EPimentl: eGovernment

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:13:24 GMT

An Opinionated Network. In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says. By washingtonpost.com. [washingtonpost.com - Media Notes Extra]

e-Parliament.

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:12:41 GMT

e-Parliament.

Carlos Guadian from Spain mentions e-Parliament, a new online institution to bring together elected officials from around the world into a global forum to help build a better world. I am encouraging some Utah legislators to participate. It looks like an interesting e-democracy experiment.

[David Fletcher: eGovernment]

EGov

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:07:33 GMT

Service levels more important than e-gov deadlines: survey. Who'da thought it [The Register]

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:29:37 GMT

AnchorFree offers free Wi-Fi in 4-block SF area. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AnchorFree on Monday announced the creation of a free Wi-Fi hot zone in San Francisco's Marina district, along a four-block area of Chestnut St. between Fillmore and Scott Streets. Anyone with a Wi-Fi-capable device, including an Apple computer equipped with AirPort or AirPort Extreme, can use the service indoors or outdoors. The company said it launched the service in response to city mayor Gavin Newsom's 2004 announcement that "we will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service." [MacCentral News]

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:10:44 GMT

WAPI Whacked. Chinese peeved, walked out over procedural move in ISO over WAPI: The Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) proprietary standard that the Chinese government originally intended as a mandatory element for all domestically sold Wi-Fi gear was made optional and moved into the ISO standards organization to be approved as an international protocol. It was fast-tracked for approval initially, but then through a procedural move placed into a slower track. 802.11i remains fast tracked and may be approved as an optional security standard by April. I learned recently that the Chinese object to 802.11i because it includes a 128-bit key length version of AES which they believe the NSA has the ability to decipher. The corresponding problem with WAPI is that it is a proprietary protocol controlled by the government which leads one to believe that it has either a back-door or a weak known flaw in it that would allow interception.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]