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BE: Minister: "Open source prevents monopolies, increases innovation"
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| "Open source prevents monopolies, helps to
| share knowledge and increases social
| innovation", says Vincent Van Quickenborne,
| Belgium's minister for the Simplification of
| the Administration. He expects that public
| administrations will increasingly turn to
| this type of software, in part because it
| helps to cut costs.
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| With his talk, minister Van Quickenborne
| opened a workshop on free software for public
| administrations, organised by the ministry of
| Economics in Brussels, on Friday 12 March.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/be-minister-open-source-prevents-monopolies-increases-innovation
Government Agencies Have a Way to Go on Open Government
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| It's only appropriate then, that during
| Sunshine Week, the National Security Archive
| would check on how various agencies have
| responded to Freedom of Information Act
| requests in the last year. Sunshine Week,
| according to the organization's Web site, is
| a national initiative established to focus on
| the importance of open government and the
| freedom of information.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/government-agencies-have-a-way-to-go-on-open-government/?cs=40099
PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
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| One year into its promise of greater
| government transparency, the Obama
| administration is more often citing
| exceptions to the nation's open records law
| to withhold federal records even as the
| number of requests for information declines,
| according to a review by The Associated Press
| of agency audits about the Freedom of
| Information Act.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hI24fNqhDbP2mY1wZyUBRJRa_UqAD9EFTOD00
Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine... And Fighting It
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| Indeed, as ABC's Nightline revealed much
| later, both Negroponte and National Security
| Agency Director Michael Hayden pressured the
| LA Times to kill the story. And when Klein
| told his story to CBS's 60 Minutes, they too
| eventually killed the story without
| explanation.
|
| In the end, of course, Klein's evidence
| became the backbone of EFF's lawsuit against
| AT&T for their complicity in illegal
| government spying. Originally ignored by
| Senators and newspapers alike, his evidence
| was ultimately so damning that it could only
| be defeated by an unprecedented "telco
| immunity" law pushed by the Bush White House
| and passed by the US Congress amidst a
| massive public controversy. EFF then relied
| on Klein's evidence for a case against the
| government, which has been met with fierce
| resistance by the Obama Administration.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/wiring-big-brother-machine
Recent:
More than 100 candidates to Italian regional elections support Free Software
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| At least on paper, thanks to CaroCandidato,
| Free Software may have a voice this year in
| many of the regional councils assisting the
| governors. As of March 17th, the 2010
| edition of the campaign has already
| enlisted more than 100 candidates from all
| parties. Citizens visiting the website can
| easily find, sorted by party or electoral
| district, which regional candidates have
| signed the Pact for these elections.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/124
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