[e-gov] E-Gov News 6-6-2007
- From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "e-gov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <e-gov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:22:47 -0400
- New facilities to house temporary e-records
- GovITwiki
- Freedom of Information Filer and Archive
Patrice McDermott, Director
OpenTheGovernment.org
www.openthegovernment.org
202.332.OPEN (6736)
- New facilities to house temporary e-records
BY Ben Bain
June 5, 2007
The National Archives and Record Administration has announced that it has
opened two new records vaults that will allow federal agencies for the first
time to store and maintain their temporary electronic documents. NARA said
the facilities will allow agencies to securely store electronic documentation
throughout its life cycle. The state-of-the-art Washington National Records
Center vault also has a new-media disintegrator to destroy the electronic
documents when their retention time runs out. more [FCW]
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- GovITwiki
A Community Reference Resource for Government Information Technology attempting
to track all types of information technology and computer spending by the
government. (Mostly U.S. focused at the moment, but it does have some
international data. Includes individual agency details on computers, hardware,
software, applications, network equipment, upgrade paths, preferences,
procurement cycles and more. Also covers security issues and presidential
initiatives such as management agendas and OMB or CIO architecture
requirements. more [via FGI]
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- Freedom of Information Filer and Archive (UK)
mySociety is building a website to help people make Freedom of Information
requests from different parts of government. It will then archive the responses
on the web.
There has been discussion of doing a comparable project in the US for federal
FOIAs and WikiFOIA is up and running ("A primary goal of this Wiki is to build
a comprehensive and collaborative How To Guide to provide very practical
information about open records requests at the state and local level.")
Links: WikiFOIA
mySociety
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