Starving children have depended on warnings made by a federal interagency group that has worked together for more than 25 years to help international aid groups by predicting where famines in remote regions are occurring. The Famine Early Warning System is an interagency network among federal agencies and the United Nations that began in 1985,Read… Read more »
Search Results for: Famine
GovLaunch: USAID Famine, Drought, War (FWD) Initiative
Take a look at a new site from USAID. The new campaign by USAID, FWD, is an effort to raise broader awareness to the conditions in the Horn of Africa. FWD stands for Famine, War, Drought, all of which are devastating the Horn of Africa. The website does a great job of easily showing theRead… Read more »
Meet the Govie Who’s Tackling Food Security for Countries in Need
In a world of conflict and finite resources, famine is certainly a large issue that plagues millions of people worldwide. Starvation is both a heavy and crippling topic that unfortunately impacts a great number of communities every year.
The False Pride of Use-or-Lose Annual Leave
Work-life balance is not just an indulgence: it is critical to the success of your mission.
5 Lessons for Government from SxSW
The argument has been made (and made and made) that SxSW is So Over ™. Respectfully, I disagree. It is certainly a corporate event—witness Samsung offering to bring a free, charged battery to anyone whose Samsung device is running low—but that doesn’t mean that governments agencies, whether local, state, or federal, should skip out. Indeed,Read… Read more »
Gov20 at SxSW
I’ll be leaving today for Austin, TX, and this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival. As with most years, I’ve completely overbooked myself, but this is the double-edge sword of interesting conferences: there is more to do and see and hear than two eyes, two ears, and one brain can take in. I do planRead… Read more »
Five practical applications of government big data
2013 may go down as the year of big data and data analytics. But according to a new report by IBM and the Partnership for Public Service, big data has been around since the 1970s. The report titled,From Data to Decisions III – Lessons from Early Analytics Programs, showcases five government cases studies where agenciesRead… Read more »
A New Year’s Look at Government Communications
A message from NAGC President-Elect John Verrico As we begin 2013, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all members of the National Association of Government Communicators – and those government communicators who are still pondering about joining us – a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Government communicators faced some significant challenges inRead… Read more »
A long overdue call to action on cyber-bullying
I watched Amanda Todd’s tragic video message today. Exactly one month and eight days after it was first posted and only five days after she committed suicide. Words can’t possibly express how it makes me feel. But that’s irrelevant anyway. What’s far more important than expressing our feelings and condolences in my opinion is whatRead… Read more »
Will Machines Always Make Life Easier?
There was a time when we stopped looking at machines as making our lives’ easier and started looking at the jobs they were replacing–and, indeed, they began replacing jobs. Some people were much in hate with machines then–except the owners and inventors. My apologies to those of you who develop training apps and sell theRead… Read more »