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Article | 17/01/2013 German government should make its software available as open source, committee advises
Germany should change a law to enable public administrations to make their software available as free and open source, a German parliamentary committe...
Article | 10/12/2012 Italian party uses Internet to select parliamentary candidates
Italy's innovative 5-Star Movement last week organized an online vote to choose its candidates for next year's national election in what it said was t...
Article | 22/10/2012 Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams
Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for ...
Article | 4/08/2011 Steven VanRoekel will succeed Kundra as US CIO
Steven VanRoekel, formerly managing director at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, will succeed Vivek Kundra as the Chief Information Officer...
Article | 23/06/2011 India has issued 9.5 million digital identity numbers
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of t...
Article | 17/05/2011 Twitter users track power outages in India
Electric power cuts in India are frequent and all over the country. But information on the extent of the problem has been largely anecdotal.
Article | 30/03/2011 Group protests proposed cuts in e-gov't transparency efforts
A U.S. government budget for 2011 being considered in Congress would make huge cuts to the budget for President Barack Obama's transparency programs, ...
Article | 4/03/2011 IBM uses mobile web to aid illiterate job-hunters
IBM is deploying its voice-based web technology in India to enable illiterate people in the state of Karnataka to find jobs by talking on their mobile...
Article | 19/02/2011 Technology takes a place in Uganda elections
Technology has taken a central role in Uganda’s electoral process, with SMS campaigns, websites, so-called robocalls, and even a presidential rap on Y...
Article | 2/02/2011 Competition aims to make cybergeeks cool
A new cybersecurity competition for high school students aims to make cybergeeks as cool as sports stars, in addition to identifying a new generation ...
Article | 26/01/2011 NYC installs virtual suggestion box
New York City is harnessing the power of employee-based collaborative filtering to solicit new ways to save money and improve city government.
Article | 7/10/2010 Tech CEOs tell US gov't how to cut $1 trillion from deficit
The U.S. government can save more than $US1 trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and moving...
Article | 1/05/2010 IBM pushes industry framework for 'smarter' government
A full year into its 'smarter planet' initiative, IT behemoth IBM is now pushing nations to adopt its government industry framework, which seeks to tr...
Article | 16/09/2009 'Government cloud' coming from Google next year
Google will offer cloud-computing services designed specifically for U.S. government agencies starting next year, the company announced Tuesday at NAS...

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