Good morning, Fellow GovLoopers! Dan Chenok posted his thoughts on the FY 2012 IT Budget on the Business of Government Blog. I thought I’d share the highlights here (though you really should read the whole thing!) As occurs each year, the President’s Budget Proposal includes a Chapter on IT spending – it’s in the “AnalyticalRead… Read more »
Two months after launching a Facebook page, the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited has yet to see the kind of customer feedback it expected. Original post
IWD has never even been on my radar prior to this year. I didn’t know there was one. Normally, I don’t like celebrating differences. Times, however, have changed, and so have I. Today will be spent pitching a presentation to someone in Childrens Services to see if it’s good enough to present to the ChildrenRead… Read more »
There are media reports that CSIRO is seeking a deal with NBN in the next three months for use of their Ngara long range high speed wireless broadband technology. The claim is that just a firmware and antenna upgrade is required to mobile phone LTE base station technology to make it usable.If this is true,Read… Read more »
Professor Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore will speak on “Records Retention: Addressing Insider Threats to Data Integrity” at University of Sydney 15 March and the Australian National University in Canberra, 16 March 2011. I have encouraged my e-records students to attend.ANU College of Engineering and Computer OriginalRead… Read more »
what the kids want We’ve just finished up another Local by Social, this time for the North East. We were hosted by Sunderland council at Southwick Community Primary School. We had an amazing range of speakers. We had some really cool ideas developed by parents of kids at the school beforehand – and the eventRead… Read more »
Over the weekend, I learned about LexPop, a new wiki-based site that invites participants to collaboratively craft public policy on any issue (see their current project: Policy Drive: MA Net Neutrality). From the about page (emphasis theirs): Just as pamphlets were once the most efficient and effective means for distributing ideas, so too was thisRead… Read more »
How comfortable do you feel without a Cell phone? A G.P.S. ? An iPhone/Droid multi function device ? Would you take a trip out of state without a cell phone or G.P.S. ? Some people do. No cell phone and just a AAA map. What if, god forbid, Google went down for two days ?Read… Read more »
Sitting here at NAPA headquarters in the same room as OPM Director John Berry and many other influential people in government as well as education. Stay tuned for notes in an ongoing basis: Panel Discussion 1- Holding the Pathways Programs Accountable for the Future Leadership and Human Capital Needs of the Federal Gov “Pathways toRead… Read more »
Have you ever forgotten to take the garbage or recycling out? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone sent you a reminder the night before, or the morning of? Maybe an email, or an SMS, or even a phone call? Now you can set it up so somebody does. Us. Introducing Recollect: the garbage and recyclingRead… Read more »