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$Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software$

Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software

Brookings Institution Press, 2005

The field of software is awash in disputes. Market participants and analysts routinely disagree on how computer programs should be produced, marketed, regulated, and sold. On one subject, however, just about everyone can agree: the current intellectual property protection regime for software is a mess. At present, all of the traditional means...

Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

Brookings Institution Press, 2009

For seventy-seven days, from election day to inauguration day, the Obama-Biden Transition Project convened in a nondescript office building in northwest Washington, D.C. Most of the transition work involved sending expert volunteers into federal agencies to research and write briefing binders for the incoming department heads. In addition, seven...

The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation (Brookings FOCUS Book)

Brookings Institution Press, 2011

The digital revolution is in full force but many public and private sector leaders are stymied: How can they maximize the full potential of digital technology? This hesitancy puts a brake on the transformational power of digital technology and means private companies and governmental bodies fall well behind other digital pioneers....

Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World: How ChangeCasting Builds Trust, Creates Understanding, and Accelerates Organizational Change (Innovations in Leadership (Hardcover))

Brookings Institution Press, 2010

Recent advances in Web 2.0 technology enable new leadership processes and guidelines that can create great value for organizations. In this important new book—the first title in the new Brookings series on Innovations in Leadership—management expert Jackson Nickerson proposes a combination of processes and guidelines...

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Brookings Institution Press, 2019

“We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.”—U.S. Defense Department official

A new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently:

A computer virus is unleashed that...

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