Why is e-government not taking off in Asia?

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U.S. Government Was Taking Photos of
Soldiers' Coffins

U.S. Government Was Taking Photos of
Soldiers' Coffins 04/23/2004 08:12 AM

There's a lot more to the story of the photos of coffins of the brave men and women who died in Iraq. As the New York Times reports today, the firing of the civilian contractor who gave such a picture to the Seattle Times only underscores government hypocrisy. As the Times article notes:

The firing underscored the strictness with which the Pentagon and the Bush administration have pursued a policy of forbidding news organizations to showing images of the homecomings of the war dead at military bases. They have argued that the policy was put in place during the first war in Iraq, and that it is simply an effort to protect the sensitivities of military families. Executives at news organizations, many of whom have protested the policy, said last night that they had not known that the Defense Department itself was taking photographs of the coffins arriving home, a fact that came to light only when Russ Kick, the operator of The Memory Hole, filed his request.

This just bolsters the claim that the only sensibilities being protected here are those of our political leaders who are willing for the sad images of this war to be public only after they've left office. They're not protecting the families. They're protecting themselves. The other lesson here is the way independent news operations like the Memory Hole are helping to reshape journalism. The little guy, once again, beat the rest of us.

Korea Stands Second in E-Government
Ranking in Asia

Korea Stands Second in E-Government
Ranking in Asia 11/06/2003 01:52 AM
Digital Chosunilbo Nov 6 2003 0:29AM ET

Korea Ranks 2nd in e-Government Ranking
in Asia

Korea Ranks 2nd in e-Government Ranking
in Asia 11/05/2003 03:42 PM
Hankooki Nov 5 2003 2:14PM ET

Off the Path: The Government says it is
meditating on the idea of taking out an
Intellectual Property Right to

Off the Path: The Government says it is
meditating on the idea of taking out an
Intellectual Property Right to 09/16/2004 10:48 AM
Lanka Business Online Sep 16 2004 1:48PM GMT

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Sea
surges kill thousands in Asia

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Sea
surges kill thousands in Asia 12/26/2004 02:36 PM
the recent fuck-off tsunami .. BBC news story

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Asia
battles earthquake aftermath

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Asia
battles earthquake aftermath 12/28/2004 01:18 PM
9.0 magnitude quake .. eerily topical .. much to say .. strike

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Asia battles
earthquake aftermath

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Asia battles
earthquake aftermath 12/28/2004 01:18 PM
the horrific tsunamis in Asia .. impact of the 9-pointer .. tsunami sea surge

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Sea surges kill
thousands in Asia

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Sea surges kill
thousands in Asia 12/26/2004 04:36 PM
BBC NEWS South Asia Sea surges kill thousands in Asia

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TechVision Asia new computer reseller
for Asia-Pacific region

TechVision Asia new computer reseller
for Asia-Pacific region 09/18/2004 03:40 AM
TechVision Asia is a new reseller of computer components for the asia pacific region. We are specialized in networking and storage products. [PRWEB Sep 18, 2004]

"better at taking credit than taking
action."

"better at taking credit than taking
action." 01/03/2005 05:57 AM

Microsoft woos Asia in ASIA

Microsoft woos Asia in ASIA 06/13/2004 09:29 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jun 14 2004 2:03AM GMT

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership 02/07/2005 01:08 AM
AME Info Feb 6 2005 9:47AM GMT

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region 01/25/2004 01:52 AM
AME Info Jan 25 2004 5:33AM GMT

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit 08/05/2004 08:47 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 5 2004 1:01PM GMT

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004 05/09/2004 12:19 AM
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-GovernmentRanking

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Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot

Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
Africa Leader Jun 21 2005 8:33PM GMT

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
Can a 'gated Open Source community' really work?

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

30% of all government transactions are
e-government in Canada

30% of all government transactions are
e-government in Canada 04/05/2005 02:19 AM
ZDNet Apr 5 2005 4:39AM GMT

E-government - Electronic Government

E-government - Electronic Government 02/16/2004 05:46 AM
EurActiv.com Feb 16 2004 8:36AM GMT

C|Net taking over MP3.com?

C|Net taking over MP3.com? 11/14/2003 12:33 PM
We got a rogue release from a MacMerc reader that states C|Net is taking over MP3.com. Before you get too excited, the release went on to say that they will take down the music and launch yet another pay-for music service. Timeframe? December 2nd. Start your [free] downloads now!

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DNA That's Yours for the Taking

DNA That's Yours for the Taking 11/05/2003 06:24 AM
British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Taking Net know-how on the road

Taking Net know-how on the road 09/15/2004 06:14 AM
National Post Sep 15 2004 10:51AM GMT

Taking a vacation

Taking a vacation 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

I'll be away from the office until February 15th in order to take a long-promised Disney vacation with my family. I'll be checking the support newsgroups while I'm gone, but my replies will likely be slower than usual until I return. So, if you don't get an immediate reply, please don't take it personally :)

Taking it to the Streets

Taking it to the Streets 07/20/2004 09:29 PM

I'm starting to like these Salon articles on social networking. They're well researched, written and informative. What a concept - no more copycat journalism!

Here's the article by Paul Lamb....

Get up, stand up, social network

Can online networking offer a leg up to the disadvantaged? The founder of Street Tech aims to find out.

By Paul Lamb

July 20, 2004 | "Welcome to the brave new world of social networking," I tell a group of 30-odd African-American, Latino, Southeast Asian, and white adult students from low-income and underserved communities in the San Francisco East Bay. Six months ago most of them knew nothing about computers, but they will soon be certified computer technicians, having completed a rigorous technical and soft-skills training program at the nonprofit organization called Street Tech that I helped to found five years ago. Today they are learning about social networking.

Despite the relative success of our job placement efforts for Street Tech graduates, some will fail for the same reasons they came to us for training -- they lack education and in-demand skills, or suffer from low self-esteem. For many the transition from street culture to mainstream business culture is a major challenge. Try to imagine the opposite scenario of a white professional moving into an urban ghetto and you can begin to understand.

In addition to good skills and great mentors, what our students really need to succeed professionally is a good social network to plug into. As any successful professional knows, in most cases it is people and not the classifieds that will help you get your next job and the one after that. In fact, jobs are 10 times more likely to be found via a professional's network than on a job board. Thirty-five to 50 percent of hires made by hiring managers come through direct referrals.

It is for these reasons that I have chosen to conduct an experiment in social networking. My thinking is that since people networking is the best way to get a job, perhaps the latest in online social networking tools can be used to help the "unconnected" to connect in ways not previously possible. In other words, can the latest networking technology be leveraged to allow marginalized and disadvantaged folks to build a personal network that allows them to leap over the old boys/girls networks that have traditionally shut them out? If my hypothesis is correct (that social networking can indeed be used as an effective tool for social justice) then we may have stumbled upon something really important and useful here.

So to start this quest I called up the folks at LinkedIn, the premier social networking tool for professionals. To my pleasant surprise they not only seemed genuinely interested in helping out, but agreed to set up a group within LinkedIn for the students, supporters and employer partners of Street Tech. I have been working steadily since then to build out the group and invite as many folks as possible to join it. In theory, the more people you have in your social networking group, and the more contacts that each individual group member has, the greater your chances of connecting with friends of friends that have an appropriate job contact. According to LinkedIn, nearly half of their 600,000 current users are hiring managers.

One of the real advantages I see to a tool like LinkedIn is that it allows the hiring manager to feel more comfortable about a referral because, in theory, the referral is coming from a trusted source -- thus making their chances for success much higher than if that same hiring manager just received a stranger's résumé on his or her desk. Second, our students can use the tool to search out numerous employers at one time and don't have to go to numerous job boards or make cold calls without first having an inside connection. Finally, the Internet is a much safer place for our folks to start out. Here they are anonymous and will not be judged by their physical experience or lack of mainstream professional graces.

No doubt social networking is not the holy grail for the disadvantaged job seeker or social networker. It has numerous downsides. The various online social networking sites were clearly built by the educated elite for the educated elite, not for people of lower socioeconomic status. The current tools are therefore not entirely welcoming and user friendly for those on the far side of the professional divide. The premier sites are not interactive enough, and are not as attractive to younger folks and those who are more visually intuitive.

Ultimately I don't know how this experiment is going to turn out, and I realize full well that face-to-face people skills are far more important than what any online social networking tool has to offer. Landing a job through social networking or any other means is only half the battle. Keeping the job and moving up the career ladder is a much bigger challenge, and one that technology tools cannot fully assist with at present.

But the potential for greater opportunity through social networking is there -- all of Street Tech's students are now linked in to LinkedIn, understand clearly its advantages and disadvantages, and seem genuinely excited about using it and other social networking tools. We won't know how effective the tool is for our folks for perhaps a year or so. In the meantime I am prepared to give it my all because I have witnessed firsthand the power of technology to change people's lives and to bridge the digital divide. Ask any of our many graduates that started out with no computer skills and now are successful computer professionals and they will tell you firsthand.

My hope is that social networking can indeed become a tool for social justice. Maybe then we can begin creating more and better technology tools, not just for the person with the deepest pockets, but for those whose pockets are in most need of filling.

[Salon]

- Taking the cue from CeBIT

- Taking the cue from CeBIT 03/23/2005 08:09 AM
IT AsiaOne Mar 23 2005 9:44AM GMT

Taking notes

Taking notes 08/16/2004 08:25 AM
How do people take notes these days? I've poked around this list of outliners and note takers but nothing seems to do exactly what I want. But my needs are pretty simple and pretty common, so surely somewhere there's a piece of software that'll help. I'd like an outliner. It doesn't even have to be very sophisticated. As I read a source, I want to type in brief notes that I can stick into that outline, with some notes stored in multiple places. I only want to type in the bibliographic information once, so it needs some way of annotating...

Taking Wi-Fi to the Streets

Taking Wi-Fi to the Streets 12/11/2003 02:33 PM
You know Wi-Fi has really hit the mainstream when art students use it in their performance art pieces: Students from New York's Parsons Design and Technology have built access points into bicycles and will use them to send emails from New York subways. The architects of this idea seem a bit torn between regarding it as performance art and pointing to its utility. There's not a very detailed techincal explanation for how this works, but it appears that the APs use cell networks for backhaul or are used as repeaters to extend signals from other hotspots. It's kind of a cool idea for delivering Wi-Fi connections on short notice or for a temporary reason. Or, wouldn't it just be cool to have so that you could be sure of having a connection--and be able to share it with pals--anywhere?...

Taking on the iPod

Taking on the iPod 08/07/2004 11:56 AM
Craig McHugh remembers the late 1990s, when naysayers "scoffed" at the idea of consumers moving digital music from their computers to portable devices.

It didn't go over very well, to say the least," said McHugh, president of Creative Labs, the maker of the Nomad Zen line of personal audio players.

Still, Creative introduced its Nomad Jukebox, a first-of-its-kind, hard drive MP3 player in 2000 -- less than a year after the record industry sued Napster for allowing people to share MP3 music files over the Internet at no charge.

Since then, the old Napster has gone away. And the online music industry -- now working under a pay-per-song model -- has blossomed. That has set up Creative for perhaps its biggest showdown. The 23-year-old company is stepping up its foray into digital music players as competition in the market heats up with the success of Apple's iPod player and the entry of rivals like Sony.

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FC Now: Taking It to the Limit

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit 03/22/2005 05:12 PM
How far would you go to express your passion for a particular brand? I'm talking above and beyond wearing or using it. Think about it. Would you put its sticker on your bumper? Perhaps you may even have its logo...

Taking the Heat

Taking the Heat 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

So Brent’s all angry at me now. When I first scheduled the gaming sessions, we talked about him coming with me for the day, but I hadn’t mentioned it since then, just in case. He’s referred to it a couple of times, asking when it was coming up, but I always just responded with a vague “soon.” This week I found out he had an English test that day, so I didn’t mention it at all. You can imagine how upset he was when he found out where I had been all day. It didn’t help that he watched me upload the pictures to Flickr, either.

He first noticed the case for AADL’s DVD sitting on the kitchen table, so I explained to him how they held the tournaments at their library every weekend during the “season.” His immediate response, of course, was, “Can I go?” Even when I noted it was six hours away (taking into account construction traffic), he still wanted to go. I told him how staff from their library came to my office to teach other librarians in Illinois how to do these tournaments themselves, and he thought that was very cool. He also rationalized the whole thing by saying that I probably didn’t take him because I was too scared I’d lose to him (no doubt he would have won every tournament!). He’s excited about the idea of going to the library to watch and play against his friends.

You know, normally I talk about shifting library services to where our users our, rather than forcing them to come to us. However, gaming is a great example of the reverse, and it definitely works for bringing in young boys.

Interestingly, during our conversation, my Treo was sitting on the table in front of us. When Brent realized it was there, he said, “Put on some music, dawg.” He very much thinks of my phone as an MP3 player. Of course the rest of the night, all I heard about was how big I owe him for not taking him to the gaming workshops….

Taking shape

Taking shape 06/08/2004 07:29 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:53AM GMT

VIA taking on Nintendo?

VIA taking on Nintendo? 05/04/2004 06:33 AM

Taking on the DMCA

Taking on the DMCA 11/03/2003 03:42 PM
CNET Nov 3 2003 3:08PM ET

Taking out the garbage

Taking out the garbage 09/01/2004 06:14 AM

Scoble was fascinated how news of the Longhorn recalc propogated, but he missed the most fascinating aspect of the announcement. Microsoft shipped the story on a Friday night, I even got a detailed email from a Waggenerette, but the blogosphere waited until Monday to carry the story.

It wasn't that we were on vacation or weren't checking email over the weekend, it's just that by announcing it on Friday, Microsoft was clearly "taking out the garbage" (a term I learned from The West Wing). The blogosphere didn't play along. Blog flow over weekends, esp a late summer weekend, is miniscule compared to the flow on a Monday morning.

Taking the Y out of Wireless

Taking the Y out of Wireless 09/01/2004 08:01 AM

« If God has gotten into the petroleum industry, it sure would explain a lot with current world news, now wouldn't it? No one seems to know what this place is as it's always deserted on the inside. »

Another perl person became the father of a daughter in the past few days [congratulations Ken :)] and this is another interesting and corroborating datapoint for a theory I have that I would like to see given some real research. My theory is this:

Men who use Apple iBooks/Powerbooks with wireless cards have a very high probability [>85%] of having female offspring that is far greater than the statistical average.

For the Americans who slept through basic biology classes in grade school, I should explain that the sperm determines the sex/gender, not the mother via excretions of hormones, nor are all embryos female at conception since as far as the genetics are concerned you are either XX or XY at the moment of fertilisation. I started half-jokingly suggesting this idea when a few perl guys had female babies but the trend has continued to the point where there may be something to it. One perl guy who uses an iBook without wireless has a male baby. One guy had a baby boy before he started using a wireless iBook and afterwards he had a baby girl. Coincidence? I'm really beginning to believe that it isn't.

Perhaps it's some sort of karma or divine revenge to give computer geeks who aren't entirely aware of what jerks, intentional or not, they are towards women, but science can't empirically prove that. It is entirely possible that the Y sperm are weaker [typically they are and this is partially why all the woman's eggs are X's, at least this was the theory back in the dark ages when I was in university] and more susceptible to the wireless card radiation which, when the laptop is on the lap, is sitting directly above the family jewels. Bullshit or an emerging pattern of plausible causation? Or maybe a secret conspiracy by women's organisations to breed more women? :) It would be a fascinating clinical study if a few medical people decided to take the theory and try to prove it right or wrong. I, of course, will continue to be very entertained by the baby girls ganging up on perl guys. :)

Taking Control

Taking Control 04/14/2004 06:32 PM
You Software is now in the plural with two products for Mac OS X, You Control and You Synchronize, which won the best-of-show at Macworld San Francisco this year. By Garry Barker, The Age (via MyAppleMenu)

Taking a Second Look at Cisco

Taking a Second Look at Cisco 05/13/2004 02:04 PM
Business Week May 13 2004 5:38PM GMT

Taking RSS security seriously

Taking RSS security seriously 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
It is nice to see that Aggie RC5 proactively strips all script, object and meta tags from text before displaying it.

The RSS validator has always flagged script, meta, embed, and object tags. But the real fixes need to be in the aggregators. Kudos to Aggie.

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