Court rules that selling subway swipes isn’t stealing
A court overturned the petit larceny conviction of a scammer who sold discounted MetroCard swipes to riders and found a lesser charge more appropriate. Original post
Innovation and Accountability in Fighting Poverty
In 2006 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg created the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO). The purpose of CEO is to implement innovative ways to reduce poverty in New York City. With access to a $100 million innovation fund, CEO has financed 40 targeted performance based initiatives. The CEO operates out of the Mayor’s office,Read… Read more »
Admitting the Problem is Only the First Step
The recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, “The Unaddressed Link Between Poverty and Education” laid bare the facts that many of us know all too well, that is, students from disadvantaged households have many more educational challenges that their peers from more socioeconomically affluent households. While economic challenges certainly impact a child’s academic performance, there’sRead… Read more »
Roundtable Promises Meaningful (Online) Conversations
Reading Clay Johnson’s response to the White House’s request for input, I came across Roundtable, a new take on building an online environment for “meaningful conversations” currently under development. From their blog: At Roundtable we’re all about empowering meaningful conversations – between thought leaders, between friends, and between curated communities of strangers. There is littleRead… Read more »
Trends on Tuesday: More Mobile Subscriber Connections than People
Here is an interesting trend that Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life project discussed in a presentation about the role of Web and New Media in the public sector today. “There are 315.5 million people in the United States and according to the CTIA there are 327.6 million mobile subscriber connections inRead… Read more »
How Do You Manage Expectations Via Social Media?
Survey results released in August by the American Red Cross revealed some pretty high expectations for the public in terms of how quickly they expect a response during a disaster. This key finding really stood out: “For those who would post a request for help through social media, 39 percent of those polled online andRead… Read more »
MITA maturity levels in states
Deltek Analyst Kate Tussey reports. At the end of November, I wrote a blog and an analyst perspective (log-in required) about the draft Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) 3.0 document that has been released for comment. A large part of MITA rests on the State Self-Assessment (MITA SS-A), which is used to determine a state’sRead… Read more »
Drones: Coming Soon To The Skies Near You
I know there are all sorts of noteworthy IPOs making the news this week, but the OTHER news item that’s filling the papers, and the one I felt like blogging about here, is the news about DRONES. Drones are everywhere suddenly: first, one drops out of the sky in Iran, then one does the sameRead… Read more »
Relationertia
The relational database has long been regarded as the backbone of today’s government IT infrastructure. However, the 21st century information landscape is rapidly changing and the traditional approach of solving data challenges is no longer feasible. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that the volume of digital content will increase by nearly fifty percent fromRead… Read more »
GovBytes: Could nationwide ban on texting/phone calls while driving be coming?
Most of us are guilty. I’ve done, you’ve probably done it. Yesterday, The National Transportation Safety Board made recommendations for a nationwide ban on the use of any electronic devices while driving, The recommendations came after a tragic highway accident last year in Gray Summit, Mo., in which two people were killed and 38 wereRead… Read more »