5 Considerations for Resilience at Your Agency
Government resilience anticipates the unknown, but being resilient hinges on certain qualities: specifically, imagination and responsiveness.
Posts Tagged: Virginia
Talking Tech? Focus on the Outcome
When many top technologists and data scientists discuss what they do, the first words out of their mouths won’t be about the technical daily grind.
A New Normal Means New Security Trends
Even with the sudden shift of circumstance, security experts had already foreseen the eventual need for distributed, remotely applied security.
The Biggest Threat to Cybersecurity? Ourselves
A lot goes into an effective cybersecurity strategy, but many rank-and-file, business-side employees are often surprised at their centrality to defending against cyber threats.
Big Data – What’s The Big Deal?
Data can be hard to get excited about if it’s just sitting on a website, in a graph, or on a worksheet. What’s the big fuss? In today’s GovLoop training ‘Get In The Data Game’, the closing keynote shared an example of how to actually use that big data to help the government do its jobRead… Read more »
Is Virginia Paving the Way for BYOD?
Public and private companies alike have been wrestling with the pros and cons of BYOD for a while now, but the state of Virginia is pushing forward to not only have some of its agencies adopt BYOD policies, but to make it statewide. The Virginia Technologies Agency (VITA) “has established a platform for bringing stateRead… Read more »
John Boyer and His World Regions Class at Virginia Tech Request a Visit From President Barack Obama
If you’re the President, can you say no to this? Of course not!! 🙂 Have a great rest of your weekend!! 🙂
2012 Digital Counties Winners Announced: Fairfax County, VA
Yesterday, the Center for Digital Government and the Digital Communities program announced the winning counties in this year’s survey competition to identify leaders in the digital field. Four winners were named in various population categories. These four leading communities implemented new initiaties this year that created positive results and cost savings for, despite scarce funding.Read… Read more »
Political Leaders (Sort of) Address Changing Face of Government Business
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending a Tech Town Hall hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and Microsoft. The event brought together Virginia U.S. Senate candidates George Allen and Tim Kaine, along with a number of business leaders like Jim Sheaffer, President, North American Sector, CSC; Dendy Young, Managing Partner, McLeanRead… Read more »
Virginia launches advanced directives registry
Residents of Virginia will now have a new option to help with their end of life planning. The Commonwealth and Microsoft have partnered to create an Advance Health Care Directive Registry (AHCDR). Residents can create an advanced health care directive free of charge and have it available online no matter where they are. Documents inRead… Read more »