Government privacy employees, as well as the contractors and vendors who serve federal and state agencies, are invited to seek a new privacy credential under a program backed by major IT companies including IBM Corp., Mitre Corp. and SRA International Inc.
The Certified Information Privacy Professional/Government (CIPP/G) credentialing program is the first publicly available privacy certification for government professionals, according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Weiterlesen: USA: Privacy credential established for government professionals
Governor Fletcher has launched a project to make several state buildings and state-owned spaces more user-friendly for visitors. For phase one, wireless high-speed Internet access will be available to residents and visitors in a 3 sq. mile area that includes the Capital Plaza Tower, the Transportation Building, the Old Capitol Annex and surrounding grounds, the Frankfort Convention Center, the Kentucky History Museum, and the Capitol building and grounds.
Weiterlesen: USA: Kentucky Program Forms Large Hot Zone in City of Frankfort
The National Science Foundation is gearing up to award a $7.5m grant to create a trustworthy electronic voting system.
The independent, federally funded US agency plans to support the project across six institutions that will be lead by John Hopkins University.
With its Information Bridge program, the Energy Department’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information is trying to do away with such messages. The agency is giving its research documents permanent addresses on the Web so they can always be found. Ascribing permanence in an online world is no easy feat, but it may go a long way toward minimizing “Document Not Found” messages.
The first decade of the Web was a time of fluidity for government agencies. Early adopters posted agency material, only to have it shuffled around as new IT initiatives and enterprise architectures uprooted the order of documents. These days, when someone types in an older Web address for some agency page, chances are they’ll see an error message. Equally problematic is the fact that, as copies of documents proliferate across the Web, updates go unnoticed. And these sorts of problems will only grow worse over time.
GSA released a request for information earlier this month and will hold an industry day Aug. 25 in Washington to describe their needs for electronic directory services. Responses to the RFI are due Sept. 7.
Weiterlesen: USA: GSA issues RFI for database to share terrorism information