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180 Degrees description retired Identify attendees of influential hearings and events. Ad Hawk mobile description retired Identify political TV and radio ads. Call on Congress description retired Toll-free service to learn about and call Congress. Capitol Words description Explore and compare what Congress says. Checking Influence description retired See the political activity behind your everyday spending. Churnalism US description retired Detect similarities between articles, press releases and more.

LAPSI | The European Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information CQ Roll Call Site Will Help Users Contact Legislators There are Web sites that cover the actions and inactions of Congress. And there are Web sites that let voters contact their members of Congress and comment. CQ Roll Call wants to bridge the two. This week, the media company is revamping one of its Web sites, Congress.org, with an eye toward what one of its executives, Peter Anthony, calls “informed action.” “If I’m reading an article on Congress.org about an issue that’s important to me, I can very quickly contact my member of Congress and let them know how I feel about a specific issue,” said Mr. In the past, Congress.org, a consumer-friendly version of the professional-grade Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call Web sites, has lacked up-to-date information on the bills being taken up by legislators. The company signed up an initial sponsor for the renewed site, the American Beverage Association, and will seek other sponsors in the future.

Microsoft Windows Azure se dote de deux nouveaux kits Disponible via le cloud, Microsoft Windows Azure est un PaaS (Platform-as-a Service). Il répond à une demande croissante ce de type de plate-forme de développement autour de laquelle gravite un véritable écosystème avec un langage propre, des outils dédiés au développement et des modules. Microsoft annonce ainsi deux nouveaux modules : PRESTO et OGDI. Plus d’un milliard de documents sont échangés entre administrations chaque année. Fort de ce constat, la DGME (Direction Générale pour la Modernisation de l’Etat) s’est lancée dans un chantier collaboratif avec pour objectif la normalisation d’une enveloppe technique d’échange de données. PRESTO a été définie en conformité avec les exigences d’ouverture, d’interopérabilité et de modularité avec comme fil rouge le respect des standards internationaux. C’est le 13 septembre 2006 que PRESTO 1 a été publié sur la base des services Web.

How to Ask Candidates Questions that Make a Difference by Fran Korten Tips for spreading your ideas without getting the runaround. posted Feb 24, 2012 The Occupy movement has changed the political conversation. But will it make a difference in what politicians actually do? Our political discourse now regularly includes references to inequality, corporate power, and Wall Street excess. So when candidates show up at political and professional meetings, hold fundraisers, or are on the radio, we can ask questions that put forward policy ideas. These opportunities only work well if we craft our question carefully. Here are some dos and don’ts for asking questions that can help us all take advantage of this political moment. Ask your question in a way that can be heard Sound reasonable. Use your question to move an idea forward Put forward an idea rather than asking a general question. The dos and don’ts in action Now let me apply these dos and don’ts to a few fresh ideas. Now it’s your turn. Fran Korten wrote this article for YES! Interested?

Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)—Microsoft Government Cloud computing for government Government IT at its best: Cloud computing provides solutions for government. Help improve reliability and help save money by integrating hosted services into your IT strategy. Cloud Application Center Discover cloud computing government solutions and public sector software to get your agency in the cloud quickly. Government 2.0 Open government, also known as open gov or gov 2.0, can help transform government. Telework solutions for government Microsoft in e-government: Telework has become an attractive and practical alternative. Unified communications for your agency Microsoft government solutions can help agencies streamline and unify internal and external communications.

GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress Drupal + OGDI = Open Data goodness! | Port 25 Case Studies Fusionex Read about how Fusionex, a provider of business intelligence solutions, leveraged Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Hadoop to help a customer better analyze its data, cut reporting its time from three months to less than 30 minutes, and reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent. Mind Palette Learn how Japanese app maker Mind Palette cut database costs by 20 percent and received improved technical support by migrating its Linux servers from Amazon Web Services to Windows Azure. Equifax Discover how financial services firm Equifax is reacting faster and slashing IT costs with a Microsoft hybrid cloud solution + SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. City of Barcelona Learn how the City of Barcelona is improving the lives of its citizens and creating a Smart-city plan with its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Hadoop Big Data solution. Teletica Silverstripe Discover how SilverStripe, an open source content management system, grew by working with Microsoft. DreamFactory Software

Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) est une association à but non lucratif dont la finalité est de proposer une solution alternative légale aux personnes souhaitant libérer leurs œuvres des droits de propriété intellectuelle standard de leur pays, jugés trop restrictifs[1]. L’organisation a créé plusieurs licences, connues sous le nom de licences Creative Commons. Ces licences, selon leur choix, ne protègent aucun ou seulement quelques droits relatifs aux œuvres. Le droit d'auteur (ou « copyright » dans les pays du Commonwealth et aux États-Unis) est plus restrictif. Licences[modifier | modifier le code] Six possibilités existent, combinaisons de quatre pôles définissant les différents usages[2] : Exemple de combinaison : Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, qui est la licence Attribution-Non Commercial-Partage à l'identique. Adaptation aux législations[modifier | modifier le code] Le CRID a adapté les licences dans le droit belge, ces licences belges existent en français, néerlandais et anglais.

Open Database License Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Une licence orientée bases de données[modifier | modifier le code] La licence Open Database permet à chacun d’exploiter publiquement, commercialement ou non, des bases de données; à condition néanmoins de maintenir la licence sur la base de données, et éventuellement, sur les modifications qui y sont apportées, et de mentionner expressément l’usage, s’il génère des créations à partir de celles‐ci. ODbL est une licence libre au sens de la Free Software Foundation [3]. Utilisations[modifier | modifier le code] La licence Open Database est utilisée pour les données du projet OpenStreetMap[4].Le 14 décembre 2010, le Conseil de la Ville de Paris a annoncé qu'il publiera les données de l'administration parisienne sous Licence Open Database[5]. Spécificités liées aux droits des bases de données[modifier | modifier le code] Le droit relatif aux bases de données est complexe. Références[modifier | modifier le code]

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