The Geospace Research Portal
http://www.gisdevelopment.net
GIS Development strives to promote and propagate the usage of geospatial technologies in various areas of development for the community at large. Through its activities, it assists community and government in developing their capabilities, and policies and facilitate knowledge transfer to grassroots and strengthen the productivity and management capabilities. It encourages the exchange of scientific know-how through its three key platforms. It brings out an internationally acclaimed monthly science magazine publication GIS@development, which is in its 8th year of global circulation. It holds the world’s largest geospatial technical resource portal www.GISdevelopment.net. It organizes the annual international conferences and exhibitions of Map Asia (www.mapasia.org) and Map India (www.mapindia.org).
OVERVIEW: Strategic e-Government Procurement
http://www.mdb-egp.org/data/docs/overview.pdf
Description: This joint publication by the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank is targeted at executives and explains why electronic government procurement should be in the vanguard of national strategies for e-government and e-commerce. E-government procurement has a catalytic effect giving it strategic significance. However, its implementation is often misunderstood and the seeds of failure often sown with presumptions about the relative roles of technology, management and culture. This paper highlights some of the key issues based on experience both in the public and private sectors.
REPORT: Federal Agencies Have Made Progress Implementing the e-Government Act of 2002 (Dec. 2004)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0512.pdf
Description: An extensive report praised the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the positive steps it has taken toward the implementation of e-government. The report noted that progress had been achieved on initiatives such as the FirstGov portal, electronic signatures, and the posting of federal court information on the web. However, it criticized the OMB’s failure to develop a database and website containing information about federally funded research and development. The report also recommended that the OMB carry out a study on the use of e-government for crisis preparation, as well as set up an innovation program to encourage IT suppliers to devise technologies and services to enhance e-government programs.
Pew Survey on Future of Internet and Google’s Window to the Past
Technology experts and scholars foresee a bigger role for the internet in people’s personal and work lives in the next decade:
«The Future of the Internet: A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as the internet becomes more embedded in everyday and commercial life. They believe the dawning of the blog era will bring radical change to the news and publishing industry and they think the internet will have the least impact on religious institutions.» View PDF of Report and View PDF of Questionnaire
Elon University/Pew Internet Predictions Database, which «examines the potential future of the Internet while simultaneously providing a peek back into its history…» and from Google, this announcement that the company has «fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account.»
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