RAND played a pivotal role in emerging technologies throughout the 20th century, from satellites and computers to information-sharing systems, packet switching, and artificial intelligence. RAND now explores the policy implications of emerging technologies across a broad scope of areas such as patient outcomes and health care quality; energy and environmental standards; privacy; military weapon systems; and training teachers and students in the 21st century.
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Companies could lower the high cost of large-scale electronic discovery in lawsuits by using a computer application known as predictive coding to reduce the number of documents requiring human review.
Research Brief
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.
Announcement
International Privacy Day celebrates the day in 1981 that the first international convention on privacy was signed. Research by RAND Europe illustrates the complexities of maintaining privacy protections while supporting the legitimate use of personal data for economic and social purposes.
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Social media was used in the 2009 protests to organize and communicate under government censorship. An analysis of more than 2.5 million tweets discussing the Iran election holds promise for such policy uses as assessing public opinion and forecasting events such as large-scale protests.
News Release
Researchers have developed a new method of eliciting and analyzing opinions from a large group of experts and laypeople to aid complex decisionmaking, adapting online and social media technologies to lower the cost of such activities while expanding the types of people who can be queried.
Report
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.
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Cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources—such as storage and applications—that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. RAND Europe explored the security, privacy, and trust challenges that cloud computing poses.
News Release
RAND has signed an agreement to help the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, to develop a strategic plan for a system of policies, incentives, and other practices to support technological innovation in Knowledge City, a planned new development for 300,000 residents.
Project
The European Commission's eGovernment benchmarking encourages excellence in government performance. The continuous collaboration of country representatives and the EC has created an atmosphere of friendly competition, shared learning, and benchmarked action amongst participants.
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Develops a unified decisionmaking approach for selecting aeronautics research agendas that quantifies the social and economic reasons for the research, balances competing perspectives, and enables transparent explanation of the resulting decisions.
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This paper highlights key points from a high-level Forum organised and facilitated by the Office of Health Economics and RAND Europe that discussed spillover effects from biomedical and health research, and strategies to realise their benefits.
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This report reviews European markets and applications of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) in healthcare, and identifies policy issues that need to be addressed by the European Union and other stakeholders.
Journal Article
Many e-books are merely an electronic image of a paper product; others broaden the spectrum of publishing. Examining three innovative digital texts demonstrates the potential and challenges of electronic publications.
Report
A paper on the allocation challenges facing funders in the area mental health research. It provides an overview of research policy in the last 20-25 years and considers what approaches could build an evidence base to support future decisions.
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What is the role of government in a borderless internet world? RAND Europe assesses the implications for policy makers.
Project
Since 2003, Ofcom has overseen the broader UK communications market as a converged communications regulator. At the request of the National Audit Office, RAND Europe is evaluating Ofcom's performance compared with that of other international regulators that are dealing with similar challenges, such as next generation access networks and access to emergency services using voice-over-internet protocol.
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The report provides insight into Pan-European eGovernment services (PEGS): their definition; development trajectories; barriers, drivers, uncertainties, and possible futures, and suggests policy actions and ways to measure and monitor PEGS.
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To help policymakers understand the privacy, liberty, and security trade-offs individuals are willing to make, RAND Europe examined three real-life case studies where these factors come into play: applying for a passport, traveling on the national rail network, and attending a major public event.
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This report reviews technology trends underlying the future Internet Society 2020. It assesses possible future socio-economic impacts, and changing business models. The study makes recommendations for a new overarching EU ICT strategy.
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Bibliometrics is an increasingly important tool for research evaluation. The report provides an accessible, 'beginner's guide' to bibliometric theory and application in the area of health research and development (R&D) decision-making.
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