MBTA expands quiet cars, updates Rail Radio
After a successful pilot, the MBTA is expanding its quiet car program for commuter rail. The agency also upgrade its real-time Rail Radio alerts. Original post
Orton Planning Tool Exchange
The Orton Family Foundation’s new Planning Tool Exchange (PlanIt X) is a free, community-driven website designed to help people find and share tools and resources to support community planning and civic engagement. PlanIt X is written by you and for you – contributions, edits, comments and improvements all come directly from our users – andRead… Read more »
Metadata solution to battlefield information overload
Neil Pittaway reports in Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (March 2011) on ” ISR imagery – information overload”. He argues that large amounts of video information from UAVs and other sensor systems are overloading the military communications systems used on a battlefield. He discusses systems such as the Hawklink used by the US Navy to getRead… Read more »
Call for IT Industry to Help With Autism
Recently Professor Sylvia Rodger asked for help contacting the IT industry about autism. She was to brief an international autism summit on a Proposal to establish a Cooperative Research Centre on Autism. Key to the proposal is to involve the IT industry in the work. It has been long established that those with Autism SpectrumRead… Read more »
ASIO Recruiting IT Spies with Google Ads
It was a little surprising to find the Austrlaian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) advertising for Information Technology staff via good ad-words advertisements on my web site.Previously Tenix/Navantia advertised aircraft carriers on my web site (as I had a web page about the LHD Ship Project) and the Australian Navy ordered two. Original post
Things I would do if put on furlough
I would enjoy having a lot of unexpected time to myself. I would like to be a couch-potato and catch up on my sleep. I would also watch all of those movies that I have wanted to see but was too busy. I would surf the internet while guzzling copious quantities of bold flavor, highRead… Read more »
Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22
On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »
Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22
On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »
Gilligan’s Island-Keep Government Open-A Three hour Tour
After averting a government shutdown one hour before the deadline, Open Government has more of a platform to thrive and become a business solution to Government like never before. Using our new parody, and following the theme of Gilligan’s Island, after nearly averting a “ship wreck”, (Government shutdown), Open Government has potentially become the newRead… Read more »
URN:LEX Legal Identifier Standard: New Version 03 Available
A new version 03 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 April 2011, and expires 3 October 2011. The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in PublicRead… Read more »