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An innovative pilot project to involve 10,000 randomly-selected German citizens in political debate and policymaking, one of the largest programmes of its kind ever undertaken, was launched this month....
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Becta, the UK government’s agency for information and communications technology in education, is to be closed as part of the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s plans to save an initial £6.2 billion through cuts in non-front-line public services....
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NEWS IN BRIEF:
Australian Billion:
In contrast to the current UK climate, more than a billion dollars has been allocated to improve Australian e-government services and public sector technology projects in the country’s new federal budget. Of this, 470 million Australian Dollars ($A) will be allocated to develop an e-health records infrastructure over two years, and $A70 million to technology projects at the Australian Taxation Office, said Ann Steward, the government’s chief information officer:
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Combination Ballot: A new voting system combining machine optical scanning, data processing, and manual methods is being developed by UK researchers in the hope of avoiding drawbacks with purely manual or electronic voting systems. Under development at the universities of Surrey and Birmingham, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, the system uses a perforated ballot paper, randomising the order of candidates names. Voters tear the paper in half after casting their vote, scan the half with the vote on (which is fed into a database), then shred the candidates’ names. Voters then keep their casting paper, and can log on to a website to view their ballot scan, ensuring tampering cannot take place:
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Chairing Futures: Dylan Roberts has been confirmed as the new chair of Socitm Futures, the strategy and policy generating body of the public sector Society of IT Management. Roberts, who is chief ICT officer at Leeds County Council and member of the Local CIO (chief information officer) Council, takes over the post from Glyn Evans, who is now focusing on his new role as Socitm Vice President:
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The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was set up by the United Nations 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis to provide a global framework for all stakeholders - including governments, business, Parliamentarians and civil society - to discuss internet policy and governance issues. Dan Jellinek reports on the key issues facing the IGF from the organisation’s UK meeting....
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How will the internet be governed in the future...?
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