E-Voting Flaws Increasingly Subject of State Consideration
Doubts about e-voting drive bilateral push for paper backups. Related postings on e-voting security issues.
Category «E-Government»
Treasury Website Posts Campaign-Related Press Release
The WSJ reported that the Bush Administration used Treasury Dept. civil servants to compile and publish an analysis, via the agency’s webite, labeled as a press release, that actually constituted a campaign related document critical of Senator John Kerry’s proposed tax plan. According to Kerry’s campaign, this action is a violation of the Hatch Act, …
EU Continues to Contest Transfer of Passenger Data
From Statewatch, April 1: “The European Parliament has passed a Resolution rejecting the draft Directive on “the obligation of carriers to communicate passenger data” and calling for it to be withdrawn. The Directive was put forward by the Spanish government last year and was radically altered by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 30 …
Web Institute on Using Canadian Gov’t Publications
Choosing and Using Canadian Government Documents and Government Information on the Web – Instructor: Jeff Moon, Head, Documents Unit, Queen’s University Library. (six weeks, begins April 5, $). [thanks to Rita Vine]
Report on Facilitating Electronic Access to Government Documents
As posted on law-lib by GPO’s Judith C. Russell: From the Working Group on the Categorization of Government Information (CGI), which is part of the Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI), the first draft of a paper, Defining What Government Information Is to Be Categorized (as required by the E-Government Act of 2002, specifically Sec. …
GAO Provides Uneven Scorecard on E-Gov Initiatives
Electronic Government: Initiatives Sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget Have Made Mixed Progress, by Linda D. Koontz, director, information technology, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-04-561T, March 24. Highlights. Of OMB’s 25 e-government initiatives, kudos go to Grants.gov, “This site allows …
Commentary on the Growing Concern With E-Voting Technology
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy: Activitist Bev Harris has put e-voting security issues high on the agenda of states and localities throughout the country.
GPO to Adopt Document Encrytion Technology
GPO signs on to using PKI: “The Government Printing Office by mid-summer will authenticate government documents using a public-key infrastructure and digital signatures. Judy Russell, the GPOs superintendent of documents and managing director of information dissemination, yesterday said the office will apply the technology to all documents agencies submit to www.gpoaccess.gov.”
Library of Congress to Undertake Major Update of Global Legal Information Network
From the AALL press release: “The Law Library of Congress has awarded a five-year contract to develop and implement major enhancements to the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). The improvements are necessary to respond to the challenges of globalization and an increasing demand for online legal research resources. Initial designs for the upgraded GLIN system …
Guide to Finding Federal Gov’t Info on the Web
How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the World Wide Web. Authors: Sherry DeDecker and Patricia Cruse, University of California. Updated: January 6, 2004.
E-Gov Sites Effectively Compete With Private Counterparts
The current American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Government Report is available in two parts, one presenting Fourth Quarter Scores (Last Update: February 18, 2004) Retail, Finance/Insurance, E-Commerce, and one presenting Recent E-Government Scores for Q1 2004. The studies indicate that some e-gov sites register user satisfaction that meets that of widely known e-commerce sites such …
FDA Consumer Magazine
The new issue of FDA Consumer Magazine is now available, Volume 38, Number 2, March-April 2004. Includes a link to current updates from fda.gov – “Places of interest on FDA’s Website and other government and health-related sites.”
