Storing e-text for centuries describes the LOCKSS (for “lots of copies keep stuff safe”) project for permanent publishing on the Web, which is the brainchild of Stanford University librarian Vicky Reich and researcher David Rosenthal. From the LOCKSS website: “LOCKSS creates low-cost, persistent digital “caches” of authoritative versions of http-delivered content. The LOCKSS software enables… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Progress Report on E-Government
Special Report: E-Gov under construction “A look at three prominent programs reveals how far government has come and how far it has to go.” “When the Office of Management and Budget two years ago unveiled its e-government program, e-gov became a buzzword, and OMBs 25 high-profile projects requiring extensive collaboration among agencies became synonymous with… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Privacy Act Enforcement
Privacy Act: OMB Leadership Needed to Improve Agency Compliance. GAO-03-304, June 30. Highlights “More than one in four federal agencies, or 29 percent of those surveyed by the GAO, did not have procedures to ensure that personal data about individual Americans that they disclosed to nonfederal groups was complete, accurate, relevant and timely, as required… Continue Reading
White Paper on Internet Governance
From the US Association for Computing Machinery: CM’s Internet Governance Committee released a white paper entitled Internet Governance: A View from the Trenches, Participation Needed for Successful Advocacy in the ICANN Arena. “This paper discusses ICANN’s history, structure, and scope and focuses on the ability of ICANN to create private rules and regulations that impact… Continue Reading
