links to government policies affecting social media

Here's a list of resources that apply to the policies affecting the government's use of web 2.0 technologies. I received an IT policy report yesterday and condensed the links from within here:

Anti-Deficiency Act
States proper uses and direction of government funding.

Copyright.gov
Devoted to protecting creative rights.

E-Government Act
Enhances the management and promotion of electronic government services.

Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency (also useful: Commonly Asked Questions and Answers Regarding Executive Order 13166)

The scope of this requirement encompasses all “Federally conducted programs and activities.” Anything an agency does, including using Web 2.0 technologies to communicate and collaborate with citizens, falls under the reach of the mandate. Under this Executive Order, agencies must determine how much information they need to provide in other languages based on an assessment of customer needs.

FACA: The Federal Advisory Committee Act
The FACA database is used by Federal agencies to continuously manage an average of 1,000 advisory committees government-wide This database is also used by the Congress to perform oversight of related Executive Branch programs and by the public, the media, and others, to stay abreast of important developments resulting from advisory committee activities.

Government Paperwork Reduction Act
Aims to minimize the paperwork burden associated with doing business with or within the Federal Government.

Implications of Recent Web Technologies for NARA Web Guidance
Explores some of the issues that characterize web technology and its impact on records management.

Information Quality Act, Pub. L. No. 106-554
States that quality of content should be ensured because the public places a high degree of trust in .gov content and considers it an authoritative source.

NIST Special Publication 800-39: Managing Risk from Information Systems: An Organizational Perspective
and
NIST Special Publication 800-53: Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems
These publications address security. Agencies are required to provide adequate security controls to ensure information is resistant to tampering, to preserve accuracy, to maintain confidentiality as necessary, and to ensure that the information or service is available as intended by the agency and as expected by users.

NIST Special Publication 800-63: Electronic Authentication Guideline
This publication from NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) reports on research, guidance, and outreach efforts in computer security and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.

OMB Circular A-130: Management of Federal Information Resources
Discusses that alternative strategies to distribute information available on Web 2.0 technologies should be developed alongside any utilization of Web 2.0 tools.

OMB Memo M-03-22: Guidance for Implementing the Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002
This memo centers on the privacy issues encountered with the government's use of web technologies. Federal public websites are required to conduct privacy impact assessments, post privacy policies on each website, post a “Privacy Act Statement” that describes the agency’s legal authority for collecting personal data and how the data will be used, and post privacy policies in a standardized machine readable format such as Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or P3P.

Policy also mandates that Federal websites are prohibited from using persistent cookies and other web tracking methods unless their use has been approved by an agency head or designated agency sub-head, for a compelling need. When approved in this fashion, agencies must post clear notice of the nature of the information collected in the cookies, the purpose and use of the information, whether or not and to whom the information will be disclosed, and the privacy safeguards applied to the information collected.

OMB Memo M-04-04: Expanded Electronic Government (E-Gov) President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Scorecard Cost, Schedule and Performance Standard for Success
This memorandum provides additional information on the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Expanded Electronic Government (E-Gov) initiative and the standard for success concerning cost, schedule, and performance goals.

OMB M-04-26: Ethical use of technology
Federal employees should act ethically in their use of technology and are also bound by their agency’s “Limited Personal Use of Information Technology” policy. Agencies are required to monitor employee use of these technologies and enforce individual compliance with agency policies.

OMB Memo M-05-04 Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites
Many Web 2.0 services are hosted outside government websites. These services include popular media sharing services such as YouTube. If users are connected to these sites from Government websites using hyperlinks, agencies are required to establish and enforce explicit agency-wide linking policies that set out management controls for linking beyond the agency to outside services and websites. Typically the user is notified they are leaving the Government website.

Agency public websites are required, to the extent practicable and necessary to achieve intended purposes, to provide all data in an open, industry standard format that permits users to aggregate, disaggregate, or otherwise manipulate and analyze the data to meet their needs. Agencies need to ensure that these open industry standard formats are followed to maximize the utility of their data.

OMB Memo M-06-02 : Improving Public Access to and Dissemination of Government Information
Accessibility of information according to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act: Agencies employing non-Federal Web 2.0 services are required to ensure that persons with disabilities have either accessible access to those services or equivalent access to the information disseminated on those services.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act:
This Act requires access to electronic and information technology procured by Federal agencies.

Webcontent.gov -- the government's portal to web-related information and activities.