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Open Government Links of the Week – October 7, 2011
by Justin Mosebach 
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FOIA Court Challenges Up 27% in FY 2011 (on Federal Level)
- “The recently completed 2011 fiscal year saw 378 court challenges to the withholding of information by the federal government, up 27% from the previous fiscal year, according to district court information compiled as part of the FOIA Project (http://www.foiaproject.org).”
State and Local Cloud Commission Has First Meeting
- “Nine public-sector IT executives were named Thursday, Oct. 6, as advisers to a commission of industry heavyweights that [plan to] develop recommendations for implementation of cloud computing in state and local government.” (govtech.com)
This week is National Newspaper Week.
- We’d provide you a better link but ironically, there doesn’t seem to be a more official (and updated/accurate) one to link to. So if the provided link doesn’t suffice, we’ll kindly just leave it up to you to look it up on your favorite search engine. (HT to a Daily Press article in an email blast from the Virginia Coalition for Open Government)
iPads help suburban governments go paperless, at a cost
- “Mundelein High School District 120 board members no longer wade through thick packets of memos, contracts and reports at their semimonthly meetings”
- Find out more in the article…
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