Re: eGov @ W3C Renewal

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-Rachel (invited expert)
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Rachel Flagg 
Co-Chair, Federal Web Managers Council 
Center for Excellence in Digital Government 
Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies 
U.S. General Services Administration 
rachel.flagg@gsa.gov 
HowTo.gov -- Helping agencies deliver a great customer experience 





Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> 
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04/28/2011 09:23 PM

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Re: eGov @ W3C Renewal






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--- On Thu, 4/28/11, Chris Beer <chris@e-beer.net.au> wrote:

> From: Chris Beer <chris@e-beer.net.au>
> Subject: Re: eGov @ W3C Renewal
> To: "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
> Cc: "W3C eGov Interest Group (All)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>, "W3C 
eGovAnnouncements" <public-egov-announce@w3.org>
> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 10:55 PM
> On behalf of the Invited Expert
> (Public Members) participants to the W3C e-Government
> Interest Group I would like to strongly urge member
> organizations to support the continuing work of the W3C in
> this space.
> 
> Many of us come from within Government and Academia, often
> where our respective employers cannot or will not become
> member organizations. None the less, the work of the IG has
> been instrumental in not only facilitating the free exchange
> of ideas and promotion of W3C standards between countries
> and agencies, but has been somewhat instrumental in the move
> towards Linked Open Data and the data.gov.* efforts by
> Governments worldwide.
> 
> Please support our continued work in these very exciting
> times for Government in an online world.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Chris Beer
> Invited Expert (Public Member)
> 
> On 29/04/2011, at 12:13, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Reminder - the review period for whether W3C should
> continue with eGov
> > work ends Friday, 29 April (today/tomorrow).  W3C
> member organizations
> > [1] can weigh in, through their AC Representative [2]
> at this
> > access-controlled form:
> > 
> >    http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/egov2011/
> > 
> > Reviews are very important as the decision is made, in
> the next few
> > days, concerning how to allocation resources for the
> next two years.
> > 
> >      -- Sandro Hawke,  W3C
> eGovernment Activity Lead
> > 
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
> > [2] AC Rep contact information, for people with Member
> Access:
> > http://www.w3.org/Member/ACList
> > 
> > 
> 
>