en.europa-eu-audience

Fixing the Access to Information System in Government

From Canada http://eaves.ca/2010/04/08/fixing-the-access-to-information-system-in-government/

An interesting point of view

See also

Open Gov Day - 30+ US Federal agencies release their Open Government strategic plans

Govloop has published a complete list of these Open Government plans via the free online public database service Socrata (a 3rd party provider of data.government sites), so you can review all the plans in a single location.

Many reports about cataloguing

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Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow (NISO) see réflexions du NISO sur la chaîne de production des métadonnées du livre

Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace (Library of Congress)
see  réflexions de la Library of Congress sur le "marché" des notices MARC

 Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices see  réflexion d'OCLC sur l'utilisation des champs MARC,

Sources :

Manue http://www.figoblog.org/node/1982

http://bccn.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/pourquoi-les-catalogues-ne-peuvent-pas-etre-2-0/

Translation: The many voices of the web

The internet: New combinations of human and computer translation are making web pages available in foreign languages from http://www.economist.com/science-technology/technology-quarterly/   Free download

Varieties of participation

Source : http://greatemancipator.com/2010/03/11/varieties-of-participation/

In the EU eGovernment Benchmarking 2010+ report by Alexander Schellong advantage is made of the “democracy cube” developed by Archon Fung, I presume, one of his colleagues at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Fung’s paper, recipient of 81 citations to-date, is entitled “Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance” and is well worth a read in its own right. 

A new version of epub ?

See

GFII, l'International Digital Publishing Forum 

Source (FR): Manue http://www.figoblog.org/node/1983

UK Government switching Crown Copyright to be Creative Commons friendly

Version française April 06, 2010: An example for EU Institutions

The UK government has announced that the UK will be phasing out the 'Click-Use' online licenses for the reuse of Crown and Parliamentary Copyrights by May this year with a new license modelled on Creative Commons 3.0.

Social media policy and e-Government: USA’s DOD and Brazil directives

U.S. DOD issues long-awaited social media policy

USA: Memo lays out rules for various Internet tools, By Wyatt Kash, Doug Beizer. Federal Computer Week, February 26, 2010. "Defense Department officials finally released a long-awaited set of policy directives for the use of social networking and other Internet-based technologies. The DOD sought to balance utility with security, and the final result puts military leaders on notice that they must take responsibility for the cybersecurity of their operations..."

Further information on DOD issues long-awaited social media policy

New Publication of Consolidated Treaties

Source: http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/2010/03/new-publication-of-consolidated-treaties.html

There's a new publication of the consolidated version of the Treaties in the OJ, 2010 C 83, p. 1.

You can download the complete version here.

Here's the link to the full collection which includes the Treaty on the European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Protocols, Annexes,and Declarations. There's also the all important and useful Table of Equivalences showing the correspondence between the old and new article numbering.

This publication also includes the Charter of Fundamental Rights which now has legal force.

And there's a consolidated version of the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty in the OJ 2010 C 84, p. 1.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Australian Government endorses WCAG 2.0 and stipulates compliance by 2015

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Monday, March 01, 2010

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten issued a joint media release last Tuesday 23 February confirming that the Australian Government had endorsed the W3C's latest accessibility standard, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (or WCAG 2.0).

Excellent "Getting Started with Gov 2.0" Guide

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Steve Radick has written an excellent "Getting Started with Government 2.0" Guide.

Designed for those new to the Gov 2.0 space, Steve's guide provides a great range of information from what Gov 2.0 means through how to take baby steps into the area to good blogs and sites to read.

Source: http://egovau.blogspot.com/2010/04/excellent-getting-started-with-gov-20.html