Suchergebnisse

El concepto de legitimidad democrática, tal como se aplica a los servicios de inteligencia de un país, aún no se ha definido ni sus factores contribuyentes están sistemáticamente aislados y operacionalizados. Los acontecimientos recientes en Colombia son la oportunidad para intentar hacer esas dos cosas. Los servicios de inteligencia legítimamente democráticos satisfacen la necesidad de información y análisis de un país, de acuerdo con la aplicación de principios internacionales de derechos humanos, para preservar y proteger un sistema de gobierno de soporte constitucional. El concepto de legitimidad combina el respeto mutuo y la rendición de cuentas de legalidad existente entre la administración política de un país y sus ciudadanos, y las acciones y reputación a largo plazo de sus servicios de inteligencia. Tres elementos contribuyen a la evaluación de la legitimidad de la inteligencia colombiana: primero, a medida que los profesionales reflexionan sobre su entorno laboral, las memorias publicadas ilustran los aspectos sociales y culturales de la vida en los servicios de inteligencia. Segundo, el marco legal legitimante –la Ley de Inteligencia de Colombia 1621 del 2013 y las medidas del país para llevar a cabo y monitorear las actividades de inteligencia– indican un nivel de buena disposición institucional. Tercero, los artículos en línea de tres años antes y después de la promulgación de la ley de 2013, publicados por tres importantes medios de comunicación impresa, proporcionan datos empíricos. La legitimidad de los servicios de inteligencia colombianos ha aumentado desde la promulgación de la ley de inteligencia. El logro de una mayor libertad de expresión entre periodistas ha conducido a un aumento convincente en la cobertura de asuntos de inteligencia en Colombia.

AbstractMaintaining a discovery capacity in evaluation promotes better fit between the evaluation and the dynamic, complex contexts of community‐based programs. A continuing discovery capacity also fits well with the long‐term, systemic changes to which these programs aspire.

This paper examines the regulatory context of crime arising from the connectivity of computing and communications. Nine varieties of telecommunications‐related crime are considered: theft of services, communications in furtherance of criminal conspiracies, telecommunications piracy, the dissemination of offensive materials, electronic money laundering, electronic vandalism, telemarketing fraud, illegal interception, and electronic funds transfer fraud. The paper concludes that the most appropriate configuration of regulatory strategies for the control of telecommunications‐related crime entails a mixture of law enforcement, and technological and market‐based solutions. The pursuit of a strict regulatory agenda is, in most cases, not feasible because of the limited capacity of the state. Over‐regulation, moreover, may stifle commercial and technological development. It is argued that the marketplace may be able to provide more efficient solutions to the problems of telecommunications crime than state interventions.

In this article, the authors present a mechanism for client tracking linked to a management information system (MIS). The MIS can serve several evaluation functions: assistance to program management in enhancing services, evaluation of the dynamics of client flow through the system, and measurement of interagency coordination for the service population. The authors' aim is to demonstrate the role that such an MIS can play whenever clients must be tracked over time in open systems that depend on coordination of services. Features of the MIS are illustrated by its use in a project for pregnant and postpartum chemically dependent women.

Outreach is a term frequently used to describe active recruitment of program participants and is a common element of many social service and disease prevention programs. Outreach as a project element has received renewed attention with the advent of new federal demonstration projects to serve groups that are difficult to locate, difficult to recruit into services, or difficult to retain within a system of services. The goals of this article are to (a) define outreach, (b) describe the history of outreach as a project element within federal social programs, (c) outline what we perceive as central sources of variation in this element, (d) describe measures of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and (e) prepare the evaluator for some recurring implemen tation issues.