Social Implications of Emerging Technologies Publications
The Cost of Producing Electronic Documents in Civil Lawsuits: Can They Be Sharply Reduced Without Sacrificing Quality? — 2012
According to a RAND study, document review makes up 73 percent of discovery costs. Predictive coding is the most promising option for cutting costs without compromising the quality of the process.
Creating an Innovation System for Knowledge City — 2012
Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District. This report introduces innovation systems and clusters, describes the factors that led to the successes of Silicon Valley, the life sciences corridor in Maryland, and the Israeli technology cluster, and uses findings from those cases and other research to outline the steps GDD will need to take to make Knowledge City a success.
Creating an Innovation System for Knowledge City: Chinese Translation — 2012
Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District. This report introduces innovation systems and clusters, describes the factors that led to the successes of Silicon Valley, the life sciences corridor in Maryland, and the Israeli technology cluster, and uses findings from those cases and other research to outline the steps GDD will need to take to make Knowledge City a success.
Keeping Law Enforcement Connected: Information Technology Needs from State and Local Agencies — 2012
The National Institute of Justice strives to assist criminal justice practitioners through research, development, and evaluation of technologies and methods. RAND researchers interviewed an extensive sample group to assess priorities at the state and local levels, the means by which those agencies commonly receive information on technology, and the effectiveness of outreach by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center.
An Outline of Strategies for Building an Innovation System for Knowledge City — 2012
Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District that will host innovative industries and their workers. This report serves as an outline for a set of strategies for Knowledge City and is intended to help the developers create conditions that are conducive to innovation and the commercialization of new technologies.
An Outline of Strategies for Building an Innovation System for Knowledge City: Chinese Translation — 2012
Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District that will host innovative industries and their workers. This report serves as an outline for a strategy for Knowledge City and is intended to help the developers create conditions that are conducive to innovation and the commercialization of new technologies.
Where the Money Goes: Understanding Litigant Expenditures for Producing Electronic Discovery — 2012
This monograph provides a richly detailed account of the resources required by a diverse set of very large companies operating in different industries to comply with what they described as typical electronic-discovery requests and suggests ways to reduce those costs, as well as address concerns about duties to preserve data in anticipation of litigation.
Advancing Aeronautics: A Decision Framework for Selecting Research Agendas — 2011
What aeronautics research should be supported by the U.S. government? What compelling and desirable benefits drive that research? How should the government make these decisions? The authors develop a unified decisionmaking approach for addressing these questions. This framework quantifies the social and economic reasons for the research, balances competing perspectives, and enables transparent explanation of the resulting decisions.
Influences on the Adoption of Multifactor Authentication — 2011
Passwords are proving less and less capable of protecting computer systems from abuse. Multifactor authentication (MFA) — which combines something you know (e.g., a PIN), something you have (e.g., a token), and/or something you are (e.g., a fingerprint) — is increasingly being required. This report investigates why organizations choose to adopt or not adopt MFA — and where they choose to use it.
The Global Technology Revolution China, In-Depth Analyses: Emerging Technology Opportunities for the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) (Chinese-language version) — 2009
China's Tianjin Binhai New Area and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area commissioned a technology-foresight study to help them plan for economic growth. The authors recommend seven emerging technology applications (TAs) — solar energy, mobile communications, rapid bioassays, new water-purification systems, molecular-scale drugs, electric and hybrid vehicles, and green manufacturing — and describe drivers, barriers, and plans for each.
The Global Technology Revolution China, In-Depth Analyses: Emerging Technology Opportunities for the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) — 2009
China's Tianjin Binhai New Area and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area commissioned a technology-foresight study to help them plan for economic growth. The authors recommend seven emerging technology applications (TAs) — solar energy, mobile communications, rapid bioassays, new water-purification systems, molecular-scale drugs, electric and hybrid vehicles, and green manufacturing — and describe drivers, barriers, and plans for each.
Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal: Prospects and Policy Issues — 2008
Large U.S. coal reserves and viable technology make promising a domestic industry producing liquid fuels from coal. Weighing benefits, costs, and environmental issues, a productive and robust U.S. strategy is to promote a limited amount of early commercial experience in coal-to-liquids production and to prepare the foundation for managing associated greenhouse-gas emissions, both in a way that reduces uncertainties and builds future capabilities.
Nanomaterials in the Workplace: Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health — 2006
What are the challenges the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and related federal agencies face when allocating limited resources so that worker health and safety go hand in hand with innovation and technical progress? This was the central issue addressed at a workshop on nanotechnology and occupational safety and health hosted by RAND. This document draws on discussions during the workshop and places them within a policy framework for further consideration by NIOSH.
The Role of Energy Efficiency in Homebuying Decisions: Results of Initial Focus Group Discussions — 2006
Focus-group discussions of homeowners were analyzed to assess the role of energy efficiency in their home-purchase decisions.
Privacy in the Workplace: Case Studies on the Use of Radio Frequency Identification in Access Cards — 2005
Companies use RFID workplace access cards to do more than just open doors (e.g., for enforcing rules governing workplace conduct). Explicit, written policies about how such cards are used generally do not exist, and employees are not told about whatever policies are being followed.
Project Libra Optimizing Individual and Public Interests in Information Technology — 2004
This document describes the vision for a program of research to investigate policy implications of emerging information technologies.
Biometrics: A Look at Facial Recognition — 2003
RAND analyst John D. Woodward, Jr. presented this briefing to the Virginia State Crime Commission Facial Recognition Sub-committee in September 2002. This briefing defines biometrics and discusses examples of the technology, explaining how biometrics may be used for authentication and surveillance purposes. Facial recognition is examined in depth. It concludes with a discussion of the legal status quo with respect to public sector use of facial recognition.
Building Better Homes: Government Strategies for Promoting Innovation in Housing — 2003
This report examines the structure, characteristics, and motivations of major participants in the housing industry to explore how innovation might be accelerated. It identifies options and strategies for the federal government to consider as it attempts to further advance innovation in housing to make homes more affordable, durable, and safe. Innovation in housing would provide benefits to a broad range of participants, including homebuilders, manufacturers, insurers, regulators, and homeowners.
Case Studies of Existing Human Tissue Repositories: "Best Practices" for a Biospecimen Resource for the Genomic and Proteomic Era — 2003
Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and proteomics-based cancer research and to identify “best practices” in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical concerns, informed consent, business plans, operations, intellectual property rights, public relations, marketing, and education that would be useful in designing a national biospecimen network.
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission: Contributing to Public Policy — 2003
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) was established in 1995 to advise various government entities on issues arising from research on human biology and behavior. During its five-year tenure, NBAC submitted six reports to the White House containing 120 recommendations on several complex bioethical issues including the cloning of human beings and embryonic stem cell research. This study assesses NBAC’s contribution to policymaking by tracking the response to NBAC’s recommendations from the president, Congress, government, societies and foundations, other countries, and international groups.
Information and Biological Revolutions: Global Governance Challenges — Summary of a Study Group — 2000
Summarizes the issues that arose and the discussions held during the meetings of a 1998-1999 study group focusing on global governance of information technology and biotechnology.
Information Technology in the Home: Barriers, Opportunities, and Research Directions — 2000
Information Technology in the Home: Barriers, Opportunities, and Research Directions
The Role of Information Technology in Housing Design and Construction — 2000
The Role of Information Technology in Housing Design and Construction
The Role of Technical Standards in Today’s Society and in the Future — 2000
Testimony presented before the Committee on Science Subcommittee on Technology United States House of Representatives on September 13, 2000.
Scaffolding the New Web: Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economy — 2000
Although much of the growing digital economy rests on the Internet and World Wide Web, which in turn rest on information technology standards, it is unclear how much longer the current momentum can be sustained absent new standards.
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