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Opening up data in the Home Office
http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/07/24/Opening-up-data-in-the-Home-Office.aspx
Openly Local Opens up Local Government
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| One of the most interesting developments in the world of openness has been
| the growing move to open up government. In the UK, the scandal over MPs'
| expenses has helped to expose the perils of lack of transparency at the
| national level, but far less attention is being paid to local government.
| That's a pity, because it's precisely local data that impacts most of us more
| directly.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2417&blogid=14
Recent:
Does UK Government Grok the GPL?
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| This is really quite interesting. It seems as though the UK government are
| starting, finally, to get the whole âCommonsâ thing.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/06/18/does-uk-government-grok-the-gpl/
Laissez-faire community building
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| "Community" can be a squishy concept at times, simultaneously important yet
| very hard to quantify and qualify. Even so, Walker's suggestions point to
| ways to get the most value from communities by giving the most value to those
| communities.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10268160-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Helping Them â and You - Investigate
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| As you may have heard, there's a bit of a brouhaha in UK politics at the
| moment â something to do with MPs' expenses, I gather. What you may not know
| is that the original cause of this upheaval is not, as many think, The Daily
| Telegraph â even though that has been the instrument of all the fuss.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2235&blogid=14
How Open Source Will Save the World (Really)
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| Fantastic to see someone with considerable power making the connection
| between intellectual monopolies and the problem of mitigating climate
| change - and seeing that open source is a practical way to get around the
| problem.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-open-source-will-save-world-really.html
OpenGov.pot
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| One of the most obvious downsides of seeking greater public input into the
| government's agenda-setting process has been the almost inevitable hijacking
| of this process by groups with their own (often rather radical) agendas to
| promote. Such groups usually manage to quickly mobilize their supporters, who
| then visit the site and usually vote en masse (often from different
| computers), rendering most Âcampaigns to aggregate public opinion on what the
| government priorities should be pretty useless.
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http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/29/opengovpot
Bulgarian criminals seek shelter as MEP candidates
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| Several controversial 'businessmen' indicted by the judiciary have registered
| as candidate MEPs and have been granted immunity from prosecution, the
| Bulgarian press revealed.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/eu-elections/bulgarian-criminals-seek-shelter-mep-candidates/article-182750
Participatory regulation and anti-corruption efforts
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| Participatory regulation is arguably the best way to surface and defeat
| corruption in government and industry. Iâve highlighted a range of impressive
| efforts below. They range from Transparency Internationalâs more top-down
| survey and index approach to the bottom-up Wikileaks site where anybody can
| post documents that uncover instances of corruption.
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http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/13/participatory-regulation-and-anti-corruption-efforts/
Related:
Puppet countries leaves P membership
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| Microsoft Puppet countries are leaving the P membership. Lebanon, Turkey,
| Cyprus, and Trinidad & Tobago have already dropped out. All those countries
| voted Yes without comments to OOXML.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-59702/puppet-countries-leaves-p-membership
Microsoft influencing partner NGOs to support OOXML in India
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| Microsoft is encouraging its business partners to promote its Office Open XML
| specification (OOXML) to the Indian Bureau of Standards (BIS) and Ministry of
| IT. This move has incensed supporters of the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF)
| who fear that the "soft" Indian state may not be able to stand up to
| Microsoft pressure tactics.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/128528
Martin Bryan: we are getting âstandardization by corporationâ
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
|
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. â
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
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