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eGov Activity superseded by Data Activity

January 9, 2014

In December 2013 the eGov Activity was subsumed by the
W3C Data Activity. That activity has a larger scope encompassing eGovernment, open data and more.

This page was frozen on 9th January 2014

Posted by: J. Alan Bird at 6:38 pm categories: General
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Draft Roadmap for W3C EGOV Interest Group

June 26, 2012

In order to fulfill the mission of the group “to build and strengthen the community of people who use or promote the use of W3C technologies to improve Government” and to facilitate its efforts to “identify and discuss essential areas of technology and related policy issues”, we put forward a draft roadmap to organize and guide our discussions. We welcome feedback and comments from all members on this draft. Please feel free to edit the wiki directly or send comments to the list, or to the chairs, Tomasz or Jeanne.

Posted by: Tomasz Janowski at 12:51 am categories: Uncategorized
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Atlantic and Eurasian eGov Meetings

March 19, 2012

One challenge for a global group like the eGovernment Interest Group is time zones. There is no time we can have a meeting that is not the middle of the night for someone who wants to participate. At this point, we are going to try having two regular meeting times, like this:

Atlantic Meetings will start at one of these times, and run about 90 minutes:

  1. 7am Los Angeles, 10am Washington, 3pm London, 4pm Brussels, Other Cities
  2. 8am Los Angeles, 11am Washington, 4pm London, 5pm Brussels, Other Cities
  3. 9am Los Angeles, Noon Washington, 5pm London, 6pm Brussels, Other Cities

If you would like to attend these meetings, please answer the eGov Atlantic Meeting Times poll. (Before filling out the poll, be sure the times are being displayed for your time zone.)

Eurasian Meetings will start at one of these times, and run about 90 minutes:

  1. 7am London, 8am Brussels, 2pm Beijing, 4pm Canberra, Other Cities
  2. 8am London, 9am Brussels, 3pm Beijing, 5pm Canberra, Other Cities
  3. 9am London, 10am Brussels, 4pm Beijing, 6pm Canberra, Other Cities

If you would like to attend these meetings, please answer the eGov Eurasian Meeting Times poll. (Before filling out the poll, be sure the times are being displayed for your time zone.)

Note that daylight saving time changes these relative times. The times given above are for the northern hemisphere summer. Right now, in mid-March, with the continental US having started DST before the rest of the hemisphere, we are during one of the periods when the relative times are not in the above configuration. These variations will be handled, going forward, by considering the Atlantic meeting time fixed to Los Angeles local time and the Eurasian meeting time fixed to London local time. To see the meeting time in your city on a particular date, use the “Other Cities” link, select “Modify Calculation”, and change the date.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 2:11 pm categories: Uncategorized
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New eGovernment Groups Proposal

April 21, 2011

Earlier this month, the W3C staff proposed that the eGovernment Interest Group be re-chartered and a new Working Group be formed to create W3C Recommendations for Government Linked Data (GLD).
For more details, see the Activity Proposal. Members of the W3C Advisory Committee are encouraged to provide feedback before 29 April using WBS.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 3:36 pm categories: Events
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eGov at W3C Technical Plenary Week (TPAC)

November 17, 2010

Two weeks ago, we held a series of discussions of eGovernment topics at the W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting (TPAC) in Lyon, France.

The first day consisted of a broad ranging discussion across eGovernment issues, lent some shape by presentations from W3C staff members. Some of the topics provoking the most discussion were licensing, privacy, open government data, identity, and eGov outreach.

The second day was focused on Government Linked Data (GLD). In the morning, thanks to the presence of key participants in these efforts, we had presentations on GLD efforts in the UK, Spain, France, and Germany. In the afternoon, we worked through a list of possible work items for a proposed W3C Working Group in this area. That work should emerge as a draft charter in the coming weeks.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 7:29 pm categories: Events, IG, Linked Data
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Government Linked Data at ICT 2010

September 30, 2010

One of the highlight’s of this year’s ICT 2010 event in Brussels was a Government Linked Data session: The European Commission’s Stefano Bertolo counted about 140 people in the room.

For more information about the session and its outcomes, take a look at the presentations, or contact W3C’s Ivan Herman.

For additional coverage, see: EPSIplatform, Euroalert

Posted by: at 4:09 pm categories: Events, General, Linked Data
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Open Data Legislation

April 26, 2010

On Wednesday, 28 April, 9am Boston / 2pm London (see in other time zones), the W3C eGov Interest Group will host a presentation of draft legislation in New York State which would require “state agencies to make all public records, with certain exceptions, available on a single … web portal, without any fees or license or registration requirements.” [1]
Our presenter will be Paul Curtis, from the office of Assembley Member Micah Kellner, who introduced the legislation. Following the discussion, we’ll have an open discussion of this and related topics.

IG member, feel free to edit this wiki page to fill in related links,
question, etc: http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Open_Government_Laws.

To join for audio: +1.617.761.6200, +33.4.89.06.34.99 or +44.117.370.6152

  • Conference Code: 3468 (“EGOV”), more instructions
  • Please press “61#” to mute your line, “60#” to unmute.

To join for text chat:

This is one of our new seminar-style Interest Group meetings: it will be
open the public, and we’ll start with the presentation, for up to an
hour. Afterword, we’ll switch to more of a business-meeting mode, with
our usual discussions about projects, planning, etc. Members of the
public are welcome to stay and listen for that part.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 8:54 pm categories: Events
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Linked Data API at Public Meeting

April 12, 2010

This week (9am ET Wed; see in your local time), the W3C eGov IG will host a presentation on the Linked Data API, a new approach to making Linked Data available for use by mainstream web developers. This development effort has been supported and motivated by the data.gov.uk project. We’re happy to have two of the developers, Dave Reynolds and Jeni Tennison, joining us to present.

To join for audio:

+1.617.761.6200, +33.4.89.06.34.99 or +44.117.370.6152
Conference Code: 3468 ("EGOV")
More instructions: http://www.w3.org/2002/01/UsingZakim

To join for text chat:

IRC: irc.w3.org:6665 channel #egov
http://www.mibbit.com/chat/#egov@irc.w3.org:6665

This will be the first of a new style of IG meeting: it will be open the
public, and we’ll start with the presentation, for up to an hour.
Afterword, we’ll switch to more of a business-meeting mode, with our
usual discussions about projects, planning, etc. Members of the public
are welcome to stay and listen for that part.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 9:12 pm categories: Events
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W3C eGov at FOSE

March 23, 2010

Tomorrow afternoon, several members of the Interest Group will be at FOSE presenting Putting Government Data on the Web: It sounds like a great idea. Now, how do we do it?.

If you’re in town, by all means come by. It’s free to many, and only $60 to the rest. I hear it’s a grand event (this will be my first time going), and it’s a good chance to connect with like-minded folks.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 1:21 am categories: Events
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Meetings This Week

March 1, 2010

Meetings this week:

Wednesday, 3 March

Thursday, 4 March

Friday, 5 March

All meeting are on the usual teleconference bridge (+1.617.761.6200) with the conference code 3468(“EGOV”). For more details see teleconferences.

Posted by: Sandro Hawke at 11:45 pm categories: Events
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