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New Zimbabwe.com
April 28, 2018
BRITISH Think Tank Chatham House was late Monday forced to retract a tweet it had posted claiming Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo had declared the country would go to the polls on July 18. Moyo, however, indicated elections will be held in July without giving a date. Former HigherÃâà...
Idaho EdNews (blog)
April 28, 2018
Idaho has vast stretches of desert, topographically speaking. But a pro-school choice think tank mapped out a different patch of “charter school desert” — a pocket of the Treasure Valley northwest of Boise. It's an area with high poverty and a shortage of charter schools, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute saidÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 28, 2018
LONDON (Sputnik) - The UK is home to "a racist culture," and Prime Minister Theresa May is the "architect" of this hostile environment, the vice chair of the Council of Management of the Institute of Race Relations think tank told Sputnik amid the scandal on the immigration status of the so-called WindrushÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
April 28, 2018
Researchers at education thinktank the Mitchell Institute argue that if enrolments in the vocational education and training (VET) sector stay on trend, and growth in university places only matches population growth, there will be 10.7 per cent fewer tertiary graduates in just over a decade. That compares to anÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
April 28, 2018
Attackers with a plan will survey the target environment before launching an attack. This is an incident – where defences have been overcome, but there is as yet no consequence to the organisation. Discovering such incidents early, before the incident becomes a breach, should be the aim of every organisation. DownloadÃâà...
TotalPolitics.com
April 28, 2018
Four think tanks stand out. Firstly, the Centre for Policy Studies has taken on new senior staff, most notably in the form of journalist and author Rob Colvile, and No 10 policy adviser Alex Morton - respectively the think tank's new director and head of policy. The CPS recently announced the launch of fourÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
April 26, 2018
We should probably start by defining toxic dwell time. If an attack has become tangled in the weeds and is dwelling because it is struggling to proceed, then dwell time – while not unimportant – is less threatening than one that has successfully managed to penetrate a network and carry out damage or exfiltration and hasÃâà...
News24
April 26, 2018
The Roman Catholic Church should mediate in the crisis in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where separatists and security forces are embroiled in a dangerous conflict, a think-tank urged on Thursday. "The Catholic Church could help break this dangerous stalemate," the International CrisisÃâà...
Kathimerini
April 26, 2018
Greece's economy will expand by 2.1 percent this year, the country's most influential think tank IOBE said in its quarterly review on Thursday, sticking to a previous forecast. The Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) also estimated that the country's jobless rate will drop further this year,Ãâà...
Focus Taiwan News Channel
April 25, 2018
Taipei, April 25 (CNA) the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), one of Taiwan's leading think tanks, said Wednesday that it has upgraded its ... from an earlier forecast, while the think tank has also upgraded its forecast of the country's imports growth by 0.17 percentage points to 3.92 percent.
Euro Weekly News
April 25, 2018
SPAIN has come 149th out of 178 countries in a think tank's rankings of the world's most fragile states. The country's place in the table has risen from 155th place in 2017. The rankings, from the Fund for Peace (FFP) group, lists countries by the risks they face in remaining united, functioning countries.
WAMU 88.5
April 25, 2018
Fred Dews tackles some of the world's most urgent issues on his podcast, the “Brookings Cafeteria.” But on a recent day, he was focused on D.C. high school senior named Doseza Jackson. Sitting in the Brookings Institution's cramped podcast studio with Dews overseeing from the next room, Jackson wasÃâà...
WWD
April 25, 2018
The subscription box market is booming and consumers are flocking to sign up for a seemingly endless variety of product offerings. In fact, estimates suggest that between 2013 and 2016 the number of monthly visits to subscription service sites increased by 3,000 percent. Among this sea of subscriptionÃâà...
Mail & Guardian
April 25, 2018
With the fourth industrial revolution taking place globally, South Africa cannot go on with business as usual, according to the Industrial Development Think-Tank (IDTT), which is calling on the government to restructure the economy. The IDTT, which is housed at the Centre for Competition, Regulation andÃâà...
CNBC
April 25, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially result in a nuclear war by 2040, according to a research paper by a U.S. think tank. The paper, by the nonprofit Rand Corporation, warns that AI could erode geopolitical stability and remove the status of nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence. While peace hasÃâà...
WWD
April 24, 2018
A retail company can have all the data in the world, but if executives are only looking at the surface level, so much consumer insight can be lost in those spreadsheets. The key to uncovering? Hire a digital anthropologist. For years, there was a notion that numbers are numbers — there's no room for humanÃâà...
The Independent
April 24, 2018
John Bolton, US President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, was on the board of what some critics have called an anti-Muslim think tank. The former US Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W Bush had served as the chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-basedÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 23, 2018
John Bolton presided over anti-Muslim think tank. The content of the advocacy group Gatestone is part of an echo chamber that includes Russian media. by Heidi Przybyla / Apr.23.2018 / 12:57 AM ET. National security adviser John Bolton, second from left, listens to President Donald Trump, far right, speak during a workingÃâà...
Peninsula Daily News
April 23, 2018
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council has winnowed down a host of issues into four main focus areas in its first “think tank.” The four items ... Council think tanks will be held the second Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the City Council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. The purpose of theÃâà...
HeraldScotland
April 15, 2018
The think-tank, which has the backing of Gavin Barwell, the PM's Chief of Staff, will draw up policies aimed at bolstering the Conservative Government and will feed into the Tory manifesto for the 2022 election. Will Tanner, a former aide to Mrs May, is Onward's director. It will launch on May 21 - after whatÃâà...
Times of Malta
April 15, 2018
The Today Public Policy Institute (TPPI), the only independent non-partisan think-tank in Malta, has shut up shop due to a lack of funding, driven according to its director, by businesses' fear of government. Joseph Tabone, who has headed the institute since March 2017, told The Sunday Times of Malta thatÃâà...
University World News
April 14, 2018
The US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies – the only think tank in Washington DC devoted to Korean Peninsula issues – will close next month after a dispute over funding and academic independence with the government in Seoul, writes Anna Fifield for TheÃâà...
Rocky Mountain Collegian
April 14, 2018
The Office of the Vice President for Diversity hosted the “Think Tank: Free Speech Summit” on Friday, April 13 to discuss free speech within college campuses. The event began with opening speeches from Dr. Shannon Archibeque-Engle, director of assessment and strategic initiatives for the VPD, andÃâà...
9news.com.au
April 2, 2018
Australia can have a reliable, clean energy grid, but not if investment in coal continues, a major Australian think tank says. A new group within the coalition has formed to promote coal-fired power, but Australia Institute executive director Ben Oquist says coal is "on the way out". Coal is increasinglyÃâà...
Citifmonline
April 2, 2018
The Upper West Regional Hospital is in dire need of government's attention to address the facility's human and logistical constraints hindering effective healthcare delivery. The challenges facing the Hospital have caught the attention of stakeholders including the Savannah Development, a policy think tank,Ãâà...
WWD
April 2, 2018
Retail is entering a new era in which innovation and understanding the consumer are key to surviving in a time of rapid change. The pace is faster than it ever has been, and it's important to remember that we will never move this slow again. That means embracing change and harnessing massive amountsÃâà...
Healthcare IT News
April 2, 2018
The third gathering of the Health Innovation Think Tank brought together a diverse group of leaders, innovators and policy makers to identify best practices that can move the industry toward key clinical models associated with value-based care, connected health and virtual care. This unique meeting of theÃâà...
Voice of America
April 1, 2018
You may have heard the term "think tank," which usually refers to a policy or research institute where scholars provide insight and advice on political, social or economic issues. Such institutions have been criticized in the past for their outsized influence on U.S. policy formulation. But there's new researchÃâà...
KOB
March 31, 2018
Now the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the Supreme Court to review a 2017 court ruling. It all started with a frantic call to police on Oct. 4, 2011 reporting a driver turning his lights off and on, and driving recklessly. That call would lead State Police officers to a secluded home inÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 23, 2018
A veteran economist has been appointed president of China's top think-tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), amid an ongoing reshuffle of senior officials. Xie Fuzhan, who has extensive experience in government think tanks, will return to Beijing from central Henan province, where heÃâà...
Xinhua
March 23, 2018
BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday stressed the importance of building national top think tanks for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. A pilot project has made progress and the influence of China topÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 23, 2018
Dayana Schonwalder is a volcano expert, who traveled extensively while working on her doctorate in geological sciences at the University at Buffalo seven years ago. She now works as a research fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, focusing on researching a crater left by a meteorite that struckÃâà...
Indianapolis Business Journal
March 23, 2018
In actuality, only a handful of think tanks are recognized as operating without a liberal or conservative bias. When you hear an opinion expressed by a think tank or someone claiming to be an expert, please do not blindly accept it—question that opinion, review the background and, most important, continueÃâà...
Source
March 22, 2018
The CSU Office of The Vice President for Diversity and Colorado Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education invite students, faculty and staff to attend “Think Tank: Free Speech Summit” for a day with a presidential panel as well as morning and afternoon breakout sessions on April 13. The event isÃâà...
Marijuana Business Daily
March 22, 2018
The province expects to sell recreational cannabis through 40 government-run stores this year, which will leave “a ton of room for the black market to continue operating,” Rosalie Wyonch, a policy analyst with economic think tank C.D. Howe Institute, told Marijuana Business Daily. Ontario's relatively fewÃâà...
WWD
March 21, 2018
Today's shopper is undeniably mobile, and retailers who have been slow to adapt should take notice. Mobile accounted for 60 percent of traffic to retail sites and nearly 40 percent of orders in the fourth quarter of 2017 — an all-time high. For the first time in history, the majority of Christmas Day orders wereÃâà...
Branding in Asia Magazine
March 21, 2018
One of Japan's largest production companies, AOI Pro., has acquired a major stake in Southeast Asia production group Directors Think Tank (DTT). Directors Think Tank was established in Malaysia in 2007 but has since gone on to open offices throughout SE Asia including Singapore and Indonesia.
CBC.ca
March 21, 2018
A little over a month since Gerald Stanley was acquitted in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, a group of prominent academic lawyers are promising a deep dive into the Saskatchewan trial. Stanley is the Biggar-area farmer who was charged with second-degree murder after Boushie, 22, was shot on hisÃâà...
BBC News
March 21, 2018
Proposals for a unitary authority for Suffolk could be put back on the table after a think-tank was appointed to review the options. Suffolk County Council has asked ResPublica to look at "the merits of Suffolk making a bid to the government for a reformed system". It said it wanted it to consider ways to "unlockÃâà...
The Times
March 20, 2018
Cutting trade tariffs completely when leaving the European Union would reduce prices in British shops by only 1.2 per cent, a think tank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that “simple arithmetic” suggested little scope for consumer prices to fall significantly after Brexit, despite the plan to leave theÃâà...
WWD
March 20, 2018
It seems that everywhere we turn today, marketers are jumping into the “subscription box” marketing strategy as a new way to engage customers and prospects. The data indicates today's shopper craves a direct relationship with brands they know and trust. The appeal of connecting on this deeper levelÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
March 20, 2018
UK think tank Parliament Street has lifted the lid on spending by police forces on training staff to deal with cyber crime and recommended greater collaboration in this regardÃâà...
The Guardian
March 20, 2018
Council tax is an outdated and regressive levy on households that should be scrapped in favour of a progressive levy on property, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation. The thinktank said council tax had become almost flat-rated in some areas to leave it resembling the much maligned poll taxÃâà...
WWD
March 20, 2018
CLTV — aka customer lifetime value — is a measure of the amount of revenue or profit generated by a customer over the course of a relationship. For marketers in the retail industry, few, if any, KPIs pack as much punch. But for many organizations, getting an accurate read on CLTV is difficult becauseÃâà...
Prospect
March 20, 2018
Anthony Fisher was the man who brought battery-farming to Britain. It may have been a cruel practice, but it was a transformatively efficient one—it turned chicken from a luxury into a British staple, and made this old Etonian fabulously rich along the way. His big ideas did not stop there, however. At the endÃâà...
The Fiscal Times
March 9, 2018
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities warned Friday that restoring cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurance companies participating in the Obamacare markets could end up doing more harm than good. Restoring the payments is part of the bipartisan bill sponsored by Sens.
FEDweek
March 9, 2018
The conservative Heritage Foundation believes Defense Department statistics that show as many as 71 percent of all U.S. citizens between ages 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve in the military — a statistic that poses a significant threat to national security. “If only 29 percent of the nation's young adults areÃâà...
KTAR.com
March 9, 2018
A refugee is quite different from other immigrants to this country. This week, the Think Tank explores the experiences of refugees in Arizona, past and present. We have two guests: Jani Deng was a refugee from South Sudan who came to the U.S. about 20 years ago as one of a group then known as theÃâà...
Broadway World
March 9, 2018
Leaders from more than a dozen global cities will gather in Austin March 15 and 16 for the second annual Music Cities Think Tank, a community of practice that invites leaders in the Music Cities movement to share ideas, compare strategies and build knowledge. In addition to the Live Music Capital, citiesÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
March 9, 2018
Read more Security Think Tank articles about dealing with fileless malware. How to tackle fileless malware attacks. Social engineering at the heart of fileless malware attacks. Aim to detect and contain fileless malware attacks quickly. Multi-layered security key to fileless malware defence. There are many other threatÃâà...
