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Transparency: abstract of S.I. in the french Gazette (JORF)

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Source : 14/12/2009, by Emmanuel Barthe // Portails juridiques officiels - Diffusion des données juridiques publiques

http://www.precisement.org/blog/Un-resume-officiel-des-decrets.html#forum216

Have a look on deux décrets (two S.I.)

A good practice that could be used in EUR-Lex to increase the transparency

US Open Government Directive

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Source: eGOV resource center (Australia), 8/12/2009

On December 8, 2009, the Office of Management and Budget published a Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies called the "Open Government Directive".

This memorandum directs US federal government departments and agencies to implement principles of transparency, participation and collaboration across their organizations.

The Open Government Directive has designated deadlines for action. Below are some of the steps to help create a more open government

Easily associate a social network to an existing website

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An interesting idea for EU websites : associate to an existing website the features of a social network but also to be able to analyse it .

Have a look on

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2168721 (Video EN)

http://www.stribe.com/en/index

Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

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Source : The Great E-mancipator http://greatemancipator.com/2009/12/14/e-democracy/

 A good book to read for Christmas holidays

Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November 2009)

 

Download individual chapters http://odbook.stanford.edu/viewing/htmldocument/75

or

Download the full book free (12 Mbytes) in PDF format see  http://odbook.stanford.edu/

Legal Informatics and Management of Legislative Documents

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After the  World e-Parliament Conference 2009 (see the aide-memoire)

Abstract

This report aims at providing an overview of the state of the art and of the prospects of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the legislative domain, in particular concerning the management of legislative documents. After a brief introduction on legal informatics, we focus on legislative informatics and identify the challenges it faces nowadays, in the framework of the Internet and the (semantic) Web. We then describe the evolution of the ICT-based management of legislative documents and identify and evaluate the emergent approaches, focusing on those based on open standards. The report is completed by two appendixes: the first reviews initiatives pertaining to the standard-based management of legal sources, the second reviews initiatives pertaining to semantic resources for legislation. (jan 2008)

Sources : http://www.ictparliament.org/resources/WP002_legislativeinformatics.pdf and home at http://www.ictparliament.org/

 

Better ways to collaborate than e-mail

Source: The Economist, Dec 10th 2009, Technology Quarterly

Software: E-mail has severe limitations as an online collaboration tool, but it has the benefit of ubiquity. Might it be displaced by something new?

Read on http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15048827

Natively XML editing : the Holy Grail for redactors ?

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Sources :

http://toc.oreilly.com/startwithxml/

http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/01/beyondprint-offers-a-helpful-r.html

http://www.beyond-print.de/site/content/en/channel_news/news_0764.html

Everybody in publishing world believes that MS Word is not the right stuff for editing and that XML tools are the best way.

OK but …

PDF Europe ?

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PDF means Personal Democracy Forum, for the first time in Europe, a meeting in Barcelona

See http://personaldemocracy.com/europe

Source (FR) InternetActu, 7-12-2009, Dossier, Personal Democracy Forum Europe

References (french texts)

PDF Europe : Quelles leçons tirer de la campagne d’Obama ?

PDF Europe : Comment internet interroge-t-il l’Europe ?

PDF Europe : Réinventer la démocratie à l’heure des réseaux et de la transparence

PDF Europe : e-gov vs. we-gov, collaboration ou conflit ?

Obama Admin. Issues Open Gov Directive

Source: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1399-Obama-Admin-Issues-Open-Gov-Directive

8-12-2009 From the well-known OpenCongress.org

On his first day in office, President Obama issued a memo to heads of all federal agencies and departments that outlined his principles for open government. In order to “strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness,” government should be transparent, participatory and collaborative, he wrote in the memo.

Today, the Obama Administration took the next step in his open government initiative by releasing a document, the Open Government Directive (.pdf), that directs the agencies and departments on how to implement the principles he laid out in January. It’s an 11-page document, written by Peter Orszag from the Office of Management and Budget, that spells out specific requirements and deadlines.

And what's new about EU in this domain ? 

Managing the future adoption of Gov 2.0 in Australia

We're beginning to see significant activity in the Gov 2.0 space across Australia, and with the impending release of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce's report there's likely to be even more activity in the coming year.

This is definitely not a time for Gov 2.0 proponents to rest on their laurels as there are still many challenges to face before Government 2.0 is firmly embedded within the culture and practice of the public sector.

Read more on http://egovau.blogspot.com/2009/12/managing-future-adoption-of-gov-20-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EgovAu+%28eGov+AU%29&utm_content=Google+Reader