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• Berlin Commemorates Fall of Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin, ensuring that capitalist and democratic West Berlin remained surrounded on all sides by the communist German Democratic Republic, where a permanent state of martial law kept millions prisoner for decades. West Germany was forced to move its seat of government to Bonn, to ...
  10 hours ago

• A Very Long Ramble on "Votes Cast" and the Initiatives

  
  Saipan Writer — Authority: 462
  I know--this is too long and rambling, but still, this is how my mind sometimes works. So fwiw: “Votes Cast”—a question of law, not politics. The Commonwealth Election Commission has certified results from the election held November 7, 2009. It has included in its certification 1) a call for the run-off ...
  18 hours ago

• So You Want to be an Engaged Citizen II

  
  An Ordinary Person — Authority: 108
  A common complaint among many people is that government, politicians and government entities are not responsive to the needs and concerns of average, ordinary citizens. That there are no easy, direct routes for ordinary people in order to have meaningful communications and relationship with government and the people ...
  1 day ago

• Clearing the Air

  
  Center for Justice — Authority: 128
  Spokane board settles open meetings case with Center for Justice. The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency announced today that its board of directors has approved a settlement with the Center for Justice regarding alleged Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) violations in 2006. At the time, the agency–then known as the ...
  1 day ago

• Secrecy News Editor to Speak at Scripps College

  
  CalAware Today — Authority: 121
  OPEN GOVERNMENT -- Steven Aftergood, editor of Secrecy News and director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, will speak on the topic "Secrecy and Democracy: Paradox and Policy" on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boone Recital Hall, Scripps College Performing Arts ...
  1 day ago

• ITN Video Montage of Events Surrounding Fall of Berlin Wall

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video shows the emotional exuberance of the massive crowds of millions that flooded the streets of Berlin around the places where the wall was being dismantled and the checkpoints where cars were being allowed through. The iconic East German Trebant cars were symbolic of the people’s urge to peek through the ...
  1 day ago

• German Report from Night the Wall Fell

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video is in German, with English subtitles. It shows the convergence of thousands at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing, as news of the opening of the wall began to spread. The wall is slowly opened as the border guards begin to understand the scope of what is taking place. The political order has shifted so ...
  1 day ago

• Raw Video from Fall of Berlin Wall

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video shows original video footage from 12 November 1989, taken at various sites both before sunrise and later that morning. The video focuses on Potsdamer Platz and records the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the jubilation of those who flocked to the historic celebration.
  1 day ago

• Report on Fall of Berlin Wall, Collapse of Iron Curtain

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video shows an ABC News report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of reform and political change that rapidly swept across eastern Europe in the months surrounding that event. The report cites the efforts of mass movements of ordinary people to overthrow hardline totalitarian regimes through peaceful ...
  1 day ago

• Odd Trio Frees the Patent Database, Lulu to Start Offering DRM, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  A coalition of the unlikely frees the patent database Carl Malamud explains at O’Reilly Radar how so-called zero dollar deals by government agencies often lead to proprietary lock-in of public data. He then explains how three unlikely comrades–Intellectual Ventures, Google, and the Internet Archive–cooperated ...
  1 day ago

• Defending Clunkers with a Data Dump

  
  techPresident — Authority: 691
  CARS.gov, the Department of Transportations online home for its Cash-for Clunkers program, has posted the raw data on the nearly 700,000 cars that were traded in during the course of the month-long program. ( via Paul Blumenthal) Theres an interesting subtext here that goes beyond a simple government data dump. ...
  1 day ago

• Secrets, secrets, secrets.

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 138
  Michael Noyes at the Montana Policy Institute has a great investigative piece up about government secrets. You might recall that Governor Schweitzer was touting the Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Manufacturing Facility as an economic boon for Butte-Silverbow. I’ve got no beef with the Governor there; it would be a good ...
  2 days ago

• OGA Initiative Passes - Congratulations Tina!

  
  Unheard No More! — Authority: 429
  November 8, 2009 "When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people." -- Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Congratulations to Tina Sablan for her tireless work in the introduction and passage of the Open Government Act Initiative! ...
  2 days ago

• Case Report – Fed Court comments on jurisdiction to receive ATIA applications

  
  All About Information — Authority: 411
  On October 13th, the Federal Court had an opportunity to comment on its jurisdiction to receive applications for review under section 41 of the Access to Information Act . It held that the Court’s jurisdiction is based on a “genuine and continuing claim of refusal of access.” This supported a finding that it ...
  4 days ago

• Open Government Hack Day in Australia, A Command Line Interface for Twitter, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  Australian hack day, working on open government data A good write up, found via Gnat’s four short links on O’Reilly Radar, of one of the first endorsed hack-a-thons. Perhaps a good preview of a similar project that Sunlight has already announced for next month. The case for a command line interface for ...
  4 days ago

• A Bill That Big...

  
  techPresident — Authority: 691
  Why, its nearly as good as having a seat in a House conference room, surrounded by congressional Republicans! The National Republican Congressional Committee is going full-on multimedia in its push to zero in just how long their Democratic counterparts health care legislation is, and to make the point that processing ...
  4 days ago

• Advocates Renew Calls for Transparency in ACTA process

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 490
  CDT and other advocates sent a letter to President Obama today once again urging greater transparency as the US negotiates a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ). While the administration has permitted some advocates (including my colleague David Sohn) to review the US-authored Internet portion of the ...
  5 days ago

• Legally Open: NYS Senate Unveils New Legislative Portal

  
  techPresident — Authority: 691
  The New York State Senates new Open Legislation portal launched this morning, meant as an upgrade to this . Among the new features on this beta version of Open Legislation: the dead-simple Google-like search interface you see above, and, thanks to the advent of permalinks, the ability for Google to actually crawl ...
  5 days ago

• Open Legislation Website is open for business

  
  The Daily Gotham - grassroots news and activism for new yorkers — Authority: 497
  Andrew Hoppin, the New York States Senates Chief Information Officer has had his team pretty busy. I got an email from their Director of Onine Communications, Phillip Anderson (one of the first bloggers here at The Daily Gotham and formerly of The Albany Project ) describing the project: The new site is extremely ...
  5 days ago

• The White Houses Social Graph

  
  techPresident — Authority: 691
  An interesting little outgrowth of the White Houses preliminary data release last week of the visitor logs on who came knocking at the White House: the public emergence of, to borrow a term from Facebook, what we might call the White Houses "social graph." The Obama White House has committed to uploading the ...
  5 days ago

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