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A MyGov dashboard that allows every citizen to personalise the explosive growth of government services on the web was proposed today by Gordon Brown.

Brown said MyGov, which will eventually replace DirectGov, will end the current frustration of web users needing to identify themselves separately for different public services. He also said the dashboard will allow the citizen to manage their pensions, tax credits and child benefits, as well as pay council tax, fix doctors or hospital appointments, apply for schools of their choice and communicate with children's teachers.

Replace identifiers with URIs. Remove any requirement for global consistency. Put in a significant effort into getting critical mass. Sit back.

The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation to overhaul the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a reform effort more than half a decade in the making that aims to improve the quality of patents and curb frivolous litigation.

Excluded from the bill was a controversial amendment, backed by many tech companies, that would have eased the process for initiating an in-house administrative review process at the Patent Office for challenges to patents that have been granted, a measure billed as a less costly alternative to private litigation.

The Senate bill would transition the Patent Office to a so-called first-to-file system, bringing the U.S. system in line with the patent regimes of much of the rest of the world. The shift would confer patent rights on the first inventor or company to file an application, rather than the current first-to-invent system

In this tutorial we will build a tile cache of the Massachusetts data we loaded in Part 1 and then render it in OpenLayers.

Home From IMMI Jump to: navigation, search The International Modern Media Institute is working towards rethinking media regulation for the digital age.

The Icelandic Parliament unanimously agreed to task the government with implementing the protections we proposed, and this work is now in progress.

European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year

We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.

It should come as no surprise to readers of Datablog that, as editor Simon Rogers puts it himself, "we are drowning in data." We suddenly find ourselves with unprecedented access to torrents of data that could be used to better society.

To help bridge the gap between socially minded organizations and do-good dataists, we started a project temporarily dubbed "Data Without Borders".

In the period starting with the close of WWII to the late 70s, the U.S. government created ideal economic conditions for technology innovation and commercialization to thrive in Silicon Valley.