I’ll be joining my good friends at Learning Pool on the 14th September in celebrating their Community Day – where the UK’s biggest public sector online learning community will be coming to life. The packed agenda features plenty of reasons to sign up for a place, if you haven’t already. Keynote presentations from Dr AndrewRead… Read more »
By: Dave Rosenberg Cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Amazon’s move reflects the ongoing adoption of public cloud services by government entities,Read… Read more »
Two weeks ago the 4th annual Local Government Web Network Conference was held and it was good. Organised by Reem Abdelatey of the Local Government and Shires Associations, the conference is Australias only grass roots event with a focus on Local Government use of the internet. All in all it was an excellent couple ofRead… Read more »
On September 6 at MIT we are organizing an Open “Hack Day” to launch a Code for America project, CityGroups, for the city of Boston. CityGroups is a public directory of community groups. CityGroups makes it easier to find those little, super-local community organizations that work to make our cities better. Features A public directoryRead… Read more »
Amazing presentation by Andrew Zuckerman touching on so many great points, rather than try to list them, I’ll just point you to this video to see for yourself. Andrew Zuckerman from 99% on Vimeo. What did you take away from this video? originally posted on RoguePolymath blog
In what may be a continuing series (Austerity as Opportunity?) witness the ingenuity of the Santa Clara Police Department, who are leveraging data to predict crime like something out of Minority Report: Zach Friend, crime analyst for Santa Cruz police, confirmed to the New York Times that the program led to five arrests in July.Read… Read more »
Join GovLoop and our partner IBM to learn how to use analytics to boost efficiency and cut costs in our next GovLoop training on 9/8 at 2pm – RSVP **************************************************************************************************************************************** I remember the first time I got excited about statistics. I was in an introductory to statistics class and was taught how to use SPSSRead… Read more »
No – that’s not the leftovers from Hurricane Irene. Those are the Winds of Change you’re feeling. The pieces for building an exciting new vision of government customer service are swirling around us – do you see them? Everything’s starting to converge…ideas, leadership, support from the top. We’re on the verge of a customer serviceRead… Read more »
As Hurricane Irene has now passed through New York, the most common terms I’ve heard in response sound something like “overhyped” and “underwhelming.” (All in all, that’s probably a good thing; the opposite would be much, much worse.) With that lens, however, we risk glazing over the nitty gritty of the weekend — that is,Read… Read more »
This month, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system disabled service in an effort to thwart protests organized by the group Anonymous. Although cell phone service was only disrupted for a few hours, experts are debating whether BART violated the first amendment or were simply acting in the public safety. BART officials point to theRead… Read more »