Results tagged “government” from O'Reilly News

Audio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for Everyone
Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable access to broadband.
Terry Childs: San Francisco's Imprisoned FiberWAN Administrator
Is Terry Childs a Maniacal Hacker-Terrorist or a Capable and Dedicated System Administrator. While the mainstream media paints a colorful picture of villain and vice, Paul Venezia of infoworld uncovers a different story. What if this is just the case of job termination gone wrong.
Audio: Rep. Culberson on Twittering, Energy, and Science
In this 24 minute interview, John Culberson backs down from the partisan call to arms he issued this week on Twitter. He discusses transparency and technology in Congress, and the efforts to clarify the rules governing which web sites a member of Congress can participate in. Culberson also talks about wind energy, nuclear energy, oil exploration, doubling the budget for the National Science Foundation, and interesting innovations in Carbon Nanotubes which could dramatically change the way we use and store energy.
Let Our Congress Tweet.  Sign the Petition.
Social network is just beginning to affect the way the governed relate to The Government. Let's not close the door on congressional access to tools like Twitter, Qik, and Identi.ca. The Sunlight Foundation urges the Congress to clarify rules and remove restrictions on member web use. If you want congress to let member tweet, sign the petition by tweeting.
The reason why I think data that should be freely available is the largest set of Government data is that many of the forms of this data can bind to everything, for example location data is often held by the government and just about everything real has location. Time data is often held by government archives, and the data goes back lots longer than the data that must be maintained secretly.
The Internet Archive obeys robots.txt of course (lucky for you if you have access to it on your site, otherwise not so much) and they will also agree to remove things at the domain owners request. Other libraries might not be so accommodating, specifically the Danish netarchive might not be so accommodating, lets look at some stuff they say - the following is from the already linked survey report:
Web 2.0 for Government 1.0
Governments should focus on making public data accessible in web-friendly formats. Here are links to an article about a study from the Princeton's Information Technology Policy Center as well as a presentation I gave at a Digital Government Summit last December.

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