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Roundup of Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily from a variety of resources.
1. “Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records” + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum
2. Now Available: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information
3. San Antonio, TX: New Online Database: Historical Election Results are Digitized
4. Statistics Canada to Make All Online Data Free
5. UK Parliament: MPs to Investigate Library Closures
6. TR Center Officially Launches the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Collection
7. Idaho: Libraries to Adjust to New Internet Filtering Law
9. All Thing Preservation: New NARA (National Archives) Twitter Stream & Tumblr Page
10. U.S. History: Senator George Mitchell Oral History Project Debuts Online
11.New Social Media Resource: “PolitickerUSA is the Best Way to Track Politicians’ Tweets”
12. Video Now Online of NARA’s “What’s Next in Social Media” Forum
13. Child Welfare Information Gateway — State Guides & Manuals Search
14. GPO Releases Its First App
15. New UN Database Available: Expert Panel Launches Tool to Fight Arbitrary Deprivation of Freedom
16. State of Minnesota Posts Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDD)
17. U.S. Government: USAID Launches New GeoCenter
18. Public Access to Indiana’s Historic Sanborn Maps Provides Treasure Trove of Information
19. California: More than 13,000 Online Maps Provide Historic View of State
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
A new book is out entitled, “Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering” edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain from the Berkman Center’s OpenNet Initiative. This is a must-have for libraries — many of whom deal with filtering at the personal computer level — in order to inform the public on the more insidious filtering of internet traffic that happens at the country or backbone level. “Access Denied provides the definitive analysis of government justifications for denying their own people access to some information and also documents global Internet filtering practices on a country-by-country basis. (Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, USC)”
The site includes country profiles for those countries “in which it was believed that there was the most to learn about the extent and processes of Internet filtering.” Read the BBC review and the Review in Nature.
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