In a recent letter from the Prime Minister in the UKto government departments, David Cameron reaffirmed the commitment towards opening up public data that was initiated by the previous government in July, 2009 and swiftly followed by the publication of the data.gov.uk open public data catalogue in November, 2009. Today, data.gov.uk catalogues data from aRead… Read more »
The cyber security e-mail lists, Twitter streams, Facebook messages and chat circuits were abuzz today over a new report released from the Brookings Institution. This piece, titled ”Pirates of the ISPs: Tactics for Turning Online Crooks into International Pariahs,” was authored by Noah Shachtman. Noah is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution 21st Century Initiative.Read… Read more »
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Today, the TechAmerica Foundation released its report, Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud. It is a guide for the Obama Administration on “how government should deploy cloud technologies and for public policies that will help drive U.S. innovation in the cloud.” This continues a series of pushes for government toRead… Read more »
CfA Fellow Jeremy Canfield recently published a short piece in UX Magazine, “Why UXers should Code for America,” on the importance of interaction design and user-centric development: Despite its name, the Code for America Fellowship isn’t just for coders. In fact, most of what we do for our government partners doesn’t involve much code atRead… Read more »
CfA Fellow Jeremy Canfield recently published a short piece in UX Magazine, “Why UXers should Code for America,” on the importance of interaction design and user-centric development: Despite its name, the Code for America Fellowship isn’t just for coders. In fact, most of what we do for our government partners doesn’t involve much code atRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Randi Powell reports. Data center consolidation continues to be a top priority for many state chief information officers (CIOs) who hope to reduce cost, optimize IT infrastructure, and pursue green IT methods. While most states strive for the same outcomes consolidation efforts can produce, not every state has taken the same path toRead… Read more »
I first wrote a blog post called “Make Time to Lead,” more than 5 years ago; and I’ve written several variations on that theme since then. It’s a lesson I learned first-hand, as I managed HUD’s web program and co-chaired the Federal Web Managers Council. It’s easy to get so inundated in process that youRead… Read more »
I find that since Google Plus launched a few weeks ago, I’ve been using ALL social media lot less. Twittering less, using Facebook less (I don’t use Facebook much anyway), even posting to this blog less. I find this happens whenever a new social media option comes into my life. When there are no newRead… Read more »
Here’s another of my short What is… guides – this time it’s about LinkedIn. Embedded below, and as usual, if you can’t see it, you can get the PDF from the Kind of Digital site. What is Linkedin? View more documents from Kind of Digital More soon! Possibly related posts: What is Twitter? Next liveRead… Read more »