title:TSEP's Handbook on Third Sector European Policy has been published

Submitted by joel on

"Handbook on Third Sector European Policy: Multi-level Processes and OrganizedCivil Society" has now been published by Edward Elgar in the UK and most of the rest of the world. (It will be published in the US in February. 2010)

This volume is the culmination of seven years of research  by the Third Sector European Policy (TSEP)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/tsep/

title:BBC - Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'

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"many nations were now arming to defend themselves in a cyber war and readying forces to conduct their own attacks."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8363175.stm

The original analysis of "netwar" (Arquilla and Ronfeldt at RAND) saw the threat from different angles:

Networks and Netwars
The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/

title:ISO 2600 - voluntary guidance standard on social responsibility

Submitted by joel on

ISO 2600 - voluntary guidance standard on social responsibility
ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, has decided to launch the development of an International Standard providing guidelines for social responsibility (SR).

The guidance standard will be published in 2010 as ISO 26000 and be voluntary to use. It will not include requirements and will thus not be a certification standard.

title:virtual meetings update, second life etc

Submitted by joel on

As travel budgets are squeezed and slashed in the recession, companies are increasingly seeking innovative ways of bringing employees together for conferences and meetings remotely.

Virtual community Second Life is seeking to tap into that market by creating a new tool that allows businesses to have virtual meetings on their own computer networks.

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