Gobierno Electrónico (e-Gov) y Gobierno Abierto (o-Gov)

Visión de Barack Obama sobre el Gobierno Electrónico.

The White House on Wednesday rolled out a new strategy document on digital government that sets out government-wide goals and priorities for dealing with citizens online, creates a new center at the General Services Administration to encourage agencies to get onboard, and calls for new government-wide standards for IT procurement.

The Queen's Speech is closest the UK has to some kind of State of the Union address. In the speech, delivered by the Queen in all her archaic royal splendor, the government of the day sets out its legislative agenda for the coming year. Press and politicians alike analyze every line of the short speech, working out what was and was not included, and hence what will be the government's priorities for the next 12 months.

For the sake of the future of net surveillance in the UK, this was the crucial sentence in the speech Queen Elizabeth II delivered on May 9 at the Palace of Westminster:

“My government intends to bring forward measures to maintain the ability of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access vital communications data under strict safeguards to protect the public, subject to scrutiny of draft clauses.”

This refers to the draft Communications Data Bill that will be presented to Parliament. No complete draft of the legislative text exists yet, but an outline is available here. We hence know about the crucial provisions, and a debate about these has been raging for the past few months.

The bill is likely to propose that the quantity and scope of the data that UK based communication service providers (CSPs) are required to retain on their customers' Internet use must be considerably increased. Importantly, third party data – customers' use of Gmail for example, even if BT or Virgin is their CSP – is to be included in the data that has to be retained.

This poses two major problems. The first is...

El 17 de mayo la Presidenta argentina será premiada por la organización del Plan Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, desarrollado por el Poder Ejecutivo y...

En Mercedes (Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina) conectan ambulancias via notebook, con la historia clinica de los pacientes.

Ushahidi's director of crisis mapping, Patrick Meier, and Meta-Activism Project founder Mary Joyce are collaborating on a project to update and add to Gene Sharp's 198 "Methods of Nonviolent Action," a manual for civil resistance, with ways these techniques could be adjusted for the 21st century. Together with other contributors, they're managing a spreadsheet in Google Docs with each of 198 methods from the pioneering researcher in protest and activism. For each — and a few new ones added on — they're listing ways the traditional method could be tweaked to take advantage of new technology, and ways that those methods could be completely reinvented.

For example, Joyce updated Sharp's method number 175 — "overloading of facilities" — to suggest that a distributed denial of service attack is an equivalent action for the Internet age. In a "DDoS" attack, so much Internet traffic is directed at a given site that it is unable to handle the load and either performs poorly for visitors or can't be viewed at all.

The spreadsheet is open to anyone for editing and review.

Leo en Techpresident que mañana la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones de los EEUU votará sobre la posibilidad de exigir a los medios de comunicación que publiquen de forma transparente su listado de sus anuncios de tipo polìtico, quén los pagó y cuánto. La información debería ser publicada en internet.

President Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its campaign "dashboard" Wednesday with a renewed focus on metrics and team-building that the campaign clearly hopes will enable it to better manage its massive base of volunteers and field organizers in what is expected to be a closely-contested presidential election.

The Obama campaign is "poised" to unleash Dashboard, the campaign tool we've been hearing about in pieces here and there since November 2011, the Guardian's Ed Pilkington and Amanda Michel write.

Here's the bottom line:

The hope is that it will become the election equivalent of the Facebook games CityVille and FarmVille, where online participants are pitted against their social networks to run a city or manage a farm. In this case, Dashboard's creators hope to bring the power of the social networking right to the doorstep of the American voter.

Staffers in key districts of vital swing states will be able to instantly access data on people in their locality who have subscribed to myBarackObama.com's e-mail list and might be willing to volunteer their time. In past elections, local staff and activists couldn't easily piggyback off the campaign's internet operation, and relied primarily on their own contacts and local knowledge about who to approach.

We've known for a while that the Obama campaign was planning to do a better-than-ever job of tracking everything volunteers and staff do, use the numbers to motivate more activity, and

As Vladimir Putin embarks on his third presidential term, the inevitable question must be how long he will be able to use old techniques, political technologies, to keep the lid on the pressure cooker of discontent. In the new situation the political and economic cost to Putin of continued repression is considerably higher, but, most importantly, the Grand Illusion, which kept the ratings high, is now over, says Andrew Wilson

Steven Clift of E-democracy.org has for years been running projects to build online forums and email lists.

Through 2010 and 2011, Clift and others ran a pilot project to build up such online communities in neighborhoods in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. They recently finished a report evaluating this project, and have it online. The forums were targeted specifically to high-immigrant, low-income, racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Minnesota — the kind of place that past survey data on the digital divide between rich and poor indicates might not be so receptive.

The report looks at two online forums, funded by...

The Open Knowledge Foundation recently announced that it will organize and coordinate an Open Data Census. The intent is to create a basic baseline against which governments can measured around how much (and how relevant) their open data is.

If nothing else the census will be useful is forcing governments to...

Computer science researcher Daniel Gayo-Avello writes in recently published research that many previous studies of Twitter's predictive power for elections have been "greatly exaggerated."

Technology Review points us to Avello's recent work, a survey of studies on Twitter statistics' correlation with election data. The researcher, at the University of Oviedo in Spain, writes:

... most of the authors seem to be more interested in claiming positive results than in providing sound and reproducible methods. It is also especially worrisome that many recent papers seem to only acknowledge those studies supporting the idea of Twitter predicting elections, instead of conducting a balanced literature review showing both sides of the matter. After reading many of such papers I have decided to write such a survey myself. Hence, in this paper, every study relevant to the matter of electoral prediction using social media is commented. From this review it can be concluded that the predictive power of Twitter regarding elections has been greatly exaggerated, and that hard research problems still lie ahead.

We vented about this in January, when Micah Sifry pointed out that the rising and falling of mention and follower counts are indicators of interest, not popularity.

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