If the election doesn’t provide enough excitement for you this week, never fear…it’s also DCWeek. “DCWEEK is a week long festival in the US capitol focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds.” Yesterday I attended the session titled: “Changing Relationships: Gov 2.0 and the Citizen” at Affinity Lab. PanelistsRead… Read more »
Last week, the entire east coast was rocked by Sandy. Now, a week later, life is starting to return to normal in some neighborhoods. Many, however, especially in New York and New Jersey, still remain without power, homes and in need of help. Many key decision makers, however, are not geographically located in the areasRead… Read more »
Efficiencies and Government — Is that an oxymoron? Tackling the biggest problem at your agency first is a great way to make things more efficient. But agencies can’t seem to get their priorities straight. Janet Hale is the former undersecretary for management at the Homeland Security Department and now a director of Deloitte. They’ve justRead… Read more »
Post Highlights GovLoop releases new report: Identifying the Promise of GIS for Government GIS offers benefits to those looking to improve social services, public health, and urban renewal GIS helps better understand a problem’s context, make better informed decisions, and to collaborate across agencies in implementing solutions The GovLoop report, Identifying the Promise of GISRead… Read more »
By BobGourley Over the weekend I lent some help to a young man in California who asked that I help get an e-mail to the Secretary of Defense. Although I don’t correspond with the Secretary, I know a few people that do, and I think we got the e-mail on the way and believe itRead… Read more »
The mandate has been set- consolidate at least 1200 government data centers by the end of 2015. With this, government organizations are tasked with driving data center efficiency, consolidation, and if possible, shifting workloads to the cloud. We know data center consolidation can reduce costs, improve operational efficiency and provide more flexibility across your agency,Read… Read more »
When I was a kid, a huge part of our Sundays focused around the Sunday paper. My mom got the financial section and the coupons, my dad got news and sports, and my sisters and I argued over entertainment and cartoons. Now that I’m grown, I don’t even get the Sunday paper anymore. I canRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are today’s top cyber news and stories. While most are looking at the financial, socio-economic and national defense ramifications of the election, Nextgov takes a look the cyber ramifications of the election – Many federal leaders are political appointees, especially in the cyber realm. When the fallout from this election clears, weRead… Read more »
The numbers are impressive- 90% of the data in our world was created in the past two years and 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Basically big data is a big deal and is here to stay. Government organizations are quickly realizing this and the immense benefits, namely reduced costs, operational efficiency,Read… Read more »
I thought the infographic below (and associated blog post) might be of interest to Govloop subscribers. We have created the infographic below for local government. Like many organisations across other industries, local governments have started to use social media cautiously in recent years. Too often, local governments only consider social media as an outbound communicationRead… Read more »