In many countries, the key problem area in political election is loss of trust in counting people’s votes. Joseph Stalin’s said ‘people vote, we count’. It is this area of political election process that is the core problem area creating disputes in many countries...
The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a 3-0 decision issued January 13, has ruled that municipal governments must make available electronic records that the public is entitled to see under freedom of information even if it means developing new software to do so. The case was...
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The holiday season is upon us in Israel. There is a light headedness that appears in the air as if everyone I see is walking just a few inches off the ground. There is an openness of spirit that I sense in the...
[Cross-posted at PBS.org/Idealab.]
At Journalism That Matters "The New Pamphleteers," held earlier this week in Minneapolis, every session meant horizontal communication: no one on a stage, a circle of chairs...
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Yesterday was International Day Against Homophobia- I learned about it through the article below: an event in Havana, Cuba.I thought this was pretty big news. A symposium on same-sex health issues, featuring...
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"The House voted yesterday to shed more light on narrow-interest tax and spending legislation called earmarks, an incremental step toward openness that ended the prospect for a more sweeping overhaul of federal...
A federal judge yesterday found that lawyers for the federal government failed to prove their assertion that privacy and national security should trump the public's right to know when it comes to...