Yearly Archives: 2012

The Year in Municipal Innovation [2012]

What happened this year in civic tech? We recently convened our final Municipal Innovation call of 2012, bringing together civic innovators from inside and outside government for a roundtable review of the year. Here’s what we heard from them: What were the biggest successes for civic tech in 2012? Wider adoption of Gov 2.0 principlesRead… Read more »

White House Petition Affecting Government Employees

I have created a petition on We The People aimed at allowing leave donated under Federal Leave-Share provisions to be considered tax deductible. The aim is to increase leave donated to increase Federal productivity by limiting use-or-lose leave, while increasing the amount of leave available for qualified leave-share recipients to use to cope with illness,Read… Read more »

TSP Talk – Weekly Wrap Up

The stock market was down every day last week, normally the strongest seasonal week of the year, so we found out that strong seasonality takes a back seat to fiscal cliffs and capital gains selling. Here are the TSP fund returns for the week of December 24 through December 28 . The S-fund (small caps)Read… Read more »

CTOvision Big Data Reporting for 2012: CTOs want discipline in the language of sensemaking

By BobGourley This special report provides insights from a our reporting over the last 12 months, including summaries of our Government Big Data Newsletter (sign up for this weekly report here http://ctovision.com/newsletter-subscriptions) Among the many Big Data themes we reported on in 2012, one seemed to resonate the most with our readers– all of usRead… Read more »

Classifying Today’s “Big Data Innovators”

By Daniel Abadi Editor’s note: The piece below by Daniel Abadi first appeared on the Hadapt blog and is republished with permission here. The framework presented provides insight into the very dynamic market around “Big Data Innovators” and should be of use for classifying many other firms in this interesting space. –bg Recently InformationWeek publishedRead… Read more »

Video Use in Gov: NASA Debunks End of World, Creates Gangnam Style Parody

In December, NASA created two intriguing videos to help communicate and educate citizens about NASA. I stumbled across an article on FCW announcing that NASA has recently published a video parody of PSY’s Gangnam style. The article states that it has been received with mixed reviews from NASA personnel. FCW blog states: NASA Administrator CharlesRead… Read more »

Spot the Success – The DorobekINSIDER’s Most Inspiring Stories from 2012

It’s been a great year at the DorobekINSIDER. Our show launched in February and 260 guests later the show is really something we are very proud of. So, for the last week in 2012, we wanted to do something different. We wanted to take a step back and highlight some of the great interviews we’veRead… Read more »

CIO Council Releases Recommendations on Digital Privacy Controls

Post Highlights GovLoop Releases New Report on government technology in 2012 CIO.gov releases recommendations for security while implementing Digital Government Strategy CIO Council worked with NIST and NARA to develop recommendations In mid December, the CIO Council released new recommendations for digital privacy controls. The release of these recommendations falls under the Digital Government StrategyRead… Read more »

Global Communications: “Doomsday” Reactions from USA, China, Russia

“It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine.” – R.E.M. – Okay, so the world did not end last Friday afterall (take a deep breath and slowly exhale). Whew…what a relief. Now we can all take a “time out” to celebrate Christmas and ring in the New Year. That is,Read… Read more »