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["Mary A. Axford" <mary.axford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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E-GOVERNMENT NEWS
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DUTCH E-GOV LACKS TRANSPARENCY, SUFFICIENT INTERACTIVITY - REPORT
(DMeurope.com) In its end-of-year report, Burger@overheid - an initiative 
of the Dutch Ministry of Home Affairs for monitoring electronic services - 
has criticised the lack of transparency in e-government in the Netherlands.
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=5199

UK COUNCILS DIVIDED OVER HITTING 2005 E-GOV TARGET
(Silicon) The IT and business functions of local authorities are divided 
over whether they will meet the 2005 e-government deadline for putting 
services online, according to new research.
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39126843,00.htm
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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BALKAN BATTLEGROUND MOVES TO CYBERSPACE
(Inter Press Service News Agency) A new war has broken out between Serbs 
and Croats, this time without casualties and bloodshed because the 
battleground is cyberspace.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26791

CHINA CALLS FOR INTERNET CRACKDOWN
(News.com) Chinese authorities have called for greater surveillance of 
internet content claiming that the medium posed a serious danger to China's 
people and culture.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11865542%255E15306,00.html

RSF CONDEMNS MISTREATMENT OF WEBLOGGERS
(Reporters Without Borders) Reporters Without Borders has condemned the 
mistreatment in prison of cyberdissidents and webloggers after an Iranian 
committee report concluded that public confessions of Omid Memarian and 
Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi were obtained under duress.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12246

UK VOLUNTEERING WEBSITE PRAISED
(Scotsman.com) A unique website which aims to boost volunteering throughout 
the UK by allowing individuals to register free time online has been named 
one of the top 10 websites of 2004, it emerged today.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3971820
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