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This article, based on research conducted in Jordan, discusses how favoritism affects the business climate. Jordan's business climate is mediocre in international and regional comparison, making it insufficient in light of the country's small domestic market. Businesspeople consider the complexity of administrative procedures to be a main problem for investors, along with a lack of fairness and predictability in administrative decisions. Favoritism, which is referred to as "using wasta," (connections) contributes substantially to both problems. Investors with good wasta can speed up procedures and get exclusive access to services and information. They can even influence legislation to their advantage. Perhaps even more problematic, entrepreneurs tend to invest their time and money in so...
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..., such as universities? How does legislation apply to records created for research purposes? Wh...
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In this document, the Commission seeks comment on the implementation of certain provisions in sections 716, 717, and 718 of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), the most significant piece of accessibility legislation since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Specifically, this document seeks comment on whether to adopt a permanent exemption for small entities that provide advanced communications services (ACS). The document also seeks comment on implementing section 718 of the Act which requires Internet browsers built into mobile phones to be accessible to and usable by persons who are blind or have a visual impairment, unless doing so is unachievable. This inquiry includes the recordkeeping and enforcement requirem...
... services, and the accessibility of information content. The CVAA attempts to bring existing commu...
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The Federal Trade Commission, the main government agency responsible for protecting privacy, on Monday called for legislation that would give consumers access to information collected about them by data brokers similar to the rights they now have to review information amassed by credit reporting agencies. The recommendation was made as the FTC issued the final version of a privacy-policy framework it put forward for comment in December 2010. But the initial version, which also called on industry to create an easily available "do not track" mechanism to protect online privacy, stopped short of urging specific actions by Congress.
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State Rep. Fred Kessler (D-Milwaukee) and other state legislators want to create a special class of people in Wisconsin. Under a bill Kessler has co-sponsored, only court officials, law enforcement personnel, attorneys and journalists would have unlimited access to online court records. Under the bill, members of state media associations and "any other Wisconsin media organization designated by the director of state courts" would be free to use the online system unfettered.
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Mark Hanson chalks it up to "my own selfish interest." After telling Isthmus last week he "wouldn't have any objection" to proposed state legislation that would reduce access to public information, Madison's city assessor registered at a hearing in opposition. The city assessor's website got 101.312 page views for property details in July 2009 alone. The impact of AB-349 on local governments has been deemed "indeterminate" but includes "the cost of responding to the public to access paper records." - B.L.
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MAKING ITS WAY through the halls of the Statehouse in Trenton is proposed legislation known as the "Right to Repair" bill (A-803/S-1334). Allegedly, the proposed bill would force vehicle manufacturers to provide vehicle owners and repair facilities with the information necessary to diagnose, service or repair a motor vehicle. [...] Consumer Reports maga- zine published an article on this issue stating "the proponents' own data and congressional testimony show that the problem the bill reports to address has already been solved." While being promoted as a solution that would help small repair facilities and their customers get access to repair codes, this legislation is not narrowly focused on service information, but rather on a desire by after- market parts manufacturers to obtain sen...
