Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Politics–Multimedia Archive
Source: Berkman Center at Harvard University
New, Institute of Politics Opens Up Video Archive to the Public
Wow!!! “The Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government today announced that video footage of nearly thirty years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum is now available on the IOP’s website. The IOP, which manages the Forum venue, has created the new online video archive featuring hundreds of speeches given by some of the world’s most prominent political speakers from 1978 to the present. The archive also offers visitors use of a search engine to fully explore its contents — making the expansive library’s material easy to access and use.”
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Cities–Economics–Statistics
Source: EIU
New Edition, Worldwide cost of living survey
Highlights Only. “After 14 years at the top Tokyo has been overtaken by Oslo as the world’s costliest city in the latest findings from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide cost of living survey. Elsewhere an improving economic outlook has pushed Brazilian cities up the ranking and Asian cities make up many of the cheapest destinations.”
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Internet Usage–Statistics
Source: Clickz, Nielsen//NetRatings
Active Home Web Use by Country, December 2005
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Cybersquatting–Statistics
Source: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO Responds to Significant Cybersquatting Activity in 2005
“The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) saw a 20% increase in the number of cybersquatting (abusive registration of trademarks as domain names) cases filed in 2005 as compared to 2004. In 2005, a total of 1,456 cybersquatting cases were filed with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center. This increase represents the highest number of cybersquatting cases handled by the WIPO Center since 2001.”
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DoD Contractors–Lists & Rankings
Source: Department of Defense Personnel and Procurement, Statistical Information Analysis Division
100 Companies Receiving The Largest Dollar Volume Of Prime Contract Awards – Fiscal Year 2005
“This report presents summary data on the 100 companies, and their subsidiaries, receiving the largest dollar volume of Department of Defense (DoD) prime contract awards during fiscal year (FY) 2005. Table 1 lists the 100 companies in alphabetical order and gives their associated rank. Table 2 identifies the parent companies in rank order, with their subsidiaries, and gives the total net value of awards for both the parent company and its subsidiaries. In many cases, the parent company receives no awards itself, but appears on the list because of its subsidiaries. Table 2 also shows what percentage of the total awards each company’s awards represent. Table 3 lists the top 100 companies DoD-wide in rank order and breaks the totals into three categories of procurement: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E); Other Services and Construction; and Supplies and Equipment. Table 4 lists the top 50 companies for each of the Reporting Components in rank order, and by category of procurement.” (via DocuTicker)

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