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Tories' cash incentives for localised planning
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| Their policy paper Open Source Planning
| said the proposals would restore democracy
| to planning while the incentives would
| prevent it being captured by ânimbysâ, the
| party said.
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http://www.lgcplus.com/news/planning-and-housing/tories-cash-incentives-for-localised-planning/5011773.article
Tories unveil planning green paper
http://www.planningresource.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Policy/login/985552/
Tories would let councils set their own design standards
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| Proposals to fast track schemes that do not
| attract objection from local people are
| also included in the partyâs long-awaited
| planning green paper, Open Source,
| published today (Monday).
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http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3158608&channel=783&c=1
US government to revamp acquisition and procurement systems
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| The US General Services Administration
| (GSA) has unveiled details of a $74m
| programme to modernise the system that
| federal agencies and their suppliers use to
| source equipment, supplies, information
| technology (IT) and telecommunications
| services.
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http://www.procurementleaders.com/news/latestnews/0803-us-gov-ibm-technology/
Hearst Expands Local Sports Coverage With Open-Source 'Bleacher Report'
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| From the vantage of Bleacher Report's
| partners, the open-source model seems to be
| something of a hit.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/new_media/hearst_expands_local_sports_coverage_with_opensource_bleacher_report_152931.asp
Opera launches open source project Dragonfly for business
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| Opera has announced that Opera Dragonfly a
| fully open source project, is now hosted on
| BitBucket. Since the inception of Opera
| Dragonfly, Opera had planned for it to
| become an open source project. It has
| always been released under an open source
| BSD licence, but the source repositories
| were on Opera servers.
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http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Opera_launches_open_source_project_Dragonfly_for_business-nid-65649.html
Recent:
Cameron: Give the UK's health records to Google
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| David Cameron has repeated his pledge to cancel the ContactPoint database and
| the ID card scheme if the Tories win the next election.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/cameron_health_records/
Secret files on protesters given to desal consortium
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| SECRET police files on people protesting
| against Victoria's $3.5 billion desalination
| project are being made available to the
| private consortium building the plant.
|
| Under a deal struck by the State Government
| in a bid to ensure the project is finished
| before Melbourne runs out of water, Victoria
| Police has agreed to hand over photos, video
| recordings and other police records to the
| international consortium AquaSure to help it
| ''manage'' protests and potential security
| threats.
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http://www.theage.com.au/national/secret-files-on-protesters-given-to-desal-consortium-20091204-kb29.html
Tory donors offered meetings with comms chiefs Steve
Hilton and Andy Coulson
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| A leaked email details how the party has begun
| offering wealthy backers the chance to attend
| 'private presentations' in Conservative
| Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) with key figures
| including director of communications Andy
| Coulson and director of strategy Steve Hilton.
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http://www.prweek.com/news/bulletin/UKDaily/article/971392/?DCMP=EMC-UKDaily
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