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The FirstGov.gov Reference Center Libraries. An alphabetical list of links to resources including: national, federal and local libraries, online library databases, email listservs, Government RSS Library, and lots more. Worth a look.
Press release, May 12, 2005: Rep. Waxman Introduces Legislation to Restore Transparency and Open Government Laws: “Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman introduced legislation to reverse the Bush Administrations assault on open government by restoring laws promoting transparency. The Restore Open Government Act of 2005 (H.R. 2331) requires public disclosure of government information and presidential documents, …
From FirstGov.gov, this U.S. Government RSS Library webpage aggregates links to a wide range of resources, including news releases, press briefings, transcripts, reports, advisories, statistics and technical documents, in one easy to use location, providing content on the following topical areas: Agriculture RSS Feeds Consumer RSS Feeds Cyber Security RSS Feeds Data and Statistics RSS …
From the UK Guardian Unlimited: “Some of Britain’s leading medical research funders have banded together to finance the country’s most comprehensive online repository of medical knowledge. The multimillion-pound UK PubMed Central project is a big boost to proponents of open access to scientific research. It will enable academic researchers to post papers published either online …
The Terror Watch List, under development for several years, has been plagued by set-backs; administrative, technical and political in nature. This BusinessWeek.com article reviews the origins of the system, the technology hurdles encountered during the course of its development, and the plans for its completion. See also Airline screening program panned by House appropriators
House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on Rep. Dreier’s Legislation Establishing a Tamper-Proof Social Security Card: Legislative Hearing on H.R. 98, the “Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2005” News Advisory 5-11-05 Testimony of EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
From the May 3, 2005 Federal Register: Presidential records; management and custody: Clinton Administration electronic backup tapes; proposed disposal: “NARA proposes the disposition of 9,193 backup tapes created during the Clinton Administration by White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff because NARA has determined that they lack continuing administrative, historical, informational or evidentiary value. The tapes …
REAL ID: “The United States is getting a national ID card. The REAL ID Act (text of the bill and the Congressional Research Services analysis of the bill) establishes uniform standards for state driver’s licenses, effectively creating a national ID card. It’s a bad idea, and is going to make us all less safe. It’s …
From Federal Computer Week, this article reviews the challenges of digital preservation programs initiated by LC and GPO. The agencies are seeking technology solutions that harvest data on government documents to fulfill directives to digitize collections, archives and websites. Challenges to these initiatives include copyright issues, vast deep web document repositories, and the tremendous scope …
From Wired, this article Your Identity, Open to All clearly elucidates the privacy issues associated with signficantly increased accessibility to personal data on the web that is aggregated from public domain sources. Questions about the accuracy of this data, its timeliness, the reliability of the sources from which it is extrapolated, and the reasons for …
USA Today reported that beginning this summer, travelers will be required to provide full name and birth date to complete the process of booking domestic travel. This is part of the TSA’s Secure Flight program.
Press release: OMB Releases Updated President’s Management Agenda Scorecard How Does the Scoring Work? Executive Branch Management Score Card, March 31, 2005
