Owl: Visual Analytics – corruption, fraud, waste and abuse

Screen-friendly report: Visual analytics; Revealing corruption, fraud, waste and abuse For entities around the globe, identifying potential fraud and corruption activities in large volumes of data has historically been difficult and quite costly. More often than not, the rich insights within that data may be difficult to identify by traditional means and remain hidden. Against …

Josh Kilbourn: Bush-Obama End Financial Prosecutions

US Federal Prosecutions For Financial Fraud In the Obama Administration Fall to Record Lows Jesse’s Cafe Americain, 16 November 2011 The declines in US Federal prosecutions for financial fraud  that began under G.W. Bush have followed that down trend that in the first three years of the Obama Administration. That might make more sense if Obama …

Reference: The Privatization [Corruption] of Democracy – Honoring & Documenting the Work of Eva Waskell

I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …