The sweet spot for Heather Schwenk, the Peace Corps’ Volunteer Delivery System Expert, is when the agency’s business and technology teams align and mission needs drive tech adoption — not the other way around.
A June U.S. Government Accountability Office report on 18F and USDS revealed that the groups are making positive changes in government but must continue working to improve in the future.
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Cultivating a community on LinkedIn can certainly be a challenge. A great way to increase your engagement with the wider government IT community is by joining the right groups.
Are you afraid of failure? We all have a little fear of missing an opportunity, losing a promotion to the competition or just getting stuck in a dead-end job. Instead of complaining about your problems, reuse that energy to move around the field so you can get a home run type of job.
As government relies more heavily on information technology to store, manage and access critical data, it also creates greater potential for that information to be misused or exposed. According to one Government Accountability Office report, the number of cyber incidents in the federal space in 2014 was 12 times higher than it was in 2006.
Coordinating health efforts across a large organizations brings several challenges, but California has worked to overcome departmental mission and data silos to move toward a unified agency.
Learn how private sector trends are being used to promote government innovation.
Most conversations about federal IT reforms focus on CIOs and their duties and authorities. But the reality is IT reform cannot and will not succeed without every office and employee chipping in. Here are the key points all employees must understand.
Summertime is less busy for some public sector workers. While you might initially have the inclination to sit back and relax, you should use the summer lull to prepare for when work picks up again.