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Via Stephane Cottin, Membre du conseil d’administration at ADIJ Association pour le developpement de l’informatique juridique – France – news on the availability of new databases that provide multiple language access to the French official legal portal Legifrance.gouv.fr – Translations of French legal texts Italian Arabic German Spanish Chinese A list of French legal texts …
News release: “A new suite of online portal and smartphone apps is providing information on tsunami zones in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Tsunami Evacuation Zones online portal and free apps provide an at-a-glance view of tsunami hazard zones along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing …
“Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Kids In Danger (KID) and Consumers Union (CU) mark the one year anniversary of the posting of consumer reports on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissions (CPSC) consumer database, SaferProducts.gov, that allows people to share and access safety information about the products they own and consider buying. To mark the …
“Different people need different resources as they try to quit. The information and professional assistance available on this Web site can help to support both your immediate and long-term needs as you become, and remain, a nonsmoker. Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in …
Revolution @State: The Spread of Ediplomacy, Fergus Hanson, March 2012 “The US State Department has become the worlds leading user of ediplomacy. Ediplomacy now employs over 150 full-time personnel working in 25 different ediplomacy nodes at Headquarters. More than 900 people use it at US missions abroad. Ediplomacy is now used across eight different program …
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies – Implementing PortfolioStat, March 30, 2012 – Steven VanRoekel, Federal Chief Information Officer “PortfolioStat will be a new tool that agencies use to assess the current maturity of their IT portfolio management process, make decisions on eliminating duplication, augment current CIOled capital planning and investment control …
“An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds usenergy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US right now. Read more about wind and about wind power.”
“We [Steve Beleu and Melissa Askew, Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries] have now revised our Federal Websites – Native Americans website which links to federal agency websites by topic that are either for or about Native Americans. The main purpose of the revision was to list the websites within each topic by the name of their …
“As of today, March 16, 2012, the transition from GPO Access to GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) is complete. FDsys now is GPO’s only Web site for online official and authentic Government information from all three branches of the Federal Government. After ushering GPO into the online world 16 years ago, GPO Access has been …
“In Following the Money 2012: How the States Rank on Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data, researchers at the United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) graded all 50 states on how well they provide online access to information about government spending. States were given A to F grades based on the characteristics …
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“Ethics.Data.gov brings together datasets from across the government to help citizens easily access this information, empowering Americans to hold government accountable. Enter a name and see every record of that person across the entire collection of ethics data – including campaign finance, lobbying, and White House visitor records. Ethics.Data.gov brings together datasets from across the …
