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The European Medicines Agency has recently upgraded its EudraGMP database with information on good distribution practice (GDP) in addition to good manufacturing practice (GMP).
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On 14 March 2013, Danielle Gagnaux, the chancellor of Fribourg canton and André Simonazzi, the Federal Council spokesman, launched a revamped version of the ch.ch portal, which provides a quick way of finding information about the confederation, cantons and communes.
Only 17% of UK local authorities are creating websites that can be viewed adequately on a mobile device, despite the fact that almost a third of people accessing online council information are now using such devices, according to the Society of IT Management (Socitm). The findings come as part of this year’s “Better Connected” review [...]
Major failures in two pieces of high-profile technology that were intended to make the recent Kenyan national elections run more smoothly are to be investigated by a special committee of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). The glitches in March meant the country had to rely on traditional methods of polling and vote-counting. Biometric voter [...]
A series of ‘digital health hubs’ are being set up across the UK to teach digital skills and train people to use the internet to improve their knowledge about health, nutrition, wellness and fitness issues. The project is the result of a partnership between the Online Centres Foundation, which manages digital inclusion network UK online [...]
One year ago, E-Government Bulletin published a special report on BeNeighbors.org, an initiative from the pioneering non-profit E-Democracy.org to connect communities in two neighbouring US cities – Minneapolis and St Paul, known as the Twin Cities – using online forums (see E-Gov Bulletin 346: http://bit.ly/XnE5T0). Funded with a 625,000 US Dollar grant, the project had [...]
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The Italian Association for People with Rheumatic Diseases (A.P.MA.R.) has recently announced the successful launch in Italy of an advanced mobile application software (app) for people with rheumatoid arthritis, called the Rheumatoid Arthritis App.
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As announced on 26 March 2013, the Borrow Books library provides users with a new services that enables them to search the online catalogues and websites of Irish public library authorities and request books, CDs, DVDs, etc. to be delivered to their own local branch.
The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe.
The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe.
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On 20 March 2013 the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of North Rhine (KV Nordrhein) presented its pilot project to manage electronic hospital admissions and discharges.
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A taskforce for making ATMs accessible for blind and visually impaired people has been recently set up in Austria in order to define the technical guidelines for making ATMs accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
Greek regional administrations should consider open technologies, including software and data, when drafting their next regional management plans, argues Eel/lak, a Greek open source advocacy organisation founded by 25 universities and research centres. The advocacy group last week sent a letter to the authorities of all thirteen Greek regions, explaining the advantages of this technology.
All environmentally - conscious information professionals are of course welcome to attend and participate in all the SIG’s activities in Singapore. Those who would like to present a paper (unpublished) at the Open Session, sharing their experiences, projects or research should check our Call for Papers/Abstracts on the WLIC 2013 Conference Website.
Thanks to the kindness of the Singapore National Library Board, the venue for these events will be at the Singapore National Library, a few minutes walk from the SUNTEC Convention Center. We will also be treated to a special visit to the newly inaugurated Green Children's Library, called "The Tree House". (More news soon!).
Last November the IFLA team attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku.
During our time there we were run four workshops. These workshops were very successfully received and the videos are now available online.