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In an October 14 posting on the Best City, County and State Websites as determined by the Center for Digital Government, I should have noted the addition of a new category for best state judiciary website, which was awarded to the North Carolina Court System. Information is arranged by three main categories: Citizens (available in …
From the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (NEC3), “an alliance of state and local associations dedicated to the advancement of electronic commerce within governments,” a new white paper, Maximizing Revenues and Saving Costs Through E-Government: Success Stories in the Public Sector (pdf, 61 pages). The 23 projects highlighted by this report showed a ROI of …
“To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov — a “one stop shop” for U.S. Government recalls.” The participating agencies are the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), …
From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. “Web version based on Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1964. 1 volume, 888 pages. The formatting of this Web version may …
The American Records Management Association Education Foundation sponsored a research project by John C. Montaña, J.D., titled Legal Obstacles to E-Mail Message Destruction (42 pages, pdf), published October 19, 2003. The report addresses risk management associated with e-mail retention, the definition and legal status of e-mail, state, federal and foreign government laws associated with the …
An EFF advisory addresses a legal challenge (initiated by two Swarthmore students, an ISP and a privacy group) in response to cease and desist orders issued by an electronic voting machine manufacturer. These orders were in response to the publication on the web of some 13,000 pages of internal corporate documents which included extensive discussion …
From FCW.com: The Labor Department today launched a new version of GovBenefits.gov that includes information on benefits programs in 20 states, taking another step toward making the Web portal a truly governmentwide source for citizens.
The Memory Hole announced that it has added links to over 300 Congressional Research Service Reports (Long Reports, Short Reports, Issue Briefs, Appropriations Reports) that were recently removed from free public web access. These CRS research are only a selection of the total number published, and the editor of The Memory Hole website is actively …
“The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has expanded the options for electronically filing documents in trademark disputes. Using the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA) system, parties to a dispute now can file more documents electronically with the TTAB, …
Government Computer News reports that the Navy is piloting the use of enterprise blogging applications for specialized technical projects. This pilot will serve as an evaluation platform for adoption of blogging by other branches of the service.
From the FTC: “As of 8:00 a.m., November 3, 2003, consumers registered with the Do Not Call Registry filed more than 51,000 complaints against telemarketers who continue to call them. More than 33,000 telemarketing organizations have accessed the Registry, with over 650 downloading all of the area codes in the Registry.
ACLU’s Feature on MATRIX, the multi-state data mining program. The MATRIX: Total Information Awareness Reloaded – Data Mining Moves Into the States. Defunct Big Brother Spying Program Resurfaces as “Little Brother” in Seven States See my previous postings on MATRIX here and here.
