Hey Govies! I just got off the phone with Bryan Sivak, the former CTO of Washington DC, a little while ago. We were prepping for this Thursday’s PdF Network conference call (1-2pm EST). The topic is “Digital DC: How to Create a New Culture of Digital Government.” We’re both really psyched for this conversation. BryanRead… Read more »
Authored by GovWin’s Sean Tucker The earthquake and tsunami that hit the Northeast coast of Japan on Friday have created a humanitarian crisis of global proportions. It touches everything, including the government contracting industry. U.S. contractors are struggling to contact Japanese employees and partners, and are mobilizing to help in any way they can. Employees,Read… Read more »
Just after Christmas I wrote a quick post about the prospect of e-petitions for Parliament. Of course, local councils are also supposed to have their own e-petitions systems and processes. My own local council, South Holland, has a system in place (the MySociety one) but sadly it doesn’t look like anybody has created a petitionRead… Read more »
First, a quick disclaimer: I am currently on a six-month detail for OPM’s Open Government Team. Yes, I am bragging but I also want to stress that anything I write on GovLoop is just my personal opinion and does not reflect the opinions of OPM, the Open Government Team, or anyone connected with the OPMRead… Read more »
Many thanks to Will Perrin from Talk About Local, who basically did my job for me in a comment on my last post about local digital communities and economies. The thrust of my post was that having a lively digital community in a local area is a good thing, which can benefit various bits ofRead… Read more »
When I first started this blog, I wrote it because I wanted to share what I knew – because I knew some stuff other people seemed to need/want to know and keeping it all to myself seemed wrong. I joined Twitter around the same time, and there was a big group of people in localRead… Read more »
For those involved with civic hacking activities, the next phase is always up for debate. New applications, ideas and people are entering the space every day. The team behind Kajoo hopes to add a new spin on civic hacking with their application, which was launched over the weekend at SXSW. CivSource spoke with Dan Walmsley,Read… Read more »
Q: what is the best way to use twitter to get noticed and to job search? . There are many ways to use Twitter for the job search. First, following organizations and people who tweet about topics of interest to you is an excellent way to gather information about trends that affect your job market.Read… Read more »
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced version 1.0 of the “Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format” (10 March 2011). EXI represents XML data in a more compact binary format, with a claimed 100-fold performance improvement. W3C see this being used for smart phones, sensor networks, cameras, auto-mobiles, real-time trading systems, high speed aircraft.So far EXIRead… Read more »
Another high profile public official has fallen by the wayside with the resignation over the weekend of the US State Department’s PJ Crowley for making public, on-the-record comments on his views with respect to the detention of PFC Bradley Manning. When you look at this in the context of the resignation of General Stanley McChrystalRead… Read more »