Re: organising an eGov global taskforce suggestions(redux)

 *may or may not agree with his political views (in fact I disagree with him quite a lot, yet the disagreement is documented in castellano [2] but he has a lot to say and has original ideas. However he does not speak English, so without a translating mechanism the group cannot interface with him.  

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4lqUa8gH0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_syz1_FxOHw (not a good video, just taped the conversation for note taking purposes)


The key thing for me is that some important ideas exist in the world that people may not come across because of the language divide.

Depending on who we find, and the type of work being done,  it could be group to have language specific subgroups to create telegraphic summaries of key documents/events/talks/ideas/books in local languages etc, and translate them to english, and generally cross reference resources and initiatives.  I find Google translate does a decent job , then a native speaker must make a few passes to refine the translation

>As far as guidelines go, I think the Improving Access to Government
>through Better Use of the Web [1] still does a pretty good job. But
>perhaps we need to build upon it?

defnt
 
Are there gaps that you think need
>to be addressed? I agree that there is definitely a need to share case
>studies better. 

must think
 
This area of the Wiki is particularly vacant [2,3].
>Maybe collecting already published examples of effective use of the
>Web by government would be a good way to bootstrap it? It seems like
>minimally adding the use cases that have come up on telecons would be
>a good thing to do.
>
>

 I suspect I may have started one or two of the pages below but may have forgotten to populate them (sorry) would b e good if those doing a presentation could also list and link the materials and documentation  in the relevant portions of the wiki <process>

 
//Ed
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>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/egov-improving/
>[2] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Main_Page#6._Case_Studies
>[3] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/EGov_Procurement
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