The US response to the 2010Haiti Earthquakewas a large effort coordinated by threemajor agencies that worked in tandem with the Government of Haiti, the United Nations, and many countries from around the globe.Managing this response effortwas a complexundertaking that relied extensively onknowledge management systems (KMS). For the first time, however, US government agencies employed socialmedi...

the aim of present study was to comparison men with social capital are so important for organizations and they are considered as rare assets. the significance of factors effecting social capital is increased day by day. organizational justice can be one of these factors. so, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational justice on the social capital leve...

Over the past few years the Social Security Bulletin has published a series of technical articles that describe various Social Security Administration (SSA) data files. This article provides an overview of SSA's industry-related data files and statistical systems from both a current and a historical perspective. The author begins by explaining how SSA first collected business data from employer...

This paper examines the hypothesis that private agencies tend to provide more aid when the public welfare network is less extensive-i.e., that private agencies fill the gaps left by public welfare. Using data involving county emergency assistance programs, the research indicates that the private effort is indeed somewhat larger when the public network is smaller. The best predictor of the priva...

Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries’ and taxpayers’ interests, opening profit opportunities in the field of social politics for smart private investors. We will shed a more analytical light on SIBs, assuming that, like any contract, SIBs try to align interests ...

The five year NSF DGP project has been instrumental to conceptualize surveillance geoinformatics partnership among several interested cross-disciplinary scientists in academia, agencies, and private sector. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection. Our efforts are driven by a wide variety of case studie...

Investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies depend on information that is obtained from a variety of sources, internal and external to the organization. Considering that investigations frequently span multiple jurisdictions and government agencies with varying objectives and powers, assessing and ensuring compliance with their policies and the legal framework is challenging. We present...

Successful knowledge-based strategies for organisations require to build digital experiments which combine the power of networked information technologies like the Internet and the Web with the creativity and competencies of their own staff. This paper presents such an experiment which refers to the services of German economic development agencies. The presented work is carried out within a Ger...