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The Center for Digital Government announced the Top Five State Government Web Sites for 2004. Factors that comprise the evaluation process include the scope and value of online services offered to the community, and the functionality and flexibility of the respective portal features. The top five lists comprises sites from Maine, Indiana, Virginia, Delaware, and …
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce a new browse feature on the GPO Access Congressional Documents Web pages. In our continuing effort to increase the accessibility of the resources available on GPO Access, users can now browse the catalog of House, Senate and Treaty documents, by Congress, beginning with the 104th …
Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information, September 3, 2004: “This notice is to announce and to seek public comments regarding NIH’s plans to facilitate enhanced public access to NIH health related research information. NIH intends to request that its grantees and supported Principal Investigators provide the NIH with electronic copies of all final …
From the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., “the following chart provides information on the number and type of Open Source (OS) software policies and legislation considered by national, regional or local governments around the world. It looks at whether the policy or legislation mandated the use of OS, expressed a …
According to Federal Computer Week, a PR firm has received a contract to revamp 10 e-gov websites, beginning with the underutilized sites Recreation One-Stop, e-Authentication and International Trade Process Streamlining. Related references as follows: The Official Web Site of the President’s E-Government Initiatives GAO Report: Electronic Government: Planned e-Authentication Gateway Faces Formidable Development Challenges New …
“September is National Preparedness Month. Throughout the month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, American Red Cross, the America Prepared Campaign, the National Association of Broadcasters, the U.S. Department of Education and other partners, will host a series of events to highlight the importance of citizen emergency preparedness.” [Link]
Joseph P. Manck, County Administrative Judge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, ruled on September 1 that the state may use e-voting machines from Diebold in the upcoming election, despite security issues documented by the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland. See this Washington Post (reg. re’d) article for more details, and related beSpacific postings here.
From the Chief Information Officers Council’s Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI): this document that “seeks to improve the methods by which Government information, including information on the Internet, is organized, preserved, and made accessible to the public, as required under the E-Government Act of 2002, Section 207, Accessibility, Usability, and Preservation of Government Information,” …
U.S. Dept. of State, United States Elections 2004 (note: references a terrific column by Kathy Biehl, from LLRX.com, on Federal & State Election Resources) Aggregated blog feeds on convention news: Politics.Feedster.com, Technorati Election Watch 2004 and links to individuals who are blogging the convention. Yahoo! News – Presidential Elections – Blogs
A DoD video produced as a teaching tool for citizens to learn about access to government documents was edited due to concerns that footage included was subject to copyright restrictions. This report from AP also states that a FOIA request to obtain a copy of the video (clips of which are available at this url: …
“Officials at the Commerce Department’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently began publishing patent examiners’ decisions on the Web for all prospective inventors to see, as part of a new system called Public Patent Application Information Retrieval, or PAIR.” [Link] See my related posting from August 2 here.
Scientists want research papers freely available The PDF text of the Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by by 25 Nobel Prize Winners
