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Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints

whitepaper Above all, reforms can improve the information and incentives of voters and creditors. But in the long term such rules should let local voters and creditors know that local obligations are indeed local.

Tags: performance budgeting and management, term, voters, creditors

[10 Apr 2008]

Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss

News Other voters were slightly less draconian in their views with 31 per cent suggesting company bosses should be fired for losing data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data...

Tags: full disclosure, criminal, punishment, poll

[14 Feb 2008]

Financial Services Firm Provides Revolutionary Service to Clients at Low Cost

whitepaper Swingvote wanted to automate the proxy management process, providing an online platform for institutional voters to cast votes and have access to relevant information and reports. Using Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT and Microsoft Message...

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

Web Site for Greek Elections Attracts Over 150 Million Hits

whitepaper The Ministry of Interior in Athens wanted to improve its results service for voters in the 2002 municipal and prefectural elections. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Delta Singular provided not only results via the Internet but also via SMS...

Tags: web services, .net framework, .net, framework

[31 Aug 2007]

Web Site for Greek Elections Attracts Over 150 Million Hits

whitepaper The Ministry of Interior in Athens wanted to improve its results service for voters in the 2002 municipal and prefectural elections. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Delta Singular provided not only results via the Internet but also via SMS...

Tags: hand, microsoft .net, framework, .net

[10 Aug 2007]

Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy

News He's already experimented with speaking with the electorate over IM; using a mobile chatroom and asking for opinions from voters via e-petitions. YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used the video-sharing site to...

Tags: youtube, sarkozy, blair

[09 May 2007]

E-counting under scrutiny in election shambles

News Campbell, who runs usability consultancy Foviance, said voters had difficulty with two separate ballot papers. She said: "No one explained the process, so voters were rating all 10 candidates, when they only needed to rate the candidates they...

Tags: e-counting, election

[04 May 2007]

Council offers election results by text

News South Oxfordshire District Council is giving voters the option of receiving local election results as a text message. Voters are in the process of casting their ballots at polling stations in England, Scotland and Wales.

[03 May 2007]

Stories of the month - April 2007

News Microsoft took a philosophical approach to these 10,000 anti-Vista voters. April is the cruellest month - and it's certainly been less than kind to CrackBerry addicts in North America who were forced to go cold turkey as an outage took their...

Tags: second life, dell, blackberry, stories of the month

[30 Apr 2007]

SAS Analyzes Inmate Data Alongside Fiscal and HR Data

whitepaper But oftentimes, those who are footing the bill - voters, state legislatures and county budgeting offices - question the effectiveness of these programs. Hoping to increase system efficiencies and improve prisoner success rates, many state and...

Tags: knowledge and data management, questions, sas, programs

[26 Dec 2006]

Will's Web Watch: Life on Google Earth

Comment This week's US midterm elections have seen mash-ups of demographic and political data with Google Earth, enabling voters to see the bigger picture - potentially combating apathy and encouraging voters to turn out.

Tags: google earth, google

[06 Nov 2006]

Brits warm to hot biometrics and cold lager

News While many people remain opposed to large scale biometric schemes such as those being proposed to underpin new passports and ID cards, 40 per cent of voters in a silicon.com poll said they would be prepared to register their fingerprints with a...

Tags: yeovil, biometrics

[31 Oct 2006]

Google mashes up US elections

News Google has created a mash-up that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the US congressional races coming up in two weeks. The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool indicates the US' 436 congressional districts...

Tags: mash-up, google

[23 Oct 2006]

IT vendors 'more honest' than estate agents

News A poll of silicon.com readers has discovered that given a choice of five of the most common kinds of salesmen, voters backed the IT vendor as the least dishonest, with estate agents far and away the least trusted.

Tags: it vendors

[17 Jul 2006]

E-counting tech to be used in Scottish elections

News The use of e-counting will help with calculating the result following the introduction of the complicated Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, which is being used for the Scottish local authority elections, where voters can make as many...

Tags: e-counting

[13 Jun 2006]

Microsoft's plans for 'new JPEG' leave users cold

News In a poll asking whether a JPEG competitor is needed, almost half of the 5,621 voters expressed interest in a new format but voiced concern "about it being a Microsoft product". The world is ready for a new photo compression format to rival the...

Tags: jpeg, microsoft

[01 Jun 2006]

UK held back by IT-illiterate MPs

News A poll of silicon.com readers revealed little faith among voters that the Houses of Parliament contain anywhere near the level of necessary experience in IT. UK business and innovation is being held back by a lack of MPs with relevant knowledge and...

[12 May 2006]

US to block minors' access to MySpace?

News Fitzpatrick's bill, called the Deleting Online Predators Act, or Dopa, is part of a new, poll-driven effort by Republicans to address topics they view as important to suburban voters. MySpace.com has recently found itself pummelled by critical...

Tags: social-networking, myspace

[11 May 2006]

Photos: Voters go high-tech at local elections

Photo The system was developed by Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Unisys and uses an electronic register, which contains details of all voters in Rushmoor. Rushmoor Borough Council also used new ballot-marking technology from ES&S and Unisys to...

Tags: rushmoor, unisys, e-voting

[05 May 2006]

Leader: Why Blair must foster tech savvy

Leader Rather, because it is the seat of our government and because we as voters have a right to contact our MPs, it is vital that such issues are addressed. Many of us have been in the situation where we change jobs and realise the IT in our new office...

Tags: technophobe, technology, government

[21 Mar 2006]

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