Leadership

Digitizing the World’s Laws: Authentication and Preservation

A paper entitled Digitizing the World’s Laws: Authentication and Preservation, was given by Claire M. Germain at the 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, held 10-15 August 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Here is the abstract: Many countries now provide online access to statutes, codes, regulations, court decisions, and international agreements. Digital law issues that haveRead… Read more »

Quality and Consistency

The point of this post: Many quality management frameworks seem to be about ensuring consistency – especially in process. I’m not sure the two are as closely connected as these frameworks would have us believe. [I posted this on my blog on OPSpedia, at work, about a month ago. I just noticed that I hadn’tRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 10, 2010

Standards make the world go ’round: Curt Hopkins: Civic Commons Helps Municipalities Share Code Arindam Mukherjee: Open standards is at hand as the main e-governance platform (India) Steve Ressler: The War of Online vs. Offline Gunnar Hellekson: The government doesn’t look good naked Lewis Shepherd: Contributing to Intelligence Innovation Matt Stiles: Visualizing Foreign Business inRead… Read more »

Privacy News Highlights – August 15th

Some top privacy news Biometrics US – U.S. Scans Afghan Inmates for Biometric Database Wired reports on the U.S. military’s new detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, as “an emerging datafarm” where all detainees brought to the facility are given medical exams and have their irises scanned and fingerprints taken to be stored in a militaryRead… Read more »

How To Analyze Use of Twitter and Other Social Media

© Creative Commons adriel [at] adrielhampton.com September 5, 2010 One Saturday, I noticed that my pal Nick Charney was getting a lot of buzz on Twitter while speaking at a big conference. In addition to his fearless innovation, Charney is well-known for his hairstyle, long bangs with a flip. I decided to have a littleRead… Read more »

World Paper Free Day – October 28 2010

I posted an event on here a while ago about the AIIM World Paper Free Day that the Industry Association, AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) are organizing. I wanted to draw your attention to some of the events going on worldwide, and ask if any of you are interested in getting involved andRead… Read more »

Do You Have What it Takes to Change Government and Create Gov 2.0?

As I’ve said many times before, Government 2.0 isn’t about technology, but what that technology enables. When the TSA rolls out an initiative like the IdeaFactory, developing and implementing the technology is the easy part (disclosure: my company has supported the IdeaFactory project). When the GSA implements the Better Buy Project, getting UserVoice up andRead… Read more »

As We Do What’s Exciting, Let’s Not Forget What’s Important

Improving government’s customer service means constantly looking for new ways to do things, seizing new technologies, and experimenting. All good. But as we do what’s exciting and new, let’s not forget that we also need to do what’s important. Like implementing all the laws, regulations, and requirements already in place, for government websites. A littleRead… Read more »