Department of Energy Press Release:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, today [June 22, 2007] opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The gateway, WorldWideScience.org, gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2007
Global Science Gateway Now Open
The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0
The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0
David C. Wyld, Associate Professor Southeastern Louisiana University
(99 pages, PDF)
Dr. Wyld examines the phenomenon of blogging in the context of the larger revolutionary forces at play in the development of the second-generation Internet, where interactivity among users is key. This is also referred to as “Web [...]
Panelist notes politics of putting agency information online
From Government Executive:
Patrice McDermott, executive director of OpenTheGovernment.org, chose to participate in a Tuesday workshop sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Science Research Initiative because she wants to convince techies that the government’s underutilization of the Internet has a lot to do with politics.
The workshop, held this week at the National [...]
FEC Helps Bloggers Track Campaign Cash
From Townhall.com:
The Federal Election Commission introduced a new feature Tuesday on its website to track presidential campaign donations as a part of a larger effort to make campaign finance data more accessible.
The FEC now has an online map that graphically displays individual contributions to 2008 Presidential candidates, organized by zip code. Users may also look [...]
Congressional Panel Favors Access to Publicly Funded Research
Alliance for Taxpayer Access Press Release:
Public access to NIH-funded research took a major step forward this week with Senate Appropriations Committee agreement to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require that its funded research be made publicly available on the Internet.
German government agency to fund accurate Wikipedia articles
From Ars Technica:
The German government—one small part of it, at least—now recognizes Wikipedia as an important distribution channel for public information, and it’s setting aside funds to create more accurate articles.
The Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe (FNR), Germany’s Agency of Renewable Resources, is one small part of the much larger Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer [...]
Google seeks U.S. government support in fighting Internet censorship abroad
From the Mercury News:
Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S. trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global [...]
Google to close German email service if country approves internet traffic law
From Forbes.com:
Google has threatened to close its German online services Google Mail if the German government does not scrap its controversial draft law that would monitor telecommunications and internet traffic, Peter Fleischer, the company’s global privacy counsel, said in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche magazine.
Fleischer said the German Justice Ministry wants to make it an obligation [...]
CIA Releases Two Significant Collections of Historical Documents
From the CIA FOIA Reading Room:
Two significant collections of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
The first collection, widely known as the “Family Jewels,” consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to [...]
EU: eGovernment in the European countries
From ePractice.eu:
As part of its mission to inform the European eGovernment community about key issues of common interest, the eGovernment Observatory maintains a series of Factsheets presenting the situation and progress of eGovernment in 32 European countries: EU-27, Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, providing for each one of them a wide and consistent range [...]