Chennai Metro Rail, under construction in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, will accept rechargeable smart cards when it starts operation in 2014-15. Officials are modeling the system on Hong Kong’s octopus card. “The plastic smart card will be sold in shops like mobile recharge coupons,” an official said. ”Passengers can recharge their octopus cardsRead… Read more »
The Security Innovation Network is a group with a mission. They seek to advance innovation and global collaboration between public and private sectors to defeat cyber security threats. They do this through a variety of focused activities and events, leading to a capstone event known as the SINET Showcase. The 2011 Showcase will be 25Read… Read more »
As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) looks to a contactless future, an agency report estimates that MetroCards fail 20% of the time, requiring passengers to swipe their cards more than once to get through the turnstile. MTA officials chalk up the failure rate to multiple factors. Sometimes the card is defective, expired, or damaged; otherRead… Read more »
Neil Williams writes a great post about digital engagement on the AlphaGov blog: On the face of it, you could say it’s a simple case of government doing something a bit whizzier and more user-friendly than publishing thousands of PDFs on hundreds of websites for people to find, comprehend and comment on by email. AndRead… Read more »
Keep checking our Events page to see the trade shows and recruitment events that MEP will be attending or exhibiting in 2011. We hope to meet you soon!
This article, ‘Fostering Innovation through Open Government‘, from Aneesh Chopra the US Chief Technology Officer, is a great snapshot of the link between new technologies and open models and the policy benefits they will drive. In this case he focuses on the topic important to us all, economic development through innovation. This kind of linkRead… Read more »
You can also read this post on BeltWiki Blog by WhoRunsGov Washingtonians are notorious (mostly amongst ourselves) for talking about ourselves. Our affinity for self-promotion was noted earlier this year when the District was dubbed the most socially-networked city by Men’s Health magazine. Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are great channels for telling our friends andRead… Read more »
During a recent solution strategy session for a very large enterprise, a need developed for creating visual prototypes and simulations illustrating the end-state of the enterprise system to be built. The system, or really “solution” (since the ROI would be derived not only from IT, but also from organization change, process re-engineering, physical and digitalRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the shift from a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’ information economy. The same forces are also changing the nature of knowledge management (KM) – replacing a model in which KM was an activity that was centralized in terms of time, personnel, and location, to a highly distributed activity. ThisRead… Read more »
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post brought up a darn good question earlier this week: Which is more important, the person(ality) at the top of your organization or the way it’s structured? In many ways, this brings to mind the old debate about a coach’s job. Is it to motivate players, inspire them, help eachRead… Read more »