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.
In June, this activity was rechartered, extending the eGovernment Interest Group (IG) and launching the Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group. Since then, the eGov IG has begun meeting on a monthly basis and the GLD WG had a face-to-face meeting and began meeting on a weekly basis.
The IG plans to meet at TPAC and the GLD plans to release its community directory, along with other deliverables as detailed in its charter.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| eGovernment Interest Group (participants) | Jeanne Holm | 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 2011 per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
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