufacturing for high-tech goods and an entrepreneurial city where independent-minded people find a receptive climate for starting new businesses.  Portland also has a strong sense of identity as a community, with a passion for environmental protection and a strong ethic of managing growth throughout the region. City […]

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    Part 4: Cleveland

    Introduction Cleveland, though not known as a hotbed of Internet activity, is taking some innovative approaches to using the Internet for economic and social purposes.  Most prominently, the city is using approximately $3 million in revenue from cable fees to subsidize Internet access and computer training through community development corporations (CDCs).  A number of CDCs […]

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    Part 4: Partially Covered and Indirectly Covered Web Sites

    Sites with Multiple Activities As covered entities establish an online presence, their online collection and transmission of personal health information will be regulated by the privacy rule.  Even if a company is a covered entity, however, it is not obvious whether all information collected by the entity at its Web site is covered.  Most health-related […]

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    Part 6: Putting It All Together

    “Horror Stories” News stories have highlighted various types of privacy violations related to health information.  The new federal privacy regulation will address only some violations of privacy that can occur online.  The following examples are violations previously reported by the press.  None of them are covered by the privacy regulation since compliance with the regulation […]

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    Appendix A: Economic Profile of the Five Cities

    Economic Profile of the Five Cities The five cities studied in this report have a variety of characteristics, with several being among the most highly wired cities in the United States (Austin, Portland, and Washington, DC), some being centers of high-tech manufacturing (Austin and Portland), others being service oriented (Nashville and Washington), and one traditional […]

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    Part 1: Introduction

    Introduction Communities and economic development groups across the country are exploring ways to encourage people and organizations to go online.  They believe that good things will happen in their communities with greater Internet connectivity.  They think it will help their children learn, improve the job skills of their workforce and make their community a more […]

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    Further analysis

    The dot-com meltdown and the Web Background In mid-March, the Pew Internet & American Life Project issued a report entitled “Risky Business: Americans see greed, cluelessness behind dot-com’ comeuppance.”[1. See: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2001/Risky-Business-Americans-see-greed-cluelessness-behind-dotcoms-comeuppance.aspx] Six months after asking online Americans about how the impact of Internet companies’ problems on their experiences on the Internet, we decided to ask […]