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The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)
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ISIS's Use of Social Media Still Poses a Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Africa
Antonia Ward @antoniahward
Dec 11, 2018
Georgetown Security Studies Review
The importance of social media in projecting violent extremist propaganda and recruiting foreign fighters is well documented. As ISIS attempts to regroup and recuperate, investigating its strategic use of information and communication technologies in its communication with civilians could be important to understanding the group's plans to regain territorial control.
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Cybersecurity
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When Cyber Attacks Occur, Who Should Investigate?
John S. Davis II, Jonathan William Welburn @jwwelburn, Benjamin Boudreaux, Jair Aguirre
Dec 6, 2018
United Press International
Data breaches and cyberattacks cross geopolitical boundaries, targeting individuals, corporations and governments. Creating a global body with a narrow focus on investigating and assigning responsibility for cyberattacks could be the first step to creating a digital world with accountability.
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Information Operations
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And, By the Way, They Were All Women: RAND Hosts Forum on 21st-Century Warfare Honoring Roberta Wohlstetter
Nov 26, 2018
National security experts, flag officers, and decisionmakers attended the Roberta Wohlstetter Forum on National Security at RAND's Washington office on October 24. The featured speakers, moderators, organizers, donor, and namesake for the event were all women.
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Social and Emotional Learning
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Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers
Laura S. Hamilton @HamiltonLauraS, Brian M. Stecher
Nov 7, 2018
The Measuring SEL Blog
To teach something effectively, educators need to determine whether their instructional approaches are working, and make adjustments to those approaches as needed. The Assessment Work Group and RAND have developed tools to assist educators in finding and using assessments to measure social and emotional learning and higher-order cognitive competencies.
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Transportation Safety
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The New AV Challenge: Creating a Universal Safety Framework
Marjory S. Blumenthal @marjorysb
Nov 2, 2018
Axios
Autonomous vehicle developers are pursuing different safety strategies and technologies, making different claims, in different ways, about their systems. A universal framework could provide a more consistent and transparent view of progress in AV safety within and across the industry, better informing the public and policymakers.
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Nuclear Sciences
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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships
Oct 29, 2018
RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is January 14, 2019. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.
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Cybersecurity
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Financial Frameworks for Cybersecurity Are Failing
Cortney Weinbaum @cortney_dc, Igor Mikolic-Torreira, Don Snyder
Oct 25, 2018
The RAND Blog
Cybersecurity has become a team sport with all participants on the field, but playing without clear rules, without a team approach, and without knowing when to pass the ball or to whom. It's the collective responsibility of consumers, technology companies, government officials, and schools.
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Discriminatory Practices
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Intentional Bias Is Another Way Artificial Intelligence Could Hurt Us
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Oct 22, 2018
Scientific American
Conversations about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focus on algorithms unintentionally causing disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society. But the problem could run much deeper. Society should be on guard for the possibility that nefarious actors could deliberately introduce bias into AI systems.
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Supply Chain Management
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Examining the Weak Spots in Tech's Supply Chain Armor
Lillian Ablon @LilyAblon
Oct 16, 2018
WorldPost (The Washington Post)
When an attack on the supply chain occurs, manufacturers and purchasers should be better positioned to respond and recover. Even the simplest devices can rely on parts from multiple suppliers, which may have their own suppliers and so on. But every supplier, no matter how small, represents a potential weak link in the chain.
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Health Information Privacy
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The Perils of Connecting Our Bodies to the Internet
Mary Lee
Oct 15, 2018
The WorldPost (Washington Post)
High-tech health care solutions are part of an emerging sector of medical technologies that monitor personal health data by essentially connecting your body to the Internet. As smart devices in health care evolve, the line between human and machine is blurring, and creating new concerns about consumer safety and privacy rights.
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Global Climate Change
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Mitigating India's Climate-Change Misery
Gulrez Shah Azhar
Oct 11, 2018
Project Syndicate
Despite years of dire forecasts, the international community has been unable to halt the steady climb in global temperatures, and it is the world's poorest who are paying the heaviest toll. As heat-related risks intensify, those living on the margins—in India and elsewhere—will need help to cope effectively.
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Aircraft Carriers
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Does Japan Need an Aircraft Carrier?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Oct 5, 2018
Defense One
Japan has not possessed an aircraft carrier in more than 70 years. But that may soon change as the Japanese government is debating retrofitting a class of destroyers to turn them into aircraft carriers. Considering both operational needs and resources limitations, does an aircraft carrier for Japan make sense?
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Electronic Medical Records
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How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate
Ben Moscovitch, Robert S. Rudin @rsrudin
Oct 4, 2018
TechCrunch
Electronic health records have helped streamline record keeping but providers aren't always able to reliably pull together records for the same patient from different hospitals, clinics, and doctor's offices. The growing use of smartphones offers a promising opportunity to improve record matching.
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Cybersecurity
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Have a Victim Response Plan for Data Breaches
Sina Beaghley
Oct 2, 2018
The Wall Street Journal’s Cybersecurity Bulletin
In a large data breach, there could be a real risk to victims' financial or personal security. Though responsible organizations should do everything in their power to ensure data is protected in the first place, they also should prepare a plan to ensure prompt victim response.
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Civic Education
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Conversation at RAND: Truth Decay
Oct 2, 2018
The recent erosion of public trust in facts and institutions is not the first period of Truth Decay in U.S. history. What's different this time is the increasing disagreement about objective facts. Jennifer Kavanagh and William “Pat” Getty discussed the trend and how to stop it.
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The Elderly
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How AVs Could Provide Independence for Older Drivers
Laura Fraade-Blanar
Sep 21, 2018
Axios
Giving up driving has been linked to depression and isolation in older adults, as well as early entry into nursing home facilities. Autonomous vehicles could help improve the well-being of older adults by allowing them to maintain independence while still giving up their car keys.
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Science and Technology

ISIS's Use of Social Media Still Poses a Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Africa

When Cyber Attacks Occur, Who Should Investigate?

And, By the Way, They Were All Women: RAND Hosts Forum on 21st-Century Warfare Honoring Roberta Wohlstetter

Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers

The New AV Challenge: Creating a Universal Safety Framework

RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

Financial Frameworks for Cybersecurity Are Failing

Intentional Bias Is Another Way Artificial Intelligence Could Hurt Us

Examining the Weak Spots in Tech's Supply Chain Armor

The Perils of Connecting Our Bodies to the Internet

Mitigating India's Climate-Change Misery

Does Japan Need an Aircraft Carrier?

How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate

Have a Victim Response Plan for Data Breaches

Conversation at RAND: Truth Decay

How AVs Could Provide Independence for Older Drivers

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