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Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines covers 17 areas of website design, navigation, organization and content, and offers 187 site optimization guidelines developed primarily for federal government website managers and designers. The guide was created by the National Cancer Institute’s Usability.gov section.
Today the WSJ reported on a the results of privacy study conducted last month by the Ponemon Institute, an organization “dedicated to advancing ethical information and privacy management practices in business and government.” There is no link available to the text of the study. However the article states that its author, Larry Ponemon, “a pioneer …
Each year the Congressional Research Search (CRS) publishes approximately 1,000 reports of which the public may have access to several hundred. In an interesting change of policy, Secrecy News reports that access to selected reports previously provided via the websites of two members of Congress, Rep. Mark Green (R-WI) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT), has …
Achieving E-Government for All: Highlights from a National Survey, published October 22, by Darrell M. West, Director, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University. More than 1,600 local, state and federal websites were reviewed using the free Bobby Accessibility Test. Several key facts: government data is increasingly migrating to the web; more than 100 million …
Federal Computer Week reports on the continued lack of support for funding e-government initiatives, as the Senate approved a paltry $5 million of the $45 million requested by the President for Fiscal 2004. According to the OMB’s Statement of Administration Policy: “As has been demonstrated by successes from the modest $5 million invested in each …
As I posted yesterday, Roll Call published an article that seemed to indicate the GPO was evaluating whether it would continue providing free public access to a range of government documents. The library community apparently reacted swiftly and strongly to this information, and late this afternoon, the Superintendent of Documents, Judith C. Russell, posted the …
Georgia takes a pass on anti-terror crime database: Georgia has joined five other states that have opted to suspend participation, due to privacy concerns, in the DOJ initiated MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) project. According to a statement by Gov. Sonny Perdue, “The State of Georgia will not transfer any additional information to the company …
The Center for Digital Government announced the results of the 2003 Digital Legislatures Survey. Participation for the survey was solicited from all fifty states, and the Nevada Legislature Online was chosen the “most digitally advanced legislature in the country.” The Minnesota State Legislature and South Dakota Legislature websites were named second best. The rest of …
The EPA’s Enforcement & Compliance History Online (ECHO) database was released in final version this past August, with the current data updated through September. “Use ECHO to determine whether: Compliance inspections have been conducted by EPA or State/local governments; Violations were detected; Enforcement actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response to environmental law …
Electronic Rulemaking: Efforts to Facilitate Public Participation Can Be Improved. GAO-03-901, September 17. Highlights. This report reviews whether agency websites are efficient at serving the public by providing access to proposed rules, permitting comments on those rules, access to related materials, and to the comments of others.
From the FTC press release: “Consumers registered with the National Do Not Call list have filed more than 15,000 complaints against telemarketers who continue to call them. The Do Not Call list, which opened to consumer registrations on June 27, 2003, currently contains 53.7 million telephone numbers. Telemarketers began accessing the Registry on September 2, …
From the USA Today: “The State Technology Office is privatizing several of its functions, including the MyFlorida Web site and maintenance of the state’s technology systems.”
