In a Federal News Radio conversation with reporter Francis Rose and two other guests – Robert Shea, a former OMB executive, and Jon Desenberg, with the Performance Institute – we talked about the Obama Administration’s performance initiatives to date, and the potential implications for agency efforts to measure performance. Shea said “people miss some ofRead… Read more »
ACCESS DENIED!!! 9:00 a.m. EST – It was a beautiful morning in Northern Virginia. Birds were chirping, the sun was shining, the coffee was just the way I liked it, creative juices were optimal, productivity was running at full steam. I finally found a decent embeddable poll for my blog and was ready to testRead… Read more »
With upcoming and eminent DoD budget cuts, enterprise IT capabilities like AKO/DKO may become the norm. Regarding the current way of doing business, “All of our bases, operational headquarters and defense agencies have their own IT infrastructures, processes and application-ware,” Gates said at a Pentagon press conference. “This decentralized approach results in large cumulative costs,Read… Read more »
Open data encourage transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement, all ideals of democracy. But context is equally vital, and unfortunately it’s often missing from the open data conversation. While individual states and cities have taken action to open up their books, little has been done to regulate and structure their data so that the information canRead… Read more »
Early in 1995 and with a new governor, the State of Maine embarked on an expansion of its GIS (Geographic Information System, for those who aren’t familiar). Then governor, Angus King had a vision. He wanted to use maps to prove that Maine had great locations for new and relocating businesses. Being that it wasRead… Read more »
Nothing but the best content: Benjamin Pauker: The Geopolitics of Google Earth Ron Pringle: Is Your Content Really Serving the Public Adriel Hampton: San Francisco City Attorney’s Office on Flickr Steve Radick: Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives Philipp Mueller (via GovLoop): Citizens Make the State 2.0 Clay Johnson: How didRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio Empire Avenue – Crowdsourcing the Best Content: We interview Empire Avenue CEO Duleep Wijayawardhana about how individuals, governments and cause organizations can harness social media, virtual markets and game mechanics to engage their communities. Download episode.
I recently saw a blog post from Jim Townsend (President of InfoStrat) which did a fantastic job of articulating some of the concerns around cloud computing in the public sector. This is a topic that has been and will continue to be widely debated within and outside of government IT. Rather than pose a numberRead… Read more »
Prizes and competitions provide one way to stimulate innovation and tap “solver communities” that may not have been leveraged previously when considering some of our nation’s grand challenges (see my blog posting from the White House/ Case Foundation event on prizes and competitions in April where I discuss this assertion in more detail). Building onRead… Read more »
Life’s a game, Internet’s a game: Sen. Kate Lundy: Speech to the Technology in Government and the Public Sector conference Kristin Burnham: A Victory for Social Media – Inside the Election of Columbia’s New President Richard Abshire: Dallas Police Chief David Brown urges social media to catch ‘unrepentant criminals’ CivSource: New Open 311 integration toolkitRead… Read more »