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Johann Höchtl

OMG Standard - The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website - 0 views

  • Open Municipal Geodata
  • Goals
  • To develop an open technical standard for the structuring and sharing of public geodata
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  • library of case-studies
  • broad community of citizens and government officials working to foster adoption of the standard
Johann Höchtl

Open Standards Consultation - 0 views

  • Our approach will enable the Government to work collectively together but effective open standards for software and systems are required to ensure interoperability between software systems, applications and data.
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Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Accepting his 2006 TED Prize Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design. ted cameron sinclair open source architecture
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YouTube - One Trillion Dollars Visualized from Mint.com - 1 views

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    http://www.mint.com | It's official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all. One trillion dollars is a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. So what does one trillion dollars look like?
Johann Höchtl

Postserver.at - Briefe im Internet # Anleitung - 0 views

  • Postserver.at bietet Ihnen im Moment zwei Arten der Registrierung. Die einfachste ist die Registrierung mit Ihrer bestehenden e-Mail Adresse. Diese Benutzer werden im System mit der "Vertrauensstufe Standard" vermerkt. Benötigen Sie in Ihrer Korrespondenz höchste Rechtssicherheit, sowie eine eindeutige Personen-Authentifizierung, dann müssen Sie sich mit Ihrer Bürgerkarte am Dienst anmelden bzw. falls Sie eine solche nicht haben, diese Bürgerkarte zuerst beantragen
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission outlines action plan to boost Euro... - 0 views

  • A new Single Market to deliver the benefits of the digital era
  • Improve ICT standard-setting and interoperability
  • Enhance trust and security
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  • Increase Europeans' access to fast and ultra fast internet
  • Boost cutting-edge research and innovation in ICT
  • Empower all Europeans with digital skills and accessible online services
  • Unleash the potential of ICT to benefit society
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    European digital agenda
Johann Höchtl

Online Privacy Is Poised for Regulatory Showdown - 0 views

  • privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do not track” feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites to stop surreptitiously tracking their online habits and collecting clues about age, salary, health, location and leisure activities.
  • Consumer advocates worry that the competing agendas of economic policy makers in the Obama administration, who want uniform international standards, and federal regulators, who are trying to balance consumer protection and commercial rights, will neglect the interests of people most affected by the privacy policies.
  • In the 1990s, the Commerce Department had an extremely prominent role in developing what we think of as Internet policy, and we are reinvigorating that historical role
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Anti-gay bullies are taught a lesson or two | News - 0 views

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    A secondary school in north London claims to have almost eradicated homophobic bullying after it started teaching lessons on gay history.
Johann Höchtl

When is Linked Data not Linked Data? - 0 views

  • production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain
  • Linked Data must adhere to the four principles outlined in Tim Berners Lee’s Linked Data Design Issues
  • Use URIs as names for things Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
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    Design Principles of Open Data
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Open 311 - 0 views

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    Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized technology for location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311 systems that many cities in North America offer.
Johann Höchtl

Landmark Agreements Clear Path for Government New Media - 0 views

  • For the past six months, a coalition of agencies led by GSA has been working with new media providers to develop terms of service that can be agreed to by federal agencies. The new agreements resolve any legal concerns found in many standard terms and conditions that pose problems for federal agencies, such as liability limits, endorsements, freedom of information, and governing law
  • "We need to get official information out to sites where people are already visiting and encourage them to interact with their government," says GSA Acting Administrator Paul Prouty. “Millions of Americans visit new media sites every day. The new agreements make it easier for the government to provide official information to citizens via their method of choice.”
Johann Höchtl

United Nations E-Government Development Knowledge Base: Global Reports - Global E-Gover... - 0 views

  • The 2010 United Nations e-Government Survey: Leveraging e-government at a time of financial and economic crisis was completed in December 2009 and launched in early 2010.
  • The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards.
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    Der UN-Bericht springt au die open-Welle auf: " ... free sharing of government data ... " Österreich: Platz 24(16) 2010 (2008)
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    UN E-Government Bericht druckfrisch!
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