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• White House Office of Science & Tech Policy looks to open access to federally funded research

  
  JoeTrippi.com — Authority: 127
  Last week the Office of Management and Budget released its Open Government Directive which was immediately followed by announcements from more than 20 departments of their new open government initiatives. One of the programs that was announced last week was the Public Access Forum , sponsored by the White House ...
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• Meet the FACA

  
  techPresident — Authority: 610
  I have been dying to use that headline forever, and the Open Government Directive push has made my dream come true. Anyway, one of the "Cabinet commitments" that the White House is highlighting as part of round one of the initiatives launch is a release from the General Services Administration of more than 11,000 ...
  2 days ago

• Treasury Imposing “Terms of Use” to Access TARP Data

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 640
  In an astonishing move, the Treasury Department is requiring users to agree to “terms of use” before they can access and download TARP Transaction Reports in spreadsheet format. This requirement undermines the rationale for releasing the data, may implicate federal law, and is simply foolish. It also sets a bad ...
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• Your Data and Your Credit Card

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 587
  Over the weekend, I posted a blog on the AVIEN site http://avien.net/blog/ pointing to a blog by Roger Thompson ( http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2009/12/now-_this_-is-scary.html#axzz0ZYOquqRO ) about an instance of a credit card provider using "public" information he hadnt provided them with to authenticate him as a ...
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• Discount on Royal Berkley Filters

  
  Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest — Authority: 140
  Directive 21 is offering their Royal Berkleys for just $262.50 with free shipping to the US . If you want to give your spouse the gift of water filtration security for Christmas this would be a great way to do so.
  3 days ago

• A Watershed Moment in Transparency and Accountability

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 640
  I was out of town earlier this week when the Open Government was released and so I am just now weighing in with a few thoughts. Without being too over the top (OK maybe I am) I think this Directive potentially represents a watershed moment for democracy, the likes of which can forever change the relationship between ...
  4 days ago

• The EU should leave my aga alone

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  The battle against agas has taken a worrying turn, writes Gill Hornby.
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• Three Misconceptions about the Open Government Directive

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 640
  There are three common misconceptions about the Open Government Directive that I’d like to clear up. 1. “It was late.” Not so, unless you’re talking about hopes rather than requirements. This misconception comes from the language in the January 21st memo , which directed the “Chief Technology ...
  5 days ago

• Let a thousand open gov plans bloom. Or at least 17.

  
  techPresident — Authority: 610
  With a degree of coordination more associated with a teenage gymnasts than the United States federal government, in the short time since the Obama White House issued its call for a more open government on Tuesday morning, 17 of the biggest federal agencies have out memos or press releases touting what will be in their ...
  5 days ago

• A little outside help for federal new media directors

  
  techPresident — Authority: 610
  The Sunlight Foundation is offering advice to all you federal new media directors out there on how to comply with the new Open Government Directive from the White House.* Prefer a little one-on-one guidance? Starting December 21st, theyll be having a series of open office hours so that you can come by their south ...
  5 days ago

• Then they laugh at you: Open gov gets Daily Showd

  
  techPresident — Authority: 610
  Sure, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra , U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra , and White House new media director Macon Phillips come in for a round of Jon Stewarts special blending of mocking. (How many times do you think Chopras been called "an Indian George Clooney " since this aired?) Its got to ouch a bit. But theres a way to ...
  5 days ago

• ‘There’s a porpoise close behind me…’

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  … and it’s in trouble. The use of static nets is to blame. Now locally becoming an imperilled species, the Harbour porpoise can be seen regularly around Argyll waters and much of the Scottish coastline.They are the smallest member of the family which includes dolphins and whales, collectively known as Cetaceans. ...
  5 days ago

• Codex Alimentarius & Nutricide [3/5] - Rima Laibow

  
  Supplement Review — Authority: 140
  , they would be excluded from the Codex Alimentarius). The text does not seek to ban supplements, but to subject them to dosage, labeling and composition requirements. The Guidelines have attracted concern from both consumers and industry due to the potential for restrictions on vitamins and minerals as dietary ...
  5 days ago

• New Media Directors: What to Do

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 640
  For New Media Directors, Sunlight has three things… 1. Specific suggestions, in a bullet list below 2. A Chance to Brainstorm with Sunlight staff 3. Key passages of the Directive Specific Suggestions for New Media Directors New media directors and web managers in agencies across the federal government got a ...
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• Commerce pledges to open patents, small biz data

  
  techPresident blogs — Authority: 132
  Soon, were going to start bundling these announcements of new open government initiatives that every agency and their moms are issuing these days, but it makes sense to give some love and attention to the early movers. Here, the Commerce Department details the the steps its taking. Its worth keeping an eye on what ...
  6 days ago

• Demand to probe post-poll 2001 violence in Bangladesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Dhaka, Dec 10 (IANS) A lawyer in Bangladesh Thursday served a notice on the government to constitute an inquiry commission within seven days to investigate atrocities on religious minorities immediately after the 2001 parliamentary poll.Lawyer Manzill Murshed listed offences of murder, rape and torture of Hindus, ...
  6 days ago

• Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: contextualising the need

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 117
  My opening speech from the “Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: new perspectives, policies and practices” event yesterday (9th December 2009):Why do we need an event that focuses on Islamophobia and religious discrimination when, as Alistair Campbell once famously remarked to Tony Blair, as a nation “We ...
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• Trickle, trickle: Treasury Dept. gets into the open gov game

  
  techPresident blogs — Authority: 132
  Three makes a trend! Tim Geithners Treasury Department just put out a press release touting its open government plan . Or, at least, some core building blocks for a plan to come. Specifically, Treasury committed to the publication of what it sees as three high-value data sets: migration data culled from tax ...
  6 days ago

• What Data Do You Want? How Would You Use It?

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 640
  Based on the Open Government Directive issued by the White House yesterday, American Public Media is asking its National Public Insight Network to find out what kind of data people would really like to see. Here’s a link to their survey . Minnesota Public Radio has already begun to ask its listeners this ...
  6 days ago

• White House gives agencies transparency to-do list

  
  theCLog — Authority: 441
  From our friends at ProPublica.org : Open government advocates got an early holiday gift from the White House today. The Office of Management and Budget released the detailed directive to federal agencies on transparency that President Barack Obama called for on his second day in office. The 11-page ...
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