It used to be that a government agency's outreach department only had to worry about posting information on that agency's Web site. Now, that department has a variety of conduits it could use — ranging from Twitter.com, YouTube.com and Facebook.com to mobile phones. To this end, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has started to develop the process of developing a set of standards that governments could use for harnessing these Web 2.0 and social networking technologies.
It was with some pride that in 2002 the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) announced that it would be among the first such bodies in the world to support eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). As the government body responsible for supervision of Australia's financial services and insurance industries, APRA believed the standard's enablement of consistent financial reporting structures would make it extremely popular among the 10,000 institutions required to report regularly to APRA.
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Bund, Länder und Gemeinden sollten sich bei der Entwicklung von E-Government-Anwendungen an den technischen Vorgaben der Vereinten Nationen (UN) orientieren. Das fordert der Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM).
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