Transformation through research? The AC+erm Project and Electronic Records Management

The article focuses on the three-year project being undertaken by Northumbria University in Northumbria, England and funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (ANRH) named as AC+erm. The AC+erm project is a qualitative study composed of three main phases including a comprehensive Systematic Literature Review, an investigation of the three aspects of designing an architecture for electronic records management (ERM), and distribution of findings. The primary data from selected experts are gathered through the Delphi technique8, developed by the Rand Corp. in the U.S., to formulate an opinion on the research topic. Further, it provides short analysis of the issues associated with Web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies.

TAMING THE TECHNOLOGICAL TYGERTHE REGULATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS -A SURVEY OF SOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES--PART ONE

This article reviews the significance placed on environmental factors in nuclear plant licensing during -the 1960s, first considering the effect of recent legislation and the status of current controversies, and then briefly discussing proposals for legislation and developments that can be expected in the near future

TAMING THE TECHNOLOGICAL TYGERTHE REGULATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS -A SURVEY OF SOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES--PART TWO

This article reviews the significance placed on environmental factors in nuclear plant licensing during -the 1960s, first considering the effect of recent legislation and the status of current controversies, and then briefly discussing proposals for legislation and developments that can be expected in the near future

Taming the Wild West: How the SEC Can Legitimize Initial Coin Offerings ( ICOs ), Protect Consumers from Bad Actors, and Encourage Blockchain Development

An Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) is the first time a blockchain-based company sells its cryptocurrency to the public. ICOs provide any blockchain entrepreneur the ability to quickly receive funding from anyone in the world. While ICOs show the potential to become a legitimate alternative to traditional early-stage investing, like angel investing and venture capital, ICOs are currently teeming with fraud and bad actors. Recent celebrity-endorsed ICOs have scammed customers, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been stolen from hard-working people. Anything goes in this current, unregulated ICO space. This article proposes five potential ICO-specific regulations for the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to pass in the next 12 months. First, the SEC should broaden the definition of a security to include utility tokens which will allow the SEC to have authority over this space. Second, allow companies conducting an ICO in the U.S. to satisfy a more lenient securities filing requirement. Third, allow people of all backgrounds to participate in ICOs, not just accredited or sophisticated investors. Fourth, create a private right of action for token buyers to sue blockchain companies who make fraudulent statements in its filed white paper or token registration. Finally, extend securities fraud liability to fraudulent ICO advertisements. The goal of these proposed regulations is to balance the needs of all parties involved: removing fraud from the market, prioritizing investor confidence and security, and increasing development of blockchain technology’s potential. While these regulations will not solve all cryptocurrency-related problems, passing them is a good first step

Taming the Wild West: The Time is Near for Congress to Intervene in Name, Image, and Likeness Deals for Collegiate Athletes

This note proposes a multifaceted approach for congressional intervention in the NIL market. While there are many areas needing NIL regulation in the collegiate athletic market, the most critical area of need for NIL regulation involves the collectives and directives. These entities have formed and operated without any meaningful guardrails since the NCAA permitted student-athletes to be compensated for their NIL. Additionally, they have been able to influence recruiting both at the high school recruit level and in the collegiate athlete transfer portal

Master of Arts

thesisDuring the early history of the National Parks, park managers throughout the United States developed communication networks within perceived spaces of wilderness in order to manage and tame the wildness of the landscape. Communication technologies connected remote locations within the National Parks to towns and cities hundreds of miles away, and made the solitude found in places of wilderness far less dangerous. With the development of advanced methods of communication like the telegraph and telephone, along with the help of trails, railroads, and paved roads, communication technologies allowed nineteenth and twentieth century tourists to experience sublime nature without disconnecting themselves from the safety and comfort of direct communication with the "outside world." By eliminating the necessity to travel through nature in order to communicate over long distances, the telegraph and telephone directly impacted the way people experienced and thought about nature during the nineteenth and twentieth century, and contributed to a more tame and controlled wilderness experience. My research explores the development of communication technologies in several National Parks throughout the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The correspondence of early park superintendents, along with the experiences of early visitors to the parks provides an invaluable look into the impact of communication technologies on the perception of wilderness in the early history of the National Parks, and the role they played in managing the landscape. This brief exploration is the first in what deserves to be an extensive examination of the historical impact of communication technologies on the human experience in nature, the search for the Romantic sublime, and the role that communication has had in the perceived dualism between wilderness and civilization in the history of the United States

Will 5G See its Blind Side? Evolving 5G for Universal Internet Access

Internet has shown itself to be a catalyst for economic growth and social equity but its potency is thwarted by the fact that the Internet is off limits for the vast majority of human beings. Mobile phones---the fastest growing technology in the world that now reaches around 80\% of humanity---can enable universal Internet access if it can resolve coverage problems that have historically plagued previous cellular architectures (2G, 3G, and 4G). These conventional architectures have not been able to sustain universal service provisioning since these architectures depend on having enough users per cell for their economic viability and thus are not well suited to rural areas (which are by definition sparsely populated). The new generation of mobile cellular technology (5G), currently in a formative phase and expected to be finalized around 2020, is aimed at orders of magnitude performance enhancement. 5G offers a clean slate to network designers and can be molded into an architecture also amenable to universal Internet provisioning. Keeping in mind the great social benefits of democratizing Internet and connectivity, we believe that the time is ripe for emphasizing universal Internet provisioning as an important goal on the 5G research agenda. In this paper, we investigate the opportunities and challenges in utilizing 5G for global access to the Internet for all (GAIA). We have also identified the major technical issues involved in a 5G-based GAIA solution and have set up a future research agenda by defining open research problems

Video Game Currency: Taming the Wild West of Video Game Economies

Do you know the value of digital currency? No, not bitcoin, but rather value generated in online gaming. While on the surface, online video gaming may seem like just another form of entertainment, the value these games are creating is intersecting with the real-world marketplace. The exchange of virtual wealth to real-life wealth is a tumultuous problem that has remained unaddressed by law since the inception of video games. This legal ignorance has left the market for videogame currency in a state reminiscent of the wild west; the wealth is guarded only by those who can protect themselves. Those who cannot protect themselves run the risk of being held up for items worth hundreds of hours of labor. As these markets grow, and assuming we think the online gaming space is worthy of promotion, society must grow with them. When society does decide to move on the issue, it might take a more fluid understanding of John Locke

On being part of the solution, not the problem: taking a proportionate approach to managing records

Purpose – This article seeks to provide a perspective on a future pathway for records management that is based on taking a proportionate approach rather than striving for perfection. This approach requires a re-interpretation of traditional principles and their application in practice and recognition of the predominance of people in successful information and records management in the digital domain. Design/methodology/approach – The views are the author's based on the headline findings of a major research project (AC+erm) which investigated issues and practical strategies for accelerating positive change in electronic records management. They incorporate views on contextual developments since the project, in particular the characteristics of today's hybrid and increasingly mobile office environment such as the use of recognition technologies. Findings – The ten headline findings of the AC+erm project are shared. Two strategic findings are highlighted, namely, articulating a vision of successful electronic records management and the approach to applying records management principles in order to realise that vision of success. The article then focuses on two of the other findings, about the need for information and records professionals to adopt proportionate and risk based approaches and to ensure they (the records professionals) are an essential part of the solution not the problem. Post the project, views on these and tactics for addressing them are discussed with reference to real examples and potential future research and development. Research limitations/implications – The research that provides the context for the article was qualitative and therefore its findings transferrable rather than generalisable. The views expressed about tactics for moving forward are intended to contribute to the debate about approaches to managing records in the democratic, digital domain. Practical implications – A proportionate approach to managing records by definition implies a risk-based approach. This may prove challenging in organizational, societal and cultural contexts that are risk averse. Originality/value – The research which underpins this article was the first on the subject to be conducted in the UK and adopted a unique evidence-based approach. Undertaken in the context of the “promise” of electronic document and records management systems, its findings are relevant in the broader systems solutions. They provide a context for this perspective on current and potential tactics for addressing strategic issues for managing records in the digital domain. This provides a significant contribution to knowledge and debate in this field