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proposal for a Basic Income Grant in Namibia

See original: BIG Coalition Namibia

Dave Cole, on the White House Blog, announced today that WhiteHouse.gov is making some of its custom code open source. A great deal of the code created for and at the White House's online outfit is available as part of Drupal.org.

The current releases are Context HTTP Headers, GovDelivery and NodeEmbed.
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• Context HTTP Headers "allows site builders to add new metadata to the content they serve."
• GovDelivery is a module that unites CMS with "one of the popular services for government email programs."
• NodeEmbed is a tool for managing photo and video metadata.

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See original: WhiteHouse.gov Makes Custom Code Available

An anonymous reader writes "The US Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations that has left no doubt the US is the biggest barrier to official release of the ACTA text. Unlike most other ACTA countries that have called for transparency without condition, the US has set conditions that effectively seek to trade its willingness to release the text for gains on the substance of the text."

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See original: US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency

DustyShadow writes "Harvard's Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig have an interesting op-ed in Friday's Washington Post, arguing that it would be constitutionally dubious for President Obama to adopt the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as an executive agreement. '[T]he Obama administration has suggested it will adopt the pact as a "sole executive agreement" that requires only the president's approval. ... Joining ACTA by sole executive agreement would far exceed these precedents. The president has no independent constitutional authority over intellectual property or communications policy, and there is no long historical practice of making sole executive agreements in this area. To the contrary, the Constitution gives primary authority over these matters to Congress, which is charged with making laws that regulate foreign commerce and intellectual property.'"

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See original: Will ACTA Be Found Unconstitutional?