This is a tough post to write and even tougher to write succinctly. Capturing such a fluid and changing day of two halves in something as structured as a blog post is a little challenging, but I feel obliged to give it a go. It also goes without saying (and covered by many elsewhere) thatRead… Read more »
Ted Nelson, Founding Designer, Project Xanadu is speaking in Australia: Melbourne 4 Apri, Sydney 6 April, Brisbane 12 April.The Computer World Could be Completely Different Theodor Holm Nelson, Founding Designer, Project Xanadu Co-presented with the Department of Media and Communications, and Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney Fish, they say, aren’t aware of water.Read… Read more »
The Center for Future Civic Media is “developing the emerging ‘Fifth Estate’ of participatory news, media, and civic change. Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting. Learn moreRead… Read more »
Subscribe to CEIL’s e-newsletter by visit: www.ceileadership.org Home Focus Areas Networking Podcasts News GOVgreen Products Green Government Update March 25, 2011 In This Issue From the President Federal grant to reduce waste produces results From the CEIL Blog This Week’s Top Stories Featured News Quick Links CEILeadership.org CEIL Blog GOVgreen Podcast Series GOVgreen Videos CallRead… Read more »
This weekend I spoke at the We Live NY Conference, helping to organize a session on Gov 2.0. Slides can be found below. Overall, I think the presentation went really well. I enjoyed speaking on the topic and hope that I will be able to do it again soon! It was also nice to beRead… Read more »
The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »
Last weekend I wanted to read “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt again. It’s been a few years since I had, and it was one of the first books that really helped me to internalize many of the concepts I take for granted today. I was delighted to find itRead… Read more »
Daniel Le Métayer of INRIA Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, and colleagues, have published Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties, Communications of the ACM, 54(4), 99-106 (April 2010). Here is the abstract: This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with theRead… Read more »
This week, the National Academy of Public Administration’s Collaboration Project released a resource on stakeholder engagement that I hope will be useful to Govloopers. Tools for Online Idea Generation: A Comparison of Technology Platforms for Public Managers compares ten web-based idea-generation platforms, many of which we have used for various projects, with the intent toRead… Read more »
Litigious is the word this week. And human services technology is both the plaintiff and the defendant, the winner and the loser. Dell thinks its new mobile forensics solution is pretty sweet; IBM has struck yet another deal with parts of the New York City government apparatus; and there are some positive (fingers-crossed) health ITRead… Read more »