Category «E-Government»

BEA’s API Expands Access to International Services Trade Data

BEA Blog: “The most detailed data on U.S. international trade in services published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis are now accessible through our application programming interface, or API. This includes detailed annual statistics on U.S. trade in services by type of service for 90 countries and areas, including new estimates of trade related to …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

MA Office of Consumer Affairs Business Reg Introduces Web-Based Data Breach Notification Archive

Mass.gov: “The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation today announced the online public availability of its Data Breach Notification Archive.  The Massachusetts Data Security Law (M.G.L. c.93H) requires any entity that keeps a Massachusetts resident’s personal information to notify affected residents, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and the Attorney General’s Office …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Obama releases redacted report on Russian hacking and US elections

Follow up to previous posting, WaPo reports US intel documents Russian geopol jubilation at Trump win, which included a wide ranging resources on this issue – see today Via Politico: “The Obama administration on Friday officially blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for directing a massive cyber assault against the U.S. election in an attempt to …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

White House – New Lenses on the First Social Media Presidency

Joshua Miller via White House – “At the end of October, we shared our plans for preserving and passing on the digital history of the Obama administration, and invited the American people to “come up with creative ways to archive this content and make it both useful and available for years to come.” From the …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Social Media

WaPo reports US intel documents Russian geopol jubilation at Trump win

Follow up to previous posting today – President-elect plans to restructure US intelligence agencies – via Washington Post – U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win – “Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

FCW – 3 in 10 agency websites miss OMB deadline to migrate to HTTPS

Federal Computer Week, Chase Gunter: “…While many agencies have indeed moved to HTTPS, 31 percent of the approximately 1,200 .gov domains monitored by the Pulse dashboard have not completed these conversions…To help transitioning agencies, GSA also launched a help site that provides technical advice and assistance, and “works directly with federal staff who are working …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

DHS/FBI issue joint report on Russian hacking of US election and subsequent govt sanctions

ABC News – Obama Issues Sanctions for Alleged Russian Hacking – “President Obama has expelled 35 Russian nationals and sanctioned five Russian entities and four individuals for an alleged cyber assault on Democratic political organizations during the 2016 presidential campaign, the White House announced today. “I have ordered a number of actions in response to …

Subjects: Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

WSJ – How to Tweet if You’re in Government and Not Donald Trump

How to Tweet if You’re in Government and Not Donald Trump: Write, Review, Edit, Seek Approval, Wait, Edit, (Maybe) Send (sub. re’d) – by Aruna Viswanatha and Natalie Andrews: “In 2010, a top Justice Department official told the agency’s divisions they could set up Twitter accounts and he convened a ‘working group’ to provide guidance …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

‘We the People’: Five Years of Online Petitions

Pew: “During President Obama’s first full day in office on Jan. 21, 2009, he issued a statement committing his administration to pursue “an unprecedented level of openness in Government.” His goal was to make the federal government more transparent, participatory and collaborative through the use of new technologies. The broader effort was called the Open …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Social Security Bulletin Archives

The Social Security Bulletin (ISSN 1937-4666) is published quarterly by the Social Security Administration, Washington, DC. The Bulletin is prepared in the Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, and digital copies are available from 1938 to present. Older issues are in PDF and more recent issues are in HTML. …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Poverty

LC Guide to Law Online

“The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information. Select a Link: International and Multinational Nations of the World U.S. Federal – includes …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries