eGovernment refers to the use of the Web or other information technologies by governing bodies to interact with their citizenry, between departments and divisions, and between governments themselves.
The eGov Interest Group is chartered to build and strengthen the community of people who use or promote the use of W3C technologies to improve Government. The group is to identify and discuss essential areas of technology and related policy issues. Such discussions will occur, amongst other places, on its mailing list, in teleconference seminars, and at face-to-face gatherings. On topics with sufficient interest and motivated participants, the group will form task forces to produce documents and otherwise reach out to relevant communities.
The Gov Linked Data (GLD) Working Group is chartered to provide standards and other information which help governments around the world publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies. The group is to collect and make available information about government Linked Data activities around the world. It will use that information and the experience of its participants to develop W3C Recommendations for Best Practices and for RDF Vocabularies necessary for publication of government data in RDF, as Linked Data. Concurrently with this Working Group, W3C has chartered the eGovernment Interest Group for broad community discussion of government use of the Web.
The eGov IG met at TPAC and has been meeting approximately monthly to discuss topics of interest to the group. Tomasz Janowski of the United Nations University in Macao was appointed co-chair, and the group began to transition to having meetings at times that support participation from people in Asia and Oceania.
The GLD WG began beta-testing its community directory and released Working Drafts of its vocabularies for statistical "cube" data, organizational structures, data catalogs, and people.
Each group plans to continue on its present course, with the IG hoping for increased participation and effectiveness with the addition of Tomasz. The GLD WG expects to release a Working Draft of its "Best Practices for Government Linked Data" deliverable, as well as improving its vocabulary documents and the community directory.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| eGovernment Interest Group (participants) | Jeanne Holm, Tomasz Janowski | Sandro Hawke | Chartered until 31 May 2013 |
| Government Linked Data Working Group (participants) | George Thomas, Bernadette Hyland | Sandro Hawke | Chartered until 31 May 2013 |
This Activity Statement was prepared for TPAC 2012 per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
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