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http://eaves.ca/ |
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, ICT for MDGs
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In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data - in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect. |
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53 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 30, 2010 |
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http://www.futuregov.asia/ |
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Monday, August 16, 2010 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, ICT for MDGs, Citizen Engagement
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Last week, an airline in the United States became the first company to allow customers to book directly through its Facebook page. Will citizens soon be able to transact directly with government on social media? In interviews with FutureGov, officials in Indonesia, Australia and Singapore say that despite data security concerns, some government transactions on Facebook or Twitter will very soon be ... Read More |
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39 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 30, 2010 |
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http://radar.oreilly.com |
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Monday, August 23, 2010 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, ICT for MDGs, Knowledge Management in Government
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Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer for the District of Columbia and a speaker at the upcoming Gov 2.0 Summit, has smartly mixed healthy realism with enthusiastic support for open source in government. The result is a message that resonates beyond open source evangelists. |
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3 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 30, 2010 |
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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/16/how-e-government-is-empowering-citizens-worldwide.html |
| Source Date: |
Monday, August 16, 2010 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement
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Skip the lines, forget about bribes. E-government gives anyone with a web connection direct access to public services.
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134 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 17, 2010 |
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Financial Times |
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Saturday, August 07, 2010 |
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Internet Governance
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RIM has long claimed that its business customers can be certain that encrypted e-mails routed through the company's Canadian servers cannot be accessed by interested third parties. The UAE appears to believe this and in its wake so too, apparently, do the Saudis, the Indians and other countries now demanding an end to the use of the peer-to-peer encryption at the heart of the dispute. The UAE's Te ... Read More |
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16 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 09, 2010 |
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Financial Times |
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
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Internet Governance
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Sir, Google's Marissa Mayer (" Do not neutralise the web's endless search ", July 15) is right to say that government regulation will stifle innovation in a still rapidly developing market. Regulation seems to be the knee-jerk reaction of the state when the free market fails to counter monopolies. But in the modern world of fast technological development it will simply not work. It will ... Read More |
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22 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Jul 21, 2010 |
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http://www.unpog.org |
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Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, ICT for MDGs, Knowledge Management in Government
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UNPOG successfully organized the International Conference on Good Governance for National Development from 17-18th June at the Millennium Seoul Hilton hotel. The conference has succeeded in drawing attention and providing a platform for collaborative efforts to share knowledge and best practices of Good Governance among over 250 participants from 41 countries.
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27 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Jun 30, 2010 |
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| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
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Internet Governance
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In the first place, the internet is not a repository of data; it is a network (copper and fibre optic cables, wires, and sometimes wireless) on which communications between "hosts" (computers or other electronic devices) is conducted. Data and information travel across the internet, but no information is stored on it. It is stored on computers, or tape drives, or CDs, or other electronic ... Read More |
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105 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Jun 11, 2010 |
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| Source: |
Financial Times |
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
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Internet Governance
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"There are probably no more than 1,000 people in China who are capable of producing genuinely new tools," says Eagle Wan, a veteran Chinese hacker who now works for IBM. "But those with basic training who can tweak and use tools are in their hundreds of thousands."
According to the China Internet Network Information Centre , the state-owned domain name registrar, just over ... Read More |
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221 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Apr 07, 2010 |
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http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/administration/nomination-public-sector-innovation.shtml |
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Monday, April 05, 2010 |
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ICT for MDGs, Knowledge Management in Government, Internet Governance
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DESA’s Division for Public Administration and Development Management received more than 200 nominations from 44 countries for the 2010 United Nations Public Service Awards.
The awards are arguably the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. |
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1125 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Apr 05, 2010 |
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