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The GPO announced that its plan, the Future Digital System (FDsys), to digitize most government documents beginning with the Federal Papers, should be completed by summer 2007. See also the December 1, 2004 GPO report, A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century (23 pages, PDF)
French open terror database “La Base de Données sur les actes terroristes (BDT) a été ouverte au public le 22 septembre 2005 avec, au départ, un accès via les sites Internet du Ministère de l’Intérieur et de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.” [Link]
“President Bush Broadens PCAST’s Duties: Executive Order elevates role of external information technology advice in the White House; PCAST to serve as President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (September 2005),” Press release. Related links: President’s IT Cmte. Reports on Critical Role of Computational Science for American Competitiveness President’s IT Advisory Committee Issues Recommendations on Cyber Security
From Tim Stanley and his terrific team at Justia.com, this news: “we just put up a new free U.S. Supreme Court site and full decisions database (Volumes 1 – 545+) with oyez.org and uscourtforms.com. The url for the initial beta version is http://www.justia.us…we have links to real audio and canned searches into google, msn and …
Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Draft Framework for Privacy Analysis of Programs, Technologies, and Applications, (draft, 9/2/05)
From the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “Two new web sites and relief funds have been created to help raise donations for the recovery effort in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area: “New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has established the “The Bring New Orleans Back Fund” which “is the only non-profit fund exclusively dedicated to …
Press release: “EarthLink…today announced that it has been selected by Wireless Philadelphia to develop and implement the nation’s largest municipal Wi-Fi broadband network. Wireless Philadelphia expands the City of Philadelphia’s leadership position of using wireless technology to meet the needs of its residents and also enhance the City’s progressive visitor, tourism and business environment.” See …
Google press release: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions …
Press release, August 16, 2006: “San Francisco, CA Following through on a pledge made in last year’s State of the City address, Mayor Gavin Newsom today launched a new initiative to provide universal, affordable wireless broadband access to all San Franciscans at no cost or minimal cost to the City and residents.” Google submitted …
Wall Street Journal free feature today, Misinformation Slowed Federal Response to Katrina
Following up on his 2002 call for the formation of a National Emergency Technology Guard (NET Guard), on September 29, 2005 Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), together with Sen. George Allen (R-VA) sent this letter to DHS Secretary Chertoff urging his department to “fully implement NET Guard as soon as possible.” Related resources: Homeland Security Act …
CRS Report, NEPA and Hurricane Response, Recovery, and Rebuilding Efforts, September 28, 2005 (12 pages, PDF)
