Dear D.C. commuter….you think you have it bad? Be thankful that you’re not living in Los Angeles this weekend. In an effort to widen the 405, Los Angeles will be shutting down an 11 mile stretch of the road to widen a bridge from four lanes to six lanes, as part of a $1 billionRead… Read more »
Ed Walters, Esq., of FastCase has posted Tear Down This (Pay)Wall: The End of Private Copyright in Public Statutes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Walters describes the extent to which U.S. state governments and for-profit legal publishers assert copyright in U.S.Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Why, Yes, We Do Have a Web Site for That. As one of his parting gifts, Vivek Kundra has given Americans a complete listing of all 1,759 federal government Web sites, including the site detailing the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov, which is pronounced pretty much exactly as it’s spelled. Listen. Is ItRead… Read more »
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) is outfitting another 341 buses with security cameras. Eight-five buses are already equipped with surveillance, and the authority will decide shortly whether to install cameras on another 1,100 vehicles. The cameras will store images for a month but will not feed information to New York City Transit’s command center inRead… Read more »
Here are five quick tips on how to manage your social graph as a public servant: 1. Pro-actively disclose Generally speaking it is good practice to tell your employer (or prospective employer) of any activity that is at the periphery of but related to your official activities. For public servants I think that runs theRead… Read more »
Posted by openkent on July 13, 2011 With the constraints we face, councils need to explore more agile and efficient ways of developing and making use of technology. At the same time, there is a massive opportunity to open up the development of ideas and solutions to people who have ideas and skills in howRead… Read more »
Today DoD released its new Strategy for Operations in Cyberspace. We have all seen parts of this before, the DoD has done a great job of providing their intention via the speeches and testimony of senior leaders as well as articles published in leading journals. So those who track cyber security strategy will find fewRead… Read more »
Note: The following piece from the Pentagon’s news service is being provided as a service to our readers, most of whom track this type of information very closely. Lynn: Cyber Strategy’s Thrust is Defensive By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 14, 2011 – In March, a cyber attack on a defense company’sRead… Read more »
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted slides of a presentation entitled The MetaLex Document Server: Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data. The slides describe an approach in which regulations from the Wetten.nl site were processed to enable improved public access, re-use, and inclusion of data in theRead… Read more »
The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit the Sprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. So I have this friend who is always losing their cell phone. You may know this kind of person. You may be this person. For many ofRead… Read more »