en.europa-eu-audience

Google search : a pivotal access point for audience

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You like it or don’t but Google search is a pivotal access point for most of us.

The share market is a little less than 80% in UK, more than 80% in France   

That means that you have to improve your ranking on this search engine.

Perhaps time consuming, but why to spend so much money to build and feed websites if it is unknown.

Audience must be a focus activity

Stats Show Google Dominates the International Search Landscape

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625072
(Source: Search Engine Watch, Feb 22, 2007)

Measuring the impacts of ICT using official statistics

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OECD: Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society

Measuring the impacts of ICT using official statistics

Source : http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2007doc.nsf/LinkToFrench/NT00005A42/$FILE/JT03238425.PDF (english version, 04/01/2008)

5000 public reports in free access

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from ServiceDoc Info by Stephane Cottin

See on the Letter of the « Bibliothèque des Rapports Publics »(BRP)  feb. 2008, (noted by Anne Chalandon sur la liste Juriconnexion) the new Univers Netvibes de La Documentation Française

Unfortunately, that is not the case at EU Institutions level

Justice Forum: Networking in the Area of Justice, Freedom and Security

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“The Commission has announced that it will set up a "Justice Forum" on April 15th 2008 to talk about the application of the laws in the area of justice, freedom and security”.

Source: Bartolus (EU Law Blog) at http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/2008/02/justice-forum-n.html

Good idea

LoC and Flickr

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Source: Katell Gueguen,  22-01-2008, Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France
In actualité des bibliothèques , archivage et catalogage, conservation et patrimoine

“LoC” for Library of Congress: the biggest library in the world: http://www.loc.gov

LoC loaded in Flickr ( see http://flickr.com/people/library_of_congress/ ) around 3000 pictures with a licence crative commons

Why LoC on Flickr ? Library of Congress Photos on Flickr:
see Frequently Asked Questions and also http://flickr.com/commons

Why not such an initiative by European Parliament ?

The electronic bureaucrat ("The Economist")

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The last published “The Economist” issued on Feb 16 th 2008 a 14-page special report on technology and government.
The report could be founded at www.economist.com/specialreports

“Putting their services online should allow governments to serve their citizens much more effectively. But despite heavy spending, progress has been patchy, says Edward Lucas”

In the” leaders” section, The Economist said that “the three main reasons are:

• Lack of competitive pressure
• A tendency to reinvent the wheel
• A focus an technology rather than organisation”

Better regulation

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European Commission published recently 3 important working documents about the so-called “Better Regulation”

See below

Ireland, eGovernment : report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

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This report was issued on the 24/12/2007. It can be downloaded at http://www.audgen.gov.ie/documents/vfmreports/58_eGovernment.pdf

“The term eGovernment refers to the provision of public services using information and communications technology (ICT), particularly the internet. On-line service delivery enables members of the public to do business with providers of public services at any time. It also presents service providers themselves with opportunities to increase efficiency by streamlining their business processes. Two Government action plans, launched in 1999 and 2002, set out a series of actions and initiatives designed to exploit the potential benefits of eGovernment. This examination was undertaken to establish the extent to which government departments and agencies are providing information and services on-line and are using internet-based technology to improve their efficiency. Ireland's performance compared to other countries was examined. The development of the on-line Public Services Broker by Reach (a unit of the Department of Social and Family Affairs) was also examined”

(source: http://www.audgen.gov.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1081 )

See also: UK, , NAO: “Government on the internet: progress in deliering information services online 

New Legifrance service

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The Legisfrance service for access to french law was updated beginning 2008.
See the comments of some users ( in french language)

« Legifrance 2008 : commentaire à chaud sur les premières réactions (3)

from ServiceDoc Info by Stephane Cottin. Pour faire suite (en vitesse) sur les deux premiers articles 16 janvier 2008 : découverte de Legifrance 2008 (1) et 16 janvier 2008 : Legifrance 2008, premières réactions (2), et avant une analyse plus poussée, je me permets de faire quelques petites remarques au vu des trois premiers jours de commentaires et d'utilisation de la nouvelle version … »

See also the post of Emmanuel Barthe :  Legifrance 2008 : la cavalerie arrive un peu en retard, mais toujours à temps published on 26 janvier 2008

EUR-Lex, the access to European Union law :  english version

When an efficient and personalised service to notify the news by email and by RSS feeds will be vailable (it was promised for end 2007) !?