Yesterday, business leaders, educators and policy makers convened at New York University for the NCWIT Summit on Women and IT. The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) is an organization that works to identify best practices and solutions for a more inclusive educational system and workforce. This year, the summit challenged attendees toRead… Read more »
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) launched its first mobile application (app) immediately following National Small Business Week 2011. The app was developed under a public-private partnership with Palo Alto Software and is currently available for iPhone/iPod/iPad with additional platforms to be added soon. This new tool connects entrepreneurs with 3,000+ business coaching centers, 14,000+Read… Read more »
A key reason for my passions for new technologies and models, like Cloud Computing and Open Government, is that I believe they are the key to finally addressing what have been intractable issues in our society, most notably poverty. Hence the Campaign2020.us project. So what role can cyberinfrastructure play? Well it’s as much a questionRead… Read more »
Comparing the tweets of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) with those of other agencies, Greater Greater Washington says that Metro has a lot to learn. The blog praised the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) for keeping riders in the loop after a recent derailment, and wrote: “Social media engagement isn’t simply about one’s successes;Read… Read more »
http://www.citrixsynergy.com/I’m going to the learn latest and great about desktop virtualization tomorrow at Citrix Synergy. Are you going? Let me know what your think. Are you looking at VDI in your agency? What are the drivers? Key apps? Benefits? blog.cisco.com/government
Portfolio looks an interesting idea, coming out of Nottingham City Council. This, from an article at LGComms: We’re launching Portfolio, a web portal that allows public sector organisations to share marketing materials. Councils and other public authorities can sign up to it for free and save money by buying ready-made, proven marketing campaigns. It alsoRead… Read more »
Canada has a widely discussed “Innvation Gap” challenge. They’re scoring a ‘D for Innovation‘, and falling behind in global industry. Since 2001 the country has slipped from third to 13th on the Global Competitiveness Index, from second to 10th in the OECD’s broadband ranking, and from fourth to 13th in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s e-readinessRead… Read more »
Neil has blogged some thoughts and slides on digital engagement that he worked on with Simon Dickson and me, on the fringes of the Alphagov project. (Literally the fringes, we were sat round a forlorn a set of pedestal drawers, brainstorming in the corner of a room at Alphagov towers): #bbpBox_73116962812735488 a { text-decoration:none; color:#2FC2EFRead… Read more »
Image by Lance Shields via Flickr A key theme for our upcoming webinar will be ‘Open Government Cyberinfrastructure’. This refers to the increasingly pervasive Internet infrastructure that continues to grow around us, from the underlying telco lines through to the new ‘Cloud’ software it is running. As more and more open source and open dataRead… Read more »
The U.S. Census Bureau recently announced the “Center of Population” for the 2010 Census. What is the “Center of Population”? According to the Census Bureau, The mean center of population is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all residents were ofRead… Read more »