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Die Zeit des statischen Internets ist abgelaufen. Auch im E-Government. Es wird verstärkt auf Web 2.0 Technologien gesetzt. Wie aber eine kommunale »Web 2.0 E-Government Plattform« rechtskonform gestaltet werden kann, ist derzeit noch weitgehend ungeklärt. Hier setzt die Darstellung an. Der Autor erläutert die Grundlagen sowohl des »E-Government« als auch des »Web 2.0«. Anhand einer Musterkonfiguration analysiert er alle wesentlichen Planungs-, Aufbau- und Betriebsphasen einer solchen Plattform in rechtlicher Hinsicht. Hierbei geht der Verfasser nicht nur intensiv auf vergaberechtliche Fragestellungen und Implikationen in der Beschaffungsphase, sondern auch auf gestalterische Notwendigkeiten (Stichwort: Barrierefreiheit) ein. Im Anschluss untersucht er anhand von Beispielen die Verantwortung der Plattformbetreiber in der Praxis und berücksichtigt die besonderen Probleme der Öffentlichen Hand. Der Leser erhält auf die Öffentliche Hand zugeschnittene Strategien zur Haftungsvermeidung. Schließlich widmet sich die Arbeit dem Konkurrenzverhältnis der Öffentlichen Hand als Betreiberin einer Web 2.0 Plattform zu privaten Plattformanbietern und dem Marktumfeld Web 2.0. Der Verfasser verfolgt konsequent zwei Ziele: Zum einen werden die im Zusammenhang mit der Umsetzung einer Web 2.0 E-Government Plattform auftretenden Rechtsfragen wissenschaftlich fundiert geklärt. Zum anderen sind die gefundenen Ergebnisse so aufbereitet, dass sie auch für die Praxis dienlich sind.

The Oakland Police Department oversaw the use of excessive force against Occupy Oakland demonstrators, and now the department is refusing to hand over information about what really happened. The ACLU of Northern California and the National Lawyers' Guild sent a public records request about OPD's use of force on the night of October 25, 2011 on demonstrators supporting Occupy Oakland. The response we received is both infuriating and misguided.

(interview with a Swiss banker  done in Mosсow 30.05.2011)  Q: Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business?A: I have worked for Swiss banks for many years. I was designated as one of the top directors of one of the biggest Swiss banks. During my work I was involved in the payment, in the direct payment in cash to a person who killed the president of a foreign country. I was in the meeting where it was decided to give this cash money to the killer. This gave me dramatic headaches and troubled my conscience. It was not the only case that was really bad but it was the worst. It was a payment instruction on order of a foreign secret service written by hand giving the order to pay a certain amount to a person who killed the top leader of a foreign country. And it was not the only case. We received several such hand written letters coming from foreign secret services giving the order to payout cash from secret accounts to fund revolutions or for the killing of people. I can confirm what John Perkins has written in his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". There really exists just a system and Swiss banks are involved in such cases.

Economic meltdown, pro-democracy revolts, protest camps - it's kicking off everywhere. But was all this catalysed by new social media and technologies as many claimed? Paul Mason, a BBC correspondent who witnessed much of the unrest at first-hand, tells Liz Else that it's a lot subtler than that

What amazes me most whenever I write about this topic is recalling how terribly upset so many Democrats pretended to be when Bush claimed the power merely to detain or even just eavesdrop on American citizens without due process.  Remember all that?  Yet now, here's Obama claiming the power not to detain or eavesdrop on citizens without due process, but to kill them; marvel at how the hardest-core White House loyalists now celebrate this and uncritically accept the same justifying rationale used by Bush/Cheney (this is war! the President says he was a Terrorist!) without even a moment of acknowledgment of the profound inconsistency or the deeply troubling implications of having a President - even Barack Obama - vested with the power to target U.S. citizens for murder with no due process. Also, during the Bush years, civil libertarians who tried to convince conservatives to oppose that administration's radical excesses would often ask things like this: would you be comfortable having Hillary Clinton wield the power to spy on your calls or imprison you with no judicial reivew or oversight?  So for you good progressives out there justifying this, I would ask this:  how would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you in the hands of, say, Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?

One of the U.S. Geological Survey's unique responsibilities is the monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, which affect the daily lives of people around the world. By mining real-time tweets, the USGS expands its suite of seismically derived information and obtains first-hand accounts of shaking seconds after an earthquake occurs.

Deutschland ist beim Thema "open government data", also beim öffentlich zugänglich machen von Daten aus Regierung und Verwaltung weit abgeschlagen - das muss sich ändern! Das Potential und der gesellschaftliche Nutzen von "offenen Regierungsdaten" liegt auf der Hand:

For thirty years, now, Republicans have been yammering about small government, deficits, the glories of the free market, and the incompetence and wastefulness of government. It's all been a big lie, part of a well funded and cleverly executed coup d'etat, designed to enable the ultra rich and corporations to literally take power out of the hands of government and money out of the pockets of individual citizens.

America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich. Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have more loot, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true.

The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy -- that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of a mass of Americans and accelerates it into the hands of the few. Let me give you some examples.

I do not doubt that companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google rely more on data every day. But the best human curators still maintain their supremacy. Data may help, but what may matter more is a sense of what appeals to the hearts of obsessive people, and who can deliver that. And what that suggests is that competition will remain possible for companies that aren't Amazon or Netflix, without massive piles of data on hand.

Alter (2006) aber ausgezeichneter Artikel zum Thema Kollektive Intelligenz - Potentiale und Grenzen. Mit einigen sehr guten Beispielen.