Friday, January 10, 2003

E-government in China So Dave Winer is going to Harvard as a fellow at the Berkman Center.  That is cool.  After checking out the latest edition of The Filter, I finally got around to looking at Zittrain and Edelman's study of internet filtering in China.  What a great piece of work!  I studied Chinese for years, including Chinese law while at the University of Washington, and haven't had time to spend on Chinese sites recently.  So, I took a quick visit to Taiwan's e-Government portal.  Now that was an interesting diversion.  I like the URL: www.gov.tw.  I think that would be a nice standard for national egov portals.  Interesting thing: many of the egov sites I visited in Taiwan play music.  They definitely don't have the official look and feel of US (EEUU) egov sites. While visiting the UW's Graduate School of Public Affairs, I noticed that Dael Wolfle recently died at 96 years of age.  He was a great public servant and proponent for the advancement of science within government.  8:38:10 AM    comment []

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