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- Smartphone friendly, congressional search site unveiled
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, September 19, 2012. "The Library of Congress unveiled a new Web search tool for bills and other congressional records Wednesday that eventually will replace the 17-year-old Thomas.gov website. Congress.gov, which was launched in a beta form, will automatically adapt to fit computer, smartphone and tablet screens and will include live video streams from the House and Senate floors, according to tweets from the Library of Congress.
Added: 24 September 2012;
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- Library of Congress Website Gets an Upgrade
- by Alex Fitzpatrick. Mashable, September 20, 2012. "Ever checked out Congress.gov? It's the Library of Congress' one-stop-shop for everything citizens, journalists and researches need to know about legislation, and it just got a major overhaul. The new site has a host of improvements: it’s mobile friendly, includes an archive of debate footage as well as profiles of every member of Congress. Additionally, a new search engine drastically improves the ease of finding information about a particular bill..."
Added: 21 September 2012;
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- Welcoming the 50 States to GovTrack
- by Josh Tauberer. GovTrac, June 19, 2012. "If tracking one Congress was great, then tracking 51 of them must be even better! This week GovTrack added legislative tracking for the 50 states. You can now find: 50-State Bill Search (searching titles and summaries) State bill status, such as for Indiana SCR0005: Health Insurance Exchanges – Federal Funding (ALEC Resolution) Email updates for legislative activity on particular bills like SCR0005 or all legislative activity in a state (such as on this page for Massachusetts – look for 'Track This State'). Overview of State Tracking.."
Added: 20 June 2012;
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- Improve Public Access to Legislative Information
- by Daniel Schuman. Sunlight Foundation Blog, April 10, 2012. "Today 30 organizations from across the political spectrum joined together to ask Congress to improve public access to legislative information. Our joint letters to congressional appropriators and rulemakers urges Congress to direct that the THOMAS legislative database be published online and to establish an advisory committee on further improvements. THOMAS, Congress' legislative information website that provides basic information about legislative and congressional actions, has fallen far behind the needs of its users. Many have turned to important websites like GovTrack, OpenCongress, and WashingtonWatch to monitor congressional activities..."
Added: 11 April 2012;
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- Free Access to State Legislative Information Paves Way for Political Action
- BillTrack50 opens the door for increased government transparency and more informed voters "San Francisco (PRWEB) April 03, 2012. " the NonProfit Technology Conference 2012, LegiNation, today announced open access to the BillTrack50 database of state bills to help individuals find relevant legislation across states, get informed and take action regarding new and proposed laws that impact their personal freedoms, interests and daily life..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- Bill Track 50 - browse and track legislative information from the United States
- "We provide several simple tools to help you find, track, and share information about bills, legislators, and related information from all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. You can search for bills, read bill text, and see legislator information for free using our quick search. If you want to save queries and use our professional tools (alerts, widgets, stakeholder pages) a subscription is required... We are currently tracking 200,309 bills for the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions across the U.S. With our powerful keyword search technology and convenient alert system we can help wade through all this information and keep you up to date with what you really need to know. We carry the full details and history of each bill for your deeper analysis, and let you set alerts on legislator activities, votes, actions, and the like to keep you up to date on current bill status. With our stakeholder pages and widgets you can also share your bill sheets with clients and constituents you'd like to keep updated..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- Is the Facebook 'citizen cosponsor' app open government 2.0 or clever e-partisanship?
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.Govfresh, March 21, 2012. "Yesterday, the Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VI) launched a new Facebook application, 'Citizen Co-sponsor'..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- Regulations.gov: Remaking Public Participation
- Posted by Cass Sunstein. the White House blog, February 21, 2012. "On January 18, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13563, in which he directed regulatory agencies to base regulations on an 'open exchange of information and perspectives' and to promote public participation in Federal rulemaking. The President identified Regulations.gov as the centralized portal for timely public access to regulatory content online. In response to the President's direction, Regulations.gov has launched a major redesign, including innovative new search tools, social media connections, and better access to regulatory data. The result is a significantly improved website that will help members of the public to engage with agencies and ultimately to improve the content of rules..."
Added: 23 February 2012;
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- Regulations.gov relaunches with APIs, integrates social media, hopes for public participation
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.GovFresh, February 21, 2012. "On January 18, 2011, President Obama issued an executive order directing that regulations shall be adopted through a process that involves participation. 13 months later, the nation’s primary online regulatory website received an overdue redesign and, significantly, a commitment from the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to make regulatory data available to the public. Today, the White House announced the relaunch of Regulations.gov in a post on remaking public participation by Cass Sunstein, the administrator of the OIRA..."
Added: 23 February 2012;
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- SF Hackathon Produces Legislative Alert App Prototype
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, December 12, 2011. "Developers gathered over the weekend in San Francisco to compete in a 24-hour hackathon in an effort to build apps that benefit the community and help government agencies embrace transparency. Of the completed and nearly completed products from the event, one team developed an app prototype that would send out legislative alerts via text message. The hackathon, hosted by IT firm Granicus in partnership with CityCampSF, was a day-long event held Saturday, Dec. 10, that finished on Sunday, Dec. 11, to promote open data in government. Within the limited time frame, developers worked in teams to develop apps that help make government data more accessible..."
Added: 15 December 2011;
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- E-rulemaking gets a fresh push
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 24, 2011. "If you have been around Washington for a while, you probably noticed when the e-government agenda of the George W. Bush administration morphed into open-government initiatives under President Barack Obama. Despite some common themes, political reality has swept out the old and brought in the new. Yet if you look closely, those themes continue to intersect. E-rulemaking is a prime example. Starting in 2002, there has been a drive to put more rulemaking materials online and increase their accessibility on Regulations.gov, the central federal e-rulemaking portal. In the past three years, hubs of Gov 2.0 activity have developed to adopt new tools that encourage transparency, citizen participation and innovations in e-rulemaking..."
Added: 24 October 2011;
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- New e-rulemaking site facilitates participation
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 24, 2011. "Cynthia Farina would be the first to acknowledge that it is difficult to get members of the public engaged in a meaningful way in federal rulemaking. The topics are complex and technical, and people generally have limited time to review and analyze them... One of the lessons she has learned is that using cool new technologies is not enough to draw people to visit a website and comment on proposed rules they might have a stake in, she said. Initiatives must also be designed to target specific audiences affected by the rules, she added..."
Added: 24 October 2011;
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- Federal Agency Use of Electronic Media in the Rulemaking Process - in pdf format (3678kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania. Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States, July 17, 2011. "... In this report, I survey the landscape of agencies' contemporary efforts to use electronic media in the rulemaking process. Drawing on a review of current agency uses of the Internet, a systematic survey of regulatory agencies' websites, and interviews with managers at a variety of federal regulatory agencies, I identify both existing 'best practices' as well as opportunities for continued improvement..."
Added: 24 August 2011;
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- Could this legislation kill the Internet?
- By John Breeden II. Federal Computer Week, August 8, 2011. "I've noticed two things when studying elected officials. First, many seem to know almost nothing about technology. Second, when you say the words 'protecting children' they tend to turn their brains off and support whatever comes next. The Atlantic is up in arms over a bill before Congress, titled the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, that would require Internet service providers to capture credit card data, bank statements, IP information and search history from every user and keep it on hand for 18 months..."
Added: 9 August 2011;
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- Engaging the public in federal rulemaking, Gov 2.0-style
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, February 23, 2011. "As part of the Obama administration's emphasis on transparency and open government, there is a push to get the public more engaged in federal rulemaking activities by moving the process online..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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