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• Access to Information: Obama Plan Could Limit Records Hidden from Public

  
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  From the Article: President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old government records hidden from the public. In an ...
  19 hours ago

• Internet Regulation Threatens Free Expression

  
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  Internet Regulation Threatens Free Expression Government regulation of the Internet could “provide the vehicle for advancing new First Amendment theories for media regulation,” warns Robert Corn-Revere in “The First Amendment, the Internet & Net Neutrality: Be Careful What You Wish For,” released today ...
  19 hours ago

• WikiLeaks.org Applies $532K from Knight Foundation to Expand Use of Its Anonymous Submission System

  
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  From the Article: …the time has come for WikiLeaks, which calls itself “the first intelligence agency of the people,” to think locally, says Daniel Schmitt, a German computer engineer who is a full-time unpaid spokesman for the Web site. “We are trying to bring WikiLeaks more directly to communities,” he ...
  20 hours ago

• Citizens to Improve USA.gov, GSA Opens Public Dialog

  
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  Citizens to Improve USA.gov, GSA Opens Public Dialog Responding to President Obama’s goal for a more citizen-centered government that is transparent, participatory, and collaborative, the U.S. General Services Administration today opened the citizens’ portal to government, USA.gov, for public input by ...
  2 days ago

• New Report: Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century

  
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  From the Summary: A report released today from Ithaka S+R – “Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century” – examines the essential role of the Federal Library Depository Program (FDLP) in distributing, providing access to and preserving ...
  4 days ago

• Testimony: Archivist of the United States, Librarian of Congress & Others, Testify Before U.S. House Subcommittee

  
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  Yesterday, David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, James Billington, Librarian of Congress, and others testified before the House Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009. The title of the hearing was, “History Museum or Records Access Agency? ...
  4 days ago

• The reviews are in

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  Lawrence Martin describes the Cons anti-democratic practices in government: Theres an old-fashioned idea, once a Reform Party thing, that regular people – those grassroots folks – should have a sniff of the action. As nice as it sounds, dont go there. You need to amass unparalleled executive power so everything ...
  4 days ago

• Carl Malamud Wants You to Have Access to U.S. Government Web Film/Video

  
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  Earlier today, Carl Malamud, who some call a “rogue” archivist and liberator (we call him inspiring) testified before Congress during a session named, “History Museum or Records Access Agency? Defining and Fulfilling the Mission of the National Archives and Records Administration.” He tells Boing Boing, ...
  5 days ago

• Action Alert! Tell the White House to Open Access to Federal Research

  
  FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture — Authority: 452
  The following is a guest post from Nick Shockey of SPARC . Last Wednesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a Request for Information on the issue of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research. Executive action stemming from this RFI could potentially open all federally ...
  5 days ago

• Plan B

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  Following up on last nights post , it seems that theres some consensus that a committee meeting cant officially operate in the absence of quorum - whether due to the clerk having to take notice of the numbers, or otherwise. So carrying on formal hearings in the absence of the Cons apparently isnt an option - as ...
  5 days ago

• Report: Overcoming barriers: access to research information

  
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  From the Summary: The report’s key fnding is that access is still a major concern for researchers. Although researchers report having no problems fnding content in this age of electronic information, gaining access is another matter due to the complexity of licensing arrangements, restrictions placed on ...
  5 days ago

• The reviews are in

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  William Johnson : The fundamental issue is no longer the appropriate treatment of detainees. At issue is the credibility of the government and its responsibility to answer to Parliament and so to the people of Canada. The government has subverted Canadian democracy by its constant misinformation, by its withholding ...
  6 days ago

• Australia: Internet Censorship Plan Gets the Green Light

  
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  From the Article: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet. [Snip] Senator [Stephen] Conroy also released results from a ...
  6 days ago

• Look What We Found: 22 Million “Lost” E-Mail Messages from the Bush Administration

  
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  From the Article: White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press. The discovery was announced Monday by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and ...
  6 days ago

• “State of the Archives” by David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States,

  
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  Last week we posted a link to an in-depth profile of the new Archivist of the United States and librarian, David Ferriero. However, we didn’t post a link to his recent “State of the Archives Speech” that occurred on December 3, 2009. Here’s the full text along with with a link to view the speech as a ...
  1 week ago

• Standing ovation for Moyo at congress

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  Prof Jonathan Moyo bounces back By Our Correspondent HARARE – As the names of the members of the Zanu-PF Central Committee were announced at the end of the party’s just ended national congress, the loudest and longest round of applause went to Professor Jonathan Moyo, President Robert Mugabe’s former ...
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• Still irresponsible

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  As part of last weeks developments on the Afghan detainee cover-up, the Cons have started using two new excuses for refusing to turn over the information demanded by Parliament. So while Ill note in another post today why its pointless to spend much time answering the Cons deflection tactics, Ill take a moment for now ...
  1 week ago

• Gettin’ Googly with the law

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 125
  Over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog there’s a terrific discussion of Google Scholar Legal and Online Journals (SLOJ) versus Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, and Westlaw (“Wexisberg” being Greg Lambert’s clever amalgamation of the two big CALR vendors plus upstart Bloomberg ).One of Greg’s observations is that:Google ...
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• On prebuttals

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  Im sure Susan Delacourt means well in suggesting a "compromise" where opposition MPs would receive access to information about Afghan detainees only after being sworn to the Privy Council and agreeing not to disclose the truth further. But as Ive already noted, the reasons why the Cons might be perfectly willing to ...
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• Now where have we heard this before...

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  Shorter Con response to the House of Commons law clerks analysis pointing out the supremacy of Parliament in requesting documents from the government: In keeping with the distinctive nature of Canadian parliamentary democracy, the President Prime Minister can hide any document from Congress Parliament merely by ...
  1 week ago

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