03/21/2007 - 03/22/2007

Public safety agencies must address Cultural and Technological barriers

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c52368) has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Government Technology - Fostering Interoperability in Public Safety Communications (Review Report) to their offering.

Public safety agencies struggle to enable first responders across disciplines, jurisdictions and levels of government to communicate during emergencies despite operating incompatible equipment. More than simply a radio or network issue, organizations must address the systemic and cultural barriers that inhibit cooperation in addition to the technology strategies that hinder interoperability.

Anthropologist's talk looks at communication types

USA: Author and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson will deliver the Sam Thompson Lecture at Monmouth College at 7 p.m. Monday in Kasch Performance Hall of the college's Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

In a lecture titled "Composing Community," Bateson will examine what kinds of communication can hold society together as it becomes more diverse and more subject to rapid change. The lecture is free and open to the public, as is a reception and book signing which follows.

Building support for the trailing spouse

Trailing partners often face a break in their careers as they follow their spouses to foreign destinations. For some, the prospect of not working is unacceptable; a three-week holiday is great, but a three-year pause may be too much of a good thing.

The experience of one British expat shows how women's networks help accompanying partners cope with mobile careers.

Chinese Website Translation Services Help EcoExpo Globalize Website

Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of document, software and website translation services, announced today that it has completed the Chinese translation and multilingual deployment of www.EcoExpo.com.

Eco Expo, a leading producer of expositions for environmental products, technologies, and services in the United States has now formed an alliance with CIEPEC, the official trade show of China's environmental industries. CIEPEC is the largest environmental industry event in China, boasting 270,000 square feet of exhibit space and a projected attendance of 60,000.

Word of the Day: clerisy

clerisy \KLER-uh-see\, noun:
The well educated class; the intelligentsia.

The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talk

Our academic clerisy, I'm sure, could point out factual inadequacies, along with examples of cultural bias. -- Robert D. Kaplan, "And Now for the News", The Atlantic, March 1999