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• Philippine Clan Leader Arrested in Connection with Massacre of 57 Civilians

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  Andal Apatuan, Jr., the heir to a powerful political dynasty on the southern Philippine Island of Mindanao, and a candidate for governor in 2010, has been taken into custody after a raid by military and police forces. Ampatuan is running to replace his father as governor of Maguindanao province, his father being ...
  13 hours ago

• Online conflict in the light of mimetic theory

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 576
  I am sure most readers of this essay know well the “community cycle” - the way on-line communities get started, they thrive with peaceful, civil conversations, helpful strangers and kind atmosphere, and later how suddenly some seemingly innocent misunderstandings grow into flamewars, people stop listening to each ...
  1 day ago

• The White House Spotlights "Labs of Democracy"

  
  techPresident — Authority: 649
  U.S. Deputy CIO for open government Beth Noveck surveys the landscape , finding experiments in participatory democracy bubbling up throughout these United States: Inspired by the President’s call for more open government, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts launched its data catalogue, following in the footsteps ...
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• An Interview with Craig Fugate, Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

  
  techPresident — Authority: 649
  Hurricanes might gather force, low-lying areas pool with water, and wildfires rage much as they long have. But today they rise as a challenge to a different American people. From mobile phones to Twitter, the communications networks woven into our daily lives would be unrecognizable to the victims of the San ...
  2 days ago

• Stem Cell Research Agency Keeps Secretive Style

  
  CalAware Today — Authority: 129
  OPEN GOVERNMENT -- After its first five years, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) still hasnt learned to take governmental transparency seriously. "Recently . . . the agency has had difficulty even complying withthe basic state public records law and the state Constitutions publicaccess ...
  2 days ago

• Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 132
  Justice systems around the world have been turned upside down over the past several years because of the Internet. The basic sets of laws, often founded on a nations constitution, are being used in ways that forefathers never anticipated or envisioned.
  3 days ago

• Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 2)

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 132
  Its been suggested in many articles that President Obama won the U.S. election in 2008 because his campaign used Twitter, Facebook and other social media effectively over the course of the campaign that spanned two years. But this new instant social media clearly it works both ways.
  3 days ago

• Post JFK, Its Not Just Another Sunday Before Thanksgiving

  
  Middle Border Sun — Authority: 464
  Its just another Sunday before Thanksgiving. Most people are relaxing before short work week, the travel to relatives, the fixing of big turkey dinners, and the shopping on Black Friday. But it really isnt just another S unday before Thanksgiving. Forty-six years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was ...
  4 days ago

• Beth Noveck on Open Government

  
  Talkin' bout a revolution — Authority: 100
  At last week’s Web 2.0 Expo Tim O’Reilly interviewed Beth Noveck (Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government) on how the Open Government initiative was progressing throughout Federal, State and Local Government. Noveck explained how President Obama’s vision of a more transparent, participatory and ...
  4 days ago

• Try a Little Openness

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 138
  Saturday’s lead editorial is a reminder than in its secondround, the Horry County Council’s search for a new administrator should havethe transparency the first round mostly lacked. Though the process improved towardthe end, taxpayers dont know exactly what led their representatives on theHorry County Council to ...
  4 days ago

• YouTube Captioning Makes Video More Accessible for All

  
  on dot-gov — Authority: 400
  Dear Google/YouTube, We want it. We want it NOW! xoxo, Your Dot-gov Buddies A big barrier to making video content available to people who cant hear is creating captions for the audio--like the closed captioning you see on TV. This is especially important to government because we are required-- by law and ...
  5 days ago

• NMI to present IPRA seminar Dec. 1

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 572
  So you’re looking for some information that can only be found the public records of a government agency or office–but when you request those records, you hit a brick wall. What do you do? The New Mexico Independent is teaming up with the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government and KNME-TV to present a free ...
  5 days ago

• Command Line GeoTwitter

  
  ....::: VOX POPULI :::.... — Authority: 410
  A few months back I wrote a quick post about tweeting from the command line . With the recent announcement that Twitter’s location feature is starting to go live , I decided to revisit this idea, with an eye toward adding locational information. (I am, at heart, a cheapskate - I could have bought one of the ...
  6 days ago

• Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 132
  The answer is, maybe both. The Internet has plunged government institutions into a very steep learning curve, creating new frontiers that many bureaucrats believe help how they run the country.
  6 days ago

• After the Open Data and Semantic Web Workshop

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 459
  Last week we had a workshop on Open Data and the Semantic Web in London. There were some excellent talks, demos and discussions - and documentation is now online! As a result of discussions we had at the workshop, we now have two new volunteer positions at the Open Knowledge Foundation. If you’re interested in ...
  6 days ago

• British Pound Fails to Find Support at 20-Day SMA, Euro Maintains Narrow Range

  
  Forex - Foreign Exchange Blog — Authority: 151
  The British Pound weakened against the greenback for the fourth day and slipped below the 20-Day SMA (1.6580) to a low 1.6516 during the European trade, and the currency may face increased selling pressures going into the North American session as investors scale back their appetite for risk.See original here: British ...
  6 days ago

• Opening a Dialog on New York State Legislation

  
  ....::: VOX POPULI :::.... — Authority: 410
  Innovative things on the transparency front continue to emerge from Albany, thanks to the crew working for the NY Senate CIO. The latest - an Open Legislation portal that allows New Yorkers to search for bills by sponsor, status or keyword and to initiate a dialog on bills. Users of the site can comment on bills ...
  6 days ago

• Iran to Execute Post-election Demonstrators

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  A court in Iran has sentenced 5 people to death for their role in post-election anti-government protests this summer. At least 81 people have been sentenced to jail terms ranging up to 15 years in prison, for protesting the government’s handling of the election and its violent crackdown on the protesters. The ...
  1 week ago

• Ordnance Survey to open up UK geospatial data

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 459
  In a press release earlier this week, it was announced that there will be moves to open up geospatial data produced by the Ordnance Survey: The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a ...
  1 week ago

• Reversal of Fortune

  
  Center for Justice — Authority: 426
  Amid charges of back-door deals and Cowles family influence, the Mobius Science Center project hits a snag at the Spokane Park Board. By Tim Connor On Tuesday of this week, the long-running serial that Spokane historian Bill Stimson casts as the battle between Spokane’s “Insiders and Naysayers,” made a  ...
  1 week ago

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