When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week,
Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by
making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for
the creation of a single point of access to all public federal information.
The idea is to enable the data to be accessed by developers whose
applications will open up federal data to the sunlight of millions of
citizens by encouraging them to scrutinize how the Recovery Act's dollars
will be spent.
As chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, Kundra raised the
bar by making government data more readily accessible to its residents,
leveraging pre-existing Web 2.0 technologies like Facebook and YouTube.
Federal agencies are now banding... (more)
XBRL Canada Webinar: Regulatory Filing for Canadian Companies in ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro
XBRL Canada will host an interactive webinar April 15 to discuss the impact
of XBRL and IFRS adoption on the regulatory environment for Canadian
companies as seen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the
Canadian Securities ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Canadian issuers bracing for first phase of XBRL
Investment Executive, Canada
By Kate Betts-Wilmott Canadian issuers busy with the transition to
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2011, will also feel
the impact of the adoption of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).
Both the US Securities and ...
RETRANSMISSION: XBRL Canada Webinar-... (more)
EDGAR Online: XBRL's Only Pure Play
Seeking Alpha, NY
EDGAR Online, Inc. estimates that the following number of companies will be
impacted by the SEC's recent phased-in mandate requiring companies to file
their financial reports in XBRL format: The potential opportunity for EDGAR
Online from the XBRL ...
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19 th XBRL International Conference to Be Held in Paris, France on ...
Business Wire (press release), CA
The conference will offer a unique opportunity to interact with and hear from
key vendors, the XBRL leadership and various government regulators discussing
XBRL solutions, projects and implementations of XBRL to provide greater
regulatory transparency. ...
... (more)
Diane Mueller has been actively involved in the development efforts of the XBRL standard for the past nine years. She is the Canadian representative to the XBRL International Steering Committee, serves as Vice Chair of that body, and chairs the XBRL Working Groups on Rendering and Software Interoperability. She currently serves as vice president of XBRL development at JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies. Learn more about JustSystems at http://www.justsystems.com, and contact Diane at diane@justsystems.com. 
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