Category Archives: USA

Link: EGov IG at W3C

Came across this lot yesterday. Many of the usual suspects involved (eg Debategraph), and some interesting ideas floating around about  bypassing representative democracy altogether, but there are RSS feeds and a mailing list which will now be tracking. W3C eGovernnment … Continue reading

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Yaawwn

Diebold Admits Voting Machine Flaw – Business Center – PC World Machine lost votes, and didnt record the loss on the audit trail. The story just keeps building (tags: 2009 usa security edemocracy audit)

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Story: How even the best e-participation intentions can go astray

There’s a story over at Intellics highlighting then risks incurred by the Obama government of “pseudo-dialogue” and “pseudo-civic engagement” and the need for some sort of quality assurance guidelines for the public participation efforts that the new administration is bound … Continue reading

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ReadWriteWeb

I caught up with ReadWriteWeb yesterday. Tons of useful and/or interesting stuff, including: Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web – ReadWriteWeb Google researchers caution that the expansion of the social Web and our growing involvement with it … Continue reading

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Links: (non)evalution of Security Policies + crowdsourced policy formation Obama style

Companies not evaluating IT security policies efficiently – SC Magazine UK Companies do not evaluate the effectiveness of their security policies. The results of a recent survey from dns and PwC has shown that almost 30 per cent of companies … Continue reading

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