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State-by-State Report on Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Information, June 2003, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), 292 pages, pdf. “The purpose of this study was to assess the level of permanent public access to electronic government information across all state governments… The survey results reveal that no state is comprehensively addressing these challenges. …
From FCW: In the July 11 Federal Register you will find the General Services Administration’s draft policy outlining how federal agencies should validate the identities of users conducting business through e-government applications. e-Authentication home page
“The IRS launched a Web site to make it easier for political organizations to electronically file required documents and improve the publics access to the information. The Political Organizations Filing and Disclosure site, at www.irs.gov/polorgs, reflects congressional changes from last year intended to ensure that political organizations with tax-exempt status, known as Section 527 political …
Border tracking system will be partially operational by years end. “One of the Bush administrations most ambitious and complicated homeland security initiatives (the US-Visit Program) – the tracking of about 35 million foreign visitors as they enter and exit the United States annually – will be partially operational by the end of the year, Homeland …
Testimony and Statement for the Record of Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Deputy Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center, at the Hearing on Use and Misuse of the Social Security Number, Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means. U.S. House of Representatives, July 10, 2003. Witness List and links to other testimony.
DARPA’s Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) is soliciting proposals for a program called Real-World Reasoning, to “explore and develop foundations, technology and tools to enable effective, practical automated reasoning of the scale and complexity required for computers to perform complex tasks in the real world requiring intelligence.” “Specifically, the program intends to: 1. Develop and …
Electronic Records: Management and Preservation Pose Challenges, by Linda D. Koontz, director, information management, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-936T, July 8. From the same subcommittee, see also this hearing, Wiring Our National Archives, Federal Electronic Records Management Review, July 8, 2003. “The …
The 2003 Cato Institute report (40 pages in pdf), Ten Thousand Commandments, An Annual Report of the Federal Regulatory State. “The 2002 Federal Register contained an all-time record 75,606 pages, a nearly 9 percent increase over 2001.” See also 2002 Federal Register Is Longest Ever (Washington Post, July 8, 2003).
Turnabout is fair play – from TIA to GIA: Open Government Information Awareness (GIA Project) website, sponsored by the MIT Media Lab, provides the source code for the applications that power the site: “To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of …
From Govtech.net: “The vast majority of government executives believe their agencies are not yet consistently delivering “superior customer service,” although they identify it as a top priority, according to a global study released this month by Accenture.” Accenture Study: CRM in Government: Bridging the Gaps -Governments Expectations for CRM Still Do Not Match Their Experience.
Restore America’s freedom of information, by Sens. Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin. “The Bush administration has made secrecy, not sunshine, its default position, whether the issue is industry input to the national energy policy (current report has yet to be issued), the names of those detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, or potential vulnerabilities in …
Webcast of Hearings are now available from the House of Representatives, Committee on Judiciary. (Real Player is required)
