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Brown Bag: New Models of Scholarly Communication for Digital Scholarship, by Stephen Griffin, University of Pittsburgh
My colleague, Stephen Griffin, who is Visiting Professor and Mellon Cyberscholar at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, presented this talk as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series. Steve is an expert in Digital Libraries and has a broad perspective on the evolution of library and information science — having had a 32-year career at the National Science Foundation (NSF), as a Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. Steve lead the Interagency Digital Libraries Initiatives and International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research Programs, which supported many notable digital library projects (including my first large research project).
In his talk, below, Steve discusses how how research libraries can play a key and expanded role in enabling digital scholarship and creating the supporting activities that sustain it.
In his abstract, Steve describes his talk as follows:
Contemporary research and scholarship is increasingly characterized by the use of large-scale datasets and computationally intensive tasks. A broad range of scholarly activities is reliant upon many kinds of information objects, located in distant geographical locations expressed in different formats on a variety of mediums. These data can be dynamic in nature, constantly enriched by other users and automated processes.
Accompanying data-centered approaches to inquiry have been cultural shifts in the scholarly community that challenge long-standing assumptions that underpin the structure and mores of academic institutions, as well as to call into question the efficacy and fairness of traditional models of scholarly communication. Scholars are now demanding new models of scholarly communication that capture a comprehensive record of workflows and accommodate the complex and accretive nature of digital scholarship. Computation and data-intensive digital scholarship present special challenges in this regard, as reproducing the results may not be possible based solely on the descriptive information presented in traditional journal publications. Scholars are also calling for greater authority in the publication of their works and rights management.
Agreement is growing on how best to manage and share massive amounts of diverse and complex information objects. Open standards and technologies allow interoperability across institutional repositories. Content level interoperability based on semantic web and linked open data standards is becoming more common. Information research objects are increasingly thought of as social as well as data objects – promoting knowledge creation and sharing and possessing qualities that promote new forms of scholarly arrangements and collaboration. These developments are important to advance the conduct and communication of contemporary research. At the same time, the scope of problem domains can expand, disciplinary boundaries fade and interdisciplinary research can thrive.
This talk will present alternative paths for expanding the scope and reach of digital scholarship and robust models of scholarly communication necessary for full reporting. Academic research libraries will play a key and expanded role in enabling digital scholarship and creating the supporting activities that sustain it. The overall goals are to increase research productivity and impact, and to give scholars a new type of intellectual freedom of expression.
From my point of view, a number of themes ran through Steve's presentation:
- Grand challenges in computing have shifted focus from computing capacity to managing and understanding information; … and repositories have shifted from simple discovery towards data integration.
- As more information has become available the space of problems we can examine expands from natural sciences to other scientific areas — especially to a large array of problems in social science and humanities; but
… research funding is shifting further away from social sciences and humanities.
- Reproducibiity has become a crisis in sciences; and
… reproducibility requires a comprehensive record of the research process and scholarly workflow
- Data sharing and support for replication still occurs primarily at the end of the scientific workflow
… accelerating the research cycle requires integrating sharing of data and analysis in much earlier stages of workflow, towards a continually open research process.
Steve's talk includes a number of recommendations for libraries. First and foremost to my view is that libraries will need to act as partners with scientists in their research, in order to support open science, accelerated science, and the integration of information management and sharing workflows into earlier stages of the research process. I agree with this wholeheartedly and have made it a part of the mission of our Program.
The talk suggests a set of specific priorities for libraries. I don't think one set of priorities will fit all set of research libraries — because pursuit of projects is necessarily, and appropriately opportunistic — and depends on the competitive advantage of the institutions involved and the needs of local stakeholders. However, I would recommend adding rapid fabrication, scholarly evaluation, crowdsourcing, library publishing, long-term access generally to the list of priorities in the talk.
Steve's talk makes the point Libraries will need to act as partners with scientists in their research, in order to support accelerated science, that integration information management and reproducibility into earlier stages of the research process.
Redistricting and Technology
This talk, presented as guest lecture in Ron Rivest's and Charles Stewart's class on Elections and Technology, reflects on the use of technology in redistricting, and lessons learned about open data, public participation, technology, and data management from conducting crowd-sourced election mapping efforts.
Some observations:
- On technical implementation: There is still a substantial gap between the models and methods used in technology stack, and that used in mapping and elections. The domain of electoral geography deals with census, and administrative units; legally defined relationships among units; randomized interventions — where GIS deals with polygons, layers, and geospatial relationships. These concept often maps — with some exceptions — and in political geography, one can run into a lot of problems if one doesn't pay attention to the exceptions. For example, spatial contiguity is often the same as legal contiguity, but not always — and implementing the "not always" part implies a whole set of separate data structures, algorithms, and interfaces.
- On policy & transparency: We often assume that transparency is satisfied by making the rules (the algorithm) clear, and the inputs to the rules (the data) publicly available. In election technology, however, code matters too — its impossible to verify or correct implementation of an algorithm without the code; and the form of the data matters — transparent data containing complete information, in accessible formats, available through a standard API, accompanied by documentation, and evidence of authenticity.
- On policy & participation: Redistricting plans are a form of policy proposal. Technology is necessary to enable of richer participation in redistricting — it enables individuals to make complete, coherent alternative proposals to those offered by the legislature. Technology is not sufficient, although the courts sometimes pay attention to these publicly submitted maps, legislatures have strong incentives to act in self-interested ways. Institutional changes are needed before fully participative redistricting becomes a reality.
- On policy implementation: engagement with existing grass-roots organizations and the media was critical for participation. Don't assume that if you build it, anyone will come…
- On methodology: Crowd-sourcing enables us to sample from plans that are discoverable by humans — this is really useful as unbiased random-sampling of legal redistricting plans is not feasible. By crowd-sourcing large sets of plans we can examine the achievable trade-offs among redistricting criteria, and conduct a "revealed preference" analysis to determine legislative intent.
- Ad-hoc, miscellaneous, preliminary observations: Field experiments in this area are hard — there are a lot of moving parts to manage — creating the state of the practice, while meeting the timeline of politics, while working to keep the methodology (etc.) clean enough to analyze later. And always remember Kransberg's 1rst law: technology is neither good nor bad — neither is it neutral.
We've also written quite a few articles, book chapters, etc. on the topic that expand on many of these topics.
Examples of Big Data and Privacy Problems
Personal information continues to become more available, increasingly easy to link to individuals, and increasingly important for research. New laws, regulations and policies governing information privacy continue to emerge, increasing the complexity of management. Trends in information collection and management — cloud storage, "big" data, and debates about the right to limit access to published but personal information complicate data management, and make traditional approaches to managing confidential data decreasingly effective.
The slides below provide an overview changing landscape of information privacy with a focus on the possible consequences of these changes for researchers and research institutions.
Personal information continues to become more available, increasingly easy to link to individuals, and increasingly important for research, and was originally presented as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.
Across the emerging examples of data and big prvacy, a number of different challenges recur that appear to be novel to big data, and which drew the attention of the attending experts. In our privacy research collaborations we have started to assign names for these privacy problems for easy reference:
- The "data density" problem — many forms of "big" data used in computational social science measure more attributes, contain more granularity and provide richer and more complex structure than traditional data sources. This creates a number of challenges for traditional confidentiality protections including:
- Since big data often has quite different distributional properties from "traditional data", traditional methods of generalization and suppression cannot be used without sacrificing large amounts of utility.
- Traditional methods concentrate on protecting tabular data. However, computational social science increasingly makes use of text, spatial traces, networks, images and data in a wide variety of heterogenous structures.
- The "data exhaust" problem – traditional studies of humans focused on data collected explicitly for that purpose. Computational social science increasingly uses data that is collected for other purposes. This creates a number of challenges, including:
- Access to "data exhaust" cannot easily be limited by the researcher – although a researcher may limit access to their own copy, the exhaust may be available from commercial sources; or similar measurements may be available from other exhaust streams. This increases the risk that any sensitive information linked with the exhaust streams can be reassociated with an individual.
- Data exhaust often produces fine-grained observations of individuals over time. Because of regularities in human behavior, patterns in data exhaust can be used to 'fingerprint' an individual – enabling potential reidentification even in the absence of explicit identifiers or quasi-identifiers.
- The "it's only ice cream" problem – traditional approaches to protecting confidential data focus on protecting "sensitive" attributes, such as measures of disfavored behavior, or "identifying" attributes, such as gender or weight. Attributes such as "favorite flavor of ice cream" or "favorite foreign movie" would not traditionally be protected – and could even be disclosed in an identified form. However the richness, variety, and coverage of big data used in computational social science substantially increases the risk that any 'nonsensitive' attribute could, in combination with other publicly available, nonsensitive information, be used to identify an individual. This makes it increasingly difficult to predict and ameliorate the risks to confidentiality associated with release of the data.
- The "doesn't stay in Vegas" problem – in traditional social science research, most of the information used was obtained and used within approximately the same context – accessing information outside of its original context was often quite costly. Increasingly, computational social science uses information that was shared in a local context for a small audience, but is available in a global context, and to a world audience. This creates a number of challenges, including:
- The scope of the consent, whether implied or express, of the individuals being studied using new data sources may be unclear. And commercial service according to terms of service and privacy policies may not clearly disclose third-party research uses.
- Data may be collected over a long period of time under evolving terms of service and expectations
- Data may be collected across a broad variety of locations – each of which may have different expectations and legal rules regarding confidentiality.
- Future uses of the data and concomitant risks are not apparent at the time of collection, when notice and consent may be given.
- The "algorithmic discrimination" problem – in traditional social science, models for analysis and decision-making were human-mediated. The use of big data with many measures, and/or complex models (e.g. machine-learning models) or models lacking formal inferential definitions (e.g. many clustering models), can lead to algorithmic discrimination that is neither intended by nor immediately discernable to the researcher.
Our forthcoming working papers from the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data explore these issues in more detail.
Worldmap: A Spatial Infrastructure to Support Teaching and Research (Summary of the September Brown Bag Talk by Ben Lewis)
My colleague, Ben Lewis, who is system architect and project manager for WorldMap, created at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard presented this talk as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series. Ben is an expert in GIS systems and platforms and has developed many interesting tools in this area.
In his talk, below, Ben discusses the WorldMap platform (http://worldmap.harvard.edu), which is claimed to be the largest open source collaborative mapping system in the world, with over 13,000 map layers contributed by thousands of users from around the world. Researchers may upload large spatial datasets to the system, create data-driven visualizations, edit data, and control access. Users may keep their data private, share it in groups, or publish to the world. Ben discussed current work to create and maintain a global registry of map services and take us a step closer to one-stop-access for public geospatial data.
A number of themes ran through Ben's presentation:
- Space time coordinates are an organizing facet for a huge variety of human and natural information — everything that happens, happens at a particular time and place.
- Most of the geospatial web cannot be discovered through standard search engines. A major goal of Ben's projects is to expose this "dark geoweb", which he estimates to comprise millions of map layers.
- Libraries need to be increasingly savvy about space in choosing and developing platforms for discovery and analysis, so that their clients can benefit from advances in GIS services and platforms and geospatial collections.
10 Simple Steps to Building a Reputation as a Researcher, in Your Early Career
This talk was sponsored by the MIT Postdoctoral Association with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications researchers are faced with a rapidly growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Junior scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
In this talk, I briefly discuss a number of review of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, I suggest some steps junior researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public review and discussion.
My somewhat idiosyncratic recommendations are in three categories. The tactical, strategic, and "next steps":
Tactical Recommendations
- Identify and use opportunities to communicate:
- Accept invited talks, where practical
- Announce when you will be speaking, teaching
- Share your presentations, writings, and data
- Create a scholarly identit
- Obtain an ORCID, domain name, twitter handle, LinkeIn profile, Google Scholar profile
- Create a short bio and longer CV
- Develop a research theme, and signature idea
- Communicate broadly
- Publish writings as Open Access when possible
- Publish data and software as open data and open source
- Use social media (LinkedIN, Twitter) to announce new publications, teaching, speaking
- Develop communications skills early
- Take writing lessons early
- Take public speaking lessons early
- Monitor your impact
- Monitor news, citation, social media metrics, and altmetrics that reflect the impact of your work
- Keep records
- Do this systematically, regularly, but not reactively or obsessively
- Focus on Clarity and Significance
- Do research that is important to you and that you think is important to the world
- When writing about your research, work to maximize clarity – including in abstracts, titles, and citations
- Give credit generously
- Cite software you use
- Cite data on which your analyses rely
- Don't be afraid to cite your own work
- Discuss authorship early, and document contributions publicly
Unordered Strategic Recommendations
- Do research that is important to you and that you think is important to the world
- Manage your research program – find a core theme, a signature idea, and regularly review comparative strengths, comparative weaknesses, timely opportunities and future threats
- Collaborate with people you respect, and like working with, start with small steps
- Take a positive and sustained interest in the work and career of others, this is the foundation of professional networking
- Make a moderate, but systematic effort to understand and monitor the institutions within which your work is embedded.
- Identify your core strengths. Build a career around those.
- Identify the weaknesses that are continual stumbling blocks. Make them good enough.
- Pay attention to your world: exercise, sleep, diet, stress, relationships
- Don't manage your time – manage your life: know your values, choose your priorities, monitor your progress
- Align your career with your core values
Ten Things to try right now…
Identify yourself
1. Register for an ORCID identifier
2. Register for information hubs: LinkedIN, Slideshare, and a domain name of your own
3. Register for Twitter
Describe yourself …
write these and post to your LinkedIN and ORCID Profiles
4. Write and share a 1-paragraph bio
5. Describe your research program in 2 paragraph
6. Create a CV
7. Share (on Twitter & LinkedIN) news about something you did or published; an upcoming event in which you will participate; interesting news and publications in your field
8. Make writing; data; publication; software available as Open Access (through your institutional repository, SlideShare,, Dataverse, FigShare)
check and record these things regularly, but not too frequently (once a month) — and no need to react or adjust immediately
9. Set up tracking of your citations, mentions, and topics you are interested in using Google scholar and Google alert,
10. Find your Klout score, H-index.
In the full presentation, I show how to gather impact data, review findings from bibliometric research on how to increase impact by choosing titles, venues, and the like; and consider the advice for success given by the scores of books I've scanned on this topic.
The full presentation is available here:
Developing good scholarly (alt)metrics.
To summarize, altmetrics should build on existing statistical and social science methods for developing reliable measures. The draft white paper from the NISO altmetrics project suggests many interesting potential action items, but does not yet incorporate, suggest or reference a framework for systematic definition or evaluation of metrics.
NISO offered a recent opportunity to comment on the draft recommendation on their 'Altmetrics Standards Project'. MIT is a non-voting NISO member, and I am the current 'representative' to NISO. The following is my commentary, on the draft recommendation. You may also be interested in reading the other commentaries on this draft.
Response to request for public comments on on 'NISO Altmetrics Standards Project White Paper '
Scholarly metrics should be broadly understood as measurement constructs applied to the domain of scholarly/research (broadly, any form of rigorous enquiry), outputs, actors, impacts (i.e. broader consequences), and the relationships among them. Most traditional formal scholarly metrics, such as the H-Index, Journal impact Factor, and citation count, are relatively simple summary statistics applied to the attributes of a corpus of bibliographic citations extracted from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. The Altmetrics movement aims to develop more sophisticated measures, based on a broader set of attributes, and covering a deeper corpus of outputs.
As the Draft aptly notes, in general our current scholarly metrics, and the decision systems around them are far from rigorous: "Unfortunately, the scientific rigor applied to using these numbers for evaluation is often far below the rigor scholars use in their own scholarship." [1]
The Draft takes a step towards a more rigorous understanding of alt metrics. It's primary contribution is to suggest a set of potential action items to increase clarity and understanding.
However, the Draft does not yet identify either the key elements of a rigorous (or systematic) foundation for defining scholarly metrics, their properties, and quality. Nor does the Draft identify key research in evaluation and measurement that provide a potential foundation. The aim of these comments is to start to fill this structural.
Informally speaking, good scholarly metrics are fit for use in a scholarly incentive system. More formally, most scholarly metrics are parts of larger evaluation and incentive systems, where the metric is used to support descriptive and predictive/causal inference, in support of some decision.
Defining metrics formally in this way also helps to clarify what characteristics of metrics are important for determining their quality and usefulness.
- Characteristics supporting any inference. Classical test theory is well developed in this area. [2] Useful metric supports some form of inference, and reliable inference requires reliablilty.[3] Informally, good metrics should yield the similar results across repeated measurements of the same purported phenomenon.
– Characteristics supporting descriptive inference. Since an objective of most incentive systems is descriptive, good measures must have appropriate measurement validity. [4] In informal terms, all measures should be internally consistent; and the metric should be related to the concept being measured.
– Characteristics supporting prediction or intervention. Since objective of most incentive systems is both descriptive and predictive/causal inference, good measures must aid accurate and unbiased inference. [5] In informal terms, the metric should demonstrably be able to increase the accuracy of predicting something relevant to scholarly evaluation.
– Characteristics supporting decisions. Decision theory is well developed in this area [6]: The usefulness of metrics is dependent on the cost of computing the metric, and the value of the information that the metric produces. The value of the information depends on the expected value of the optimal decisions that would be produced with and without that information. In informal terms, good metrics provide information that helps one avoid costly mistakes, and good metrics cost less than the expected of the mistakes one avoids by using them.
– Characteristics supporting evaluation systems. This is a more complex area, but the field of game theory and mechanism design are most relevant. Measures that are used in a strategic context must be resistant to manipulation — either (a) requiring extensive resources to manipulate, (b) requiring extensive coordination across independent actors to manipulate, or by (c) inventing truthful revelation. Trust engineering is another relevant area — characteristics such as transparency, monitoring, and punishment of bad behavior, among other systems factors, may have substantial effects. [8]
The above characteristics comprise a large part of the scientific basis for assessing the quality and usefulness of scholarly metrics. They are necessarily abstract, but closely related to the categories of action items already in the report. In particular to Definitions; Research Evaluation; Data Quality; and Grouping. Specifically, we recommend adding the following action items respectively:
- [Definitions] Develop specific definitions of altmetrics that are consistent with best practice in the social-science field on the development of measures
– [Research evaluation] – Promote evaluation of the construct and predictive validity of individual scholarly metrics, compared to the best available evaluations of scholarly impact.
– [Data Quality and Gaming] – Promote the evaluation and documentation of the reliability of measures, their predictive validity, cost of computing, potential value of information, and susceptibility to manipulation based on the resources available, incentives, or collaboration among parties.
[1] NISO Altmetrics Standards Project White Paper, Draft 4, June 6 2014; page 8
[2] See chapter 5-7 in Raykov, Tenko, and George A. Marcoulides. Introduction to psychometric theory. Taylor & Francis, 2010.
[3] See chapter 6 in Raykov, Tenko, and George A. Marcoulides. Introduction to psychometric theory. Taylor & Francis, 2010.
[4] See chapter 7 in Raykov, Tenko, and George A. Marcoulides. Introduction to psychometric theory. Taylor & Francis, 2010.
[5] See Morgan, Stephen L., and Christopher Winship. Counterfactuals and causal inference: Methods and principles for social research. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
[6] See Pratt, John Winsor, Howard Raiffa, and Robert Schlaifer. Introduction to statistical decision theory. MIT press, 1995.
[7] See ch 7. in Fudenberg, Drew, and Jean Tirole. "Game theory, 1991." Cambridge, Massachusetts (1991).
[8] Schneier, Bruce. Liars and outliers: enabling the trust that society needs to thrive. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
New Discovery Tools for Digital Humanities and Spatial Data (Summary of the July, Brown Bag Talk by Lex Berman)
My colleague, (Merrick) Lex Berman, who is Web Service Manager & GIS Specialist, at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard presented this as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series. Lex is an expert in applications related to digital humanities, GIS, and Chinese history — and has developed many interesting tools in this area.
In his talk, Lex notes how the library catalog has evolved from the description of items in physical collections into a wide-reaching net of services and tools for managing both physical collections and networked resources: The line between descriptive metadata and actual content is becoming blurred. Librarians and catalogers are now in the position of being not only docents of collections, but innovators in digital research, and this opens up a number of opportunities for retooling library discovery tools. His presentation will presented survey of methods and projects that have extended traditional catalogs of libraries and museums into online collections of digital objects in the field of humanities — focusing on projects that use historical place names and geographic identifiers for linked open data will be discussed.
A number of themes ran through Lex's presentation: One theme is the unbinding of information — how collections are split into pieces that can be repurposed, but which also need to be linked to their context to remain understandable. Another theme is that knowledge is no longer bounded, footnotes and references are no longer stopping points, from the point of view of the user, all collections are unbounded, and the line between references to information and the information itself has become increasingly blurred. A third theme was the pervasiveness of information about place and space — all human activity takes place within a specific context of time and space, and implicit references to places exist in many places in the library catalog such as in the titles, and descriptions of works. A fourth them is that user expectations are changing – they expect instant, machine -readable information, geospatial information, mapping, and facetting as a matter of course.
Lex suggested a number of entry points for Libraries to investigate and pilot spatial discovery:
- Build connections to existing catalogs, which already have implicit reference to space and place
- Expose information through simple API's and formats, like GEORSS
- Use and contribute to open services like gazetteers


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Meeting Atlanta's AAPI CommunityPosted byon March 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM EST
Last Thursday, the Region IV Interagency Working Group hosted its first Community Roundtable for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders in Atlanta, Georgia. This meeting was co-hosted by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) and the Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS). Mayor Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council issued proclamations to CPACS for its collaborative effort in working with the AAPI community.
It was wonderful to see community members and leaders, community organizations, partners and federal agencies come together, to learn about and discuss strategies for addressing the needs of the AAPI community. Importantly, the Region IV IWG was committed to moving beyond words to action, and also hosted an AAPI Affordable Care Act Enrollment Summit immediately after the AAPI Community Roundtable.
During the AAPI Community Roundtable, the first presentation provided a brief history of the AAPI community in the South. I appreciated hearing from AAPI community leaders and members who shared their stories about their lives in Atlanta. This provided an important framework for the conversations that would follow.
Next, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) District Director Denise Frazier spoke about immigration and the AAPI community. She shared important information about programs available to assist AAPI immigrants and their families. Immigration plays such a large role in emerging AAPI communities, it was critical to have this conversation with the AAPI leaders in Atlanta.
After this plenary session, the attendees split into four issue-based discussions focused on: (1) Health and Human Services, (2) Housing and Education, (3) Employment and Small Business, and (4) Emergency Preparedness and Civic Engagement. The discussions were each led by a member of the Region IV IWG and facilitated by officials from nine federal agencies, including representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Education, Small Business Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, General Services Administration, Social Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Department of Justice.
These small groups provided an opportunity for community members and leaders to engage directly with federal officials, making these discussions much more meaningful and a great start to building working relationships between the federal government and the AAPI community in Atlanta.
Although it had already been a very productive day, the first AAPI Affordable Care Act Enrollment Summit at CPACS was held directly after the Region IV roundtable. The March 31 deadline to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is rapidly approaching, so CPACS made sure that more than 20 in-person assisters were available on-site to help community members learn about the Health Insurance Marketplace in over a dozen languages and receive assistance to enroll in health insurance.
This Summit was a much-needed effort for the AAPI community, and many individuals and families benefited from this event, including one mother who had been struggling to enroll in health insurance since January 2014. With the assistance provided by CPACS, she received in-person help to enroll in a health insurance plan. Over 50 families were able to enroll as a result of this event.
After a busy and informative day, I am grateful that stronger relationships are being built between Region IV's federal agencies and the AAPI community. There are many passionate and dedicated people working on issues that are vital to the AAPI community and, with more events like this, I am hopeful that this is just the beginning of a meaningful partnership. Together through solidarity and commitment, we can help serve the needs of all Americans and build a stronger nation.
Dr. Renard L. Murray is co-chair of the WHIAAPI Regional Interagency Working Group and the Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the Atlanta and Dallas Regional Offices.Learn more about
Helping Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders #GetCovered During AAPI Enrollment Week of ActionPosted byon March 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM EST
For the past eight years, Maly Xiong, a Hmong-American entrepreneur and single mom, was uninsured because she could not afford health insurance. Every night she prayed that her children wouldn't get sick because they did not have health insurance. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Maly was able to finally sign up for health insurance. Maly and her six children are now insured, healthy, and free from worry. "Getting covered has been a blessing," she said.
Stories such as Maly's make the March 31 Affordable Care Act open enrollment deadline even more critical for the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community to take action and get AAPIs enrolled in health coverage.
This is exactly what the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), the White House Office of Public Engagement, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with many passionate community leaders, did during the AAPI Enrollment Week of Action last week. Through collaboration between federal agencies and AAPI community leaders, the message was clear: #GetCovered.
Kicking off the week, HHS released a report that announced eight out of 10 uninsured Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders may be eligible for financial assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace. The White House also released a new infographic about AAPIs and the ACA:
During the week, I was honored to participate in a community conference call with Vice President Joe Biden to personally thank the many Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders leaders from national, state, and local community organizations who are working hard to educate the AAPI community about the importance of the ACA.
I was also excited to participate in a Google+ Hangout with actor Maulik Pancholy; Meena Seshamani, Deputy Director of the HHS Office of Health Reform; and Gautam Raghavan, Advisor for the White House Office on Public Engagement. We highlighted the important benefits of signing up for the Health Insurance Marketplace:
During AAPI Enrollment Week of Action, we re-released the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders' series of in-language Google+ Hangouts on the Affordable Care Act. This series included Google+ Hangouts in Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese (Mandarin).
And people across the country, including celebrities and community leaders, helped get the word out both on the ground and online.
#GetCovered before March 31st #AffordableCare Sign up now! @WhiteHouse @WhiteHouseAAPI 20 reasons to get covered! http://t.co/N3fHNzjMxo
— Michelle Kwan (@MichelleWKwan) March 20, 2014
Knock knock. Who's there? Obama. Obama who? Obama self! #GetCovered to Live Long and Prosper. Visit http://t.co/tx8jiZx2E5 by March 31.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 16, 2014
12 more days to sign up for health insurance thru the #AffordableCare act! #GetCovered #AAPI @WhiteHouseAAPI pic.twitter.com/GgQWLmqGCS
— Maulik Pancholy (@MaulikPancholy) March 19, 2014
Community organizations in Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York hosted enrollment events to walk individuals through the process of signing up for health coverage. For example, in Atlanta, Georgia, the Center for Pan Asian Community Services held an AAPI Enrollment Summit with over 40 assistors who spoke 16 languages available to provide in-person and in-language enrollment assistance for local community members.
I would like to thank every individual who has helped with outreach and enrollment efforts in your neighborhoods and communities. Our simple actions are part of a larger movement for the overall health and well-being of the AAPI community.
With only a few days left of open enrollment, please continue to direct members of the community to HealthCare.gov and to the 24/7 call center, available in over 150 languages, at 1-800-318-2596.
Dr. Howard K. Koh is Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Learn more about Health Care
March 26 Webinar on Hepatitis B Data Collection and ManagementPosted byon March 24, 2014 at 1:15 PM EST
Please join the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) and Hep B United on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. EST for a webinar on Hepatitis B Data Collection and Management featuring speakers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hep B United.
Hepatitis B affects up to two million Americans — yet the disease is often overlooked and largely underdiagnosed. Join us for this interactive session to learn more about hepatitis B surveillance in the United States and discuss tools and best practices toward reducing hepatitis B health disparities. Panelists will share innovative strategies in community-based screening settings, data collection and management.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
3:00-4:00 p.m. EST
Register at: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EA54DF88814B3E
A confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar will be sent to you after you register.
- Kate Moraras, Senior Program Director, Hepatitis B Foundation and Director, Hep B United
Alek Sripipatana, PhD, MPH, Chief, Data Branch, Office of Quality and Data, Bureau of Primary Health Care, HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
- Aurora Wong, Coordinator, Hep B Free Las Vegas, Hep B United Partner
Note: This webinar is off the record and not for press purposes.
Christine Soyong Harley is Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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Increasing Participation through Stronger PartnershipsPosted byon March 24, 2014 at 7:22 AM EST
Recently, we had the pleasure of organizing the first Regional Interagency Working Group roundtable with members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Boston. One of the RIWG's goals is to bring the Federal government to local communities. We had a constructive dialogue about how we could further develop partnerships with the AAPI community in order to tackle the challenges of accessing government services and programs. Speakers from the US Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Small Business Administration, and the Social Security Administration assembled to not only present their respective agency's work, but to also answer questions from attendees.
We are proud to report that the inaugural roundtable for Region 1 was a success. Staff from the Federal agencies responded directly to questions about issues surrounding workers' rights, economic development and assistance, and health and social services. The discussions included how limited English proficient individuals not only had difficulty accessing programs for small business and home loans, but also did not know how to access the technical assistance programs designed to assist applicants, due to the language barrier. Issues of language access arose again concerning access to worker protections laws and the importance of providing that information in culturally sensitive and linguistically relevant ways.
Roundtable attendees also requested there be more opportunities to engage with each individual agency to further strengthen and build new partnerships between their friends and neighbors and the Federal government. Given that Region 1 RIWG members possess decades of experience in the Federal government, we are well-positioned to help open the doors of the government to those who have been left out for too long. But most importantly, we also have the energy and the commitment to continue to confront these and many other issues with the AAPI community in the days and weeks ahead.
Roberto Medina is the Regional Public Affairs Officer for the Social Security Administration. Kenneth An is the Director of the Boston office for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Both are members of the White House Initiative on AAPIs' Regional Interagency Working Group, Region 1.
White House Engages Filipino American LeadersPosted byon March 21, 2014 at 7:40 AM EST
Last week, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) and the White House Office of Public Engagement brought together 175 Filipino American leaders at the White House to discuss key issues of importance to the community. Participants came from diverse sectors of society – non-profits, businesses, government, and philanthropy – and traveled from the far reaches of the country, including New York, California, and even Hawaii.
The briefing opened with remarks by the Honorable Lorna Schofield, the first Filipino-American Article III federal judge, who spoke about her journey to becoming a lifetime judge and how her mother encouraged her to reach for her dreams.
In the wake of the devastation brought on by Typhoon Haiyan, Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), discussed her November 2013 visit to Tacloban and her amazement at the resilience of the Filipino people who were impacted by the typhoon. To date, the United States has provided more than $87 million in humanitarian funding to the Philippines for Typhoon Haiyan relief. Gloria Steele, USAID Mission Director for the Philippines and the Pacific Islands, provided a video testimonial on how the most effective way that people can assist relief efforts is by making cash donations to reputable humanitarian organizations.
Kiran Ahuja, WHIAAPI Executive Director, engaged participants in an interactive dialogue about the Initiative's cross-cutting priorities and the reports by the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund Interagency Working Group. She also highlighted several efforts to better connect the AAPI community with the federal government, including WHIAAPI's call for ideas to expand opportunities for AAPIs and request for feedback on federal agency plans.
Representatives from the White House National Security Council and Domestic Policy Council, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Small Business Administration shared updates on the President's planned trip to the Philippines in April, commonsense immigration reform, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Affordable Care Act, and small business resources. In group breakouts, participants discussed how the Administration can continue to partner with Filipino American leaders and organizations to serve the community's needs. The briefing closed with remarks by Cris Comerford, the first Filipino American White House Executive Chef, who encouraged participants to continue persevering in their efforts to uplift the community.
As a proud second-generation Filipino American, I continue to be inspired by community leaders throughout the country who have worked collaboratively to help our kababayan, or fellow countrymen – whether it's providing humanitarian assistance in the Philippines or spreading awareness about key federal resources throughout the United States. I look forward to continued collaboration, advocacy, and engagement between the Filipino American community and the federal government in the months and years ahead.
Jason Tengco is a Senior Advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Watch Our In-Language Google+ Hangouts on the Affordable Care ActPosted byon March 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM EST
As a community with some of the highest uninsured rates, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country will benefit from the Affordable Care Act.
Nearly one in five AAPIs was uninsured prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act. And some of the largest AAPI ethnic communities have uninsured rates higher than the national average, including Korean (one in three), Vietnamese (one in five), and Chinese (one in seven) communities. These communities are also more likely to be limited English proficiency (or LEP), making it especially important to have access to in-language materials to learn about and enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Two million AAPIs are projected to become insured thanks to the Affordable Care Act. For AAPIs, the law's benefits will help reduce disparities in both health care and health outcomes through expanded insurance coverage and better access to high-quality health care services. This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that eight out of 10 uninsured Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders may be eligible for financial assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
The importance of educating our communities on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, the importance of health insurance, and how to enroll through the Health Insurance Marketplaces is invaluable to our communities. That's why the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders hosted a series of in-language Google+ Hangouts on the Affordable Care Act. This series included Google+ Hangouts in Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese (Mandarin).
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With HealthCare.gov working smoothly, more than 5 million Americans have already signed up for health insurance.
If you or someone you care about is uninsured, it's not too late to sign up for quality, affordable coverage – but you'll want to act today and before March 31. If you don't enroll by March 31, you can't enroll again until November 2014. Visit HealthCare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596 today to learn more.
Kiran Ahuja is Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
저렴한 케어법(Affordable Care Act)에 대한 자국어 구글 행아웃을 시청하세요
저자: Kiran Ahuja
저렴한 케어 법안의 혜택에 관해 커뮤니티 그룹에 교육을 제공하는 중요성, 건강 보험의 중요성 및 건강 보험 시장(Health Insurance Marketplaces)을 통한 등록 방법은 우리 커뮤니티에 아주 소중합니다. 이런 이유로 아시아계 미국인 및 태평양 제도민(AAPI)에 대한 백악관 이니셔티브가 저렴한 케어 법안에 대한 자국어로 진행되는 구글 행아웃 시리즈를 주최하였습니다. 이 구글 행아웃 시리즈는 한국어, 베트남어 및 중국어로 제공됩니다.
HealthCare.gov가 순조롭게 협력함으로써, 5백만명 이상의 미국인들이 이미 건강 보험에 등록했습니다.
귀하나 귀하가 아끼는 누군가가 아직 보험에 들지 않았다면, 고품질의 저렴한 보험에 등록하는 것이 아직 늦지 않았습니다. 하지만 지금 당장 아니면 3월 31일 전까지는 행동을 취해야 합니다. 그렇지 않으면, 2014년 11월까지 다시 기다려야 합니다. 더 자세히 배우려면 HealthCare.gov또는 1-800-318-2596에 전화 를 오늘 방문해 주십시오.
Kiran Ahuja는 아시아계 미국인과 태평양 제도에백악관 이니셔티브의 행정 담당관 입니다."
Hãy xem các buổi trình phát về Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp bằng Ngôn ngữ Bản xứ qua Google Hangout
Do Kiran Ahuja trình bày
Là một cộng đồng với tỷ lệ người không có bảo hiểm cao nhất, người Mỹ gốc Á và Đảo Thái Bình Dương (AAPI) trong toàn quốc sẽ có lợi từ Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp.
Hầu như một trong năm người AAPI đã không có bảo hiểm trước khi Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp được thông qua thành luật. Một vài cộng đồng thuộc sắc dân AAPI có số dân không có bảo hiểm cao hơn mức trung bình toàn quốc, bao gồm các cộng đồng Hàn Quốc (một trong ba), Việt Nam (một trong năm), và Trung Quốc (một trong bảy). Các cộng đồng này có lẽ cũng có trình độ Tiếng Anh giới hạn (hoặc là LEP), cho nên việc cung cấp được tài liệu bằng ngôn ngữ bản xứ rất quan trọng để tìm hiểu và ghi danh với Thị Trường Bảo Hiểm Sức Khỏe.
Dự tính là hai triệu người thuộc sắc dân AAPI sẽ có bảo hiểm nhờ Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp. Đối với nhóm người AAPI, đạo luật sẽ có hữu ích để giảm thiểu sự chênh lệch về cả hai lĩnh vực chăm sóc sức khỏe và kết quả sức khỏe do việc nới rộng chương trình bảo hiểm và mức tiếp cận các dịch vụ sức khỏe phẩm chất tốt hơn. Tuần này Bộ Y tế và Dịch vụ Nhân sinh Hoa Kỳ thông báo rằng 8 trong số 10 người Mỹ không có bảo hiểm gốc châu Á, Hawaii bản địa, và đảo Thái Bình Dương có thể hội đủ điều kiện để được hỗ trợ tài chính trong thị trường bảo hiểm y tế.
Sự quan trọng trong việc giáo dục các cộng đồng của chúng ta về các lợi ích của Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp, cùng với tầm quan trọng của bảo hiểm sức khỏe, và cách thức ghi danh qua Thị Trường Bảo Hiểm Sức Khỏe, là vô giá đối với các cộng đồng này. Đó là lý do tại sao Cơ Quan cố vấn của Tòa Bạch Ốc về Người Á Châu và Đảo Thái Bình Dương đã tổ chức các đợt Google Hangout về Đạo Luật Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe với Bảo Phí Phù Hợp bằng những ngôn ngữ bản xứ. Đợt này gồm có các buổi Google Hangout bằng tiếng Đại Hàn, Việt Nam, và Trung Hoa. Hãy nhấn vào link Tiếng Việt để biết thêm chi tiết.
Hiện nay trang mạng HealthCare.gov làm việc suông sẽ, và hơn 5 triệu người Mỹ đã ghi danh mua bảo hiểm.
Nếu quý vị hoặc người thân chưa có bảo hiểm y tế, vẫn không quá muộn để ghi danh mua bảo hiểm phẩm chất với bảo phí phù hợp – tuy nhiên quý vị nên làm ngay trong hôm nay và trước ngày 31 Tháng 3. Nếu đến ngày 31 Tháng 3, mà không ghi danh, thì quý vị không thể ghi danh cho đến Tháng 11, 2014. Hãy vào trang mạng HealthCare.gov hoặc gọi 1-800-318-2596 hôm nay để biết thêm chi tiết.
Kiran Ahuja là Giám đốc điều hành của Ban Cố Vấn của Nhà Trắng về người Mỹ gốc Á và Đảo Thái Bình Dương.
撰文:奇兰。阿胡亚(Kiran Ahuja)
在"平价医疗法案"成为法律之前,亚太裔美国人中有将近五分之一的人口没有医疗保险。而某些最大的亚太裔社区的未投保比例超出了全美的平均水平,其中包括韩国裔(三分之一未投保)、越南裔(五分之一未投保)、以及华裔(七分之一未投保)社区。这些社区也更可能是英语能力有限(LEP)的社区,因而尤其重要的是,他们有机会以母语获得相关资料来了解和参加健康保险市场(Health Insurance Marketplace)。
如果您或您关心的人士尚未参保,那么现在报名参加高品质的、实惠的保险计划还不会太晚 - 但您今天就需要行动,而不要晚于3月31日。如果您未于3月31日之前参保,则下次要等到2014年11月才能参保。请立即访问HealthCare.gov网站,或拨打:1-800-318-2596了解更多信息。
奇兰。阿胡亚(Kiran Ahuja)现任白宫亚太裔事务处行政主任。
撰文: Kiran Ahuja奇蘭。阿胡亞(Kiran Ahuja)
在"平價醫療法案"成為法律之前,亞太裔美國人中有將近五分之一的人口沒有醫療保險。而某些最大的亞太裔社區的未投保比例超出了全美的平均水平,其中包括韓國裔(三分之一未投保)、越南裔(五分之一未投保)、以及華裔(七分之一未投保)等社區。這些社區也更可能是英語能力有限(LEP)的社區,因而尤其重要的是,他們有機會以其母語獲得相關資料來了解和參加健康保險市場(Health Insurance Marketplace)。
如果您或您關心的人士尚未參保,那麼現在報名參加高品質的、實惠的保險計劃還不會太晚- 但您今天就需要行動,而不要晚於3月31日。如果您未於3月31日之前參保,則下次要等到2014年11月才能參保。請立即訪問HealthCare.gov網站或撥打:1-800-318-2596了解更多信息。
奇蘭。阿胡亞(Kiran Ahuja) 現任白宮亞太裔事務處行政主任。
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Southdale's mess needs NDP help
The next time a Manitoba government of any political stripe wants to help the city's community centres, it should hand the money over to the city, which has an orderly, if underfunded, process for doling out the cash on a fair and reasonable basis.
The problem with global funding, however, is that it's not as good a political strategy as targeting specific ridings, which is why the NDP promised during the 2007 election to help pay for the expansion of a community centre in Southdale, a tactic that paid off when the party took the seat from the Tories.
Southdale then moved to the front of the line and ahead of other more-deserving community centres that were waiting for funds. The people got what they wanted and so did the NDP, so now they will both have to live with the serious deficit that has emerged and is forcing parents to cough up more cash in facility fees.
The Progressive Conservatives tried the same tactic to win back the seat last year. They promised to spend $8 million on new facilities in Southdale, but the bribe didn't work and the NDP held the seat.
The General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres (GCWCC) developed a plan seven years ago for the funding and future development of recreational facilities. One of the goals of the plan, which was approved by city council, was to eliminate political meddling.
Operating grants are awarded on the basis of square footage and population, but there is no formula for major renovations, expansions and new construction. Those decisions are based on available funding and need, as determined by the GCWCC.
The city contributed only a small portion of the Southdale expansion, but that's because most of its capital funds went to support projects already approved by the GCWCC.
Some community centres have eased their financial struggles by merging, but that option isn't available or feasible in every case.
The GCWCC had recommended that community centres leverage funds through new partnerships with seniors groups, the disabled, immigrants and aboriginals, but very few clubs have pursued such an approach, which could involve new sports programs and other activities not traditionally offered.
The city could also do more to encourage or demand better business models from community centres, but it is not responsible for the Southdale boondoggle, which the NDP should be only too happy to accept.
Editorials are the consensus view of the Winnipeg Free Press' editorial board, comprising Catherine Mitchell, David O'Brien, Shannon Sampert, and Paul Samyn.
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"Few Americans are at low risk for heart disease
Just 10 percent of U.S. adults had low risk scores, new study finds
updated 4:13 p.m. PT, Mon., Sept . 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - Ninety percent of American adults have at least one risk factor for heart disease, researchers reported on Monday.
Virtually all Americans either have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, are overweight, smoke or exercise too little, the team led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"Unfortunately, the limited strides that were made toward this goal during the 1970s and 1980s were eroded by the increases in excess weight, diabetes and hypertension during more recent decades," the CDC's Dr. Earl Ford, who led the study, said in a statement.
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Today's pedestrian safety emphasis in the WSU Spokane Campus area yielded 34 citations in about two and a half hours. Nine motor officers, along with Neighborhood Resource Officers Shaney Redmon and Wayne Downing participated in the sting that went from 7:30am until about 10:00am. Ofc.'s Redmon and Downing were in plain clothes attempting to cross Spokane Falls Blvd. to and from the campus, in one of the major marked crosswalks used by WSU pedestrian traffic near Riverpoint Blvd. Staff and students in the area expressed concern that they could not safely cross Spokane Falls and asked for increased patrols.
Twenty-seven of those citations were for Fail to Yield Right of Way to a Pedestrian. Other citations included no insurance, speeding, using a cell phone while driving, and no valid operator's license. With all the schools now in session in our area, the Spokane Police Traffic Unit would like to remind drivers to be cognizant of the increased pedestrian traffic in all areas of the city.
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Back row forwards Johnathan Edwards and Kieran Murphy to leave Scarlets
Tuesday 7th May 11:15
The Scarlets have confirmed that back row forwards Johnathan Edwards and Kieran Murphy will leave the club at the end of the season.
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