The state of California is trying to build more accountability into their information technology purchases. In a policy letter, circulated by the newly renamed California Technology Agency, department-level directors will have to personally certify IT products and services previously approved at lower levels. According to IT Policy Letter (ITPL) 11-01, Department Directors will have toRead… Read more »
When did a multi-million pound operation like a Council become reduced to ‘an organisation which provides libraries’? Some damn expensive libraries. And some abandoned other issues. Telling issues. Like youth centres. Like SureStart. Like all the voluntary sector funding gone. Like rural bus routes disappearing. I’m guessing some complaints might start appearing when the ‘10,000Read… Read more »
Greetings from the Main Reading Room of the National Library of Australia. Building work for the new “Treasures Gallery” and “Temporary Exhibition Gallery” had meant that new serials had been removed from the Main Reading Room to the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room downstairs. This left the main reading rooms with a few token shelvesRead… Read more »
Chris Quigley, co-founder of Delib UK discussed Gov 2.0 over lunch today at Old Parliament house in Canberra. He outlined campaigns run for the former and current UK governments. One interesting point was that contrary to conventional wisdom, there was less legal liability where the public’s posting to a forum were not moderated before beingRead… Read more »
by Damon Regan (ADL). Damon Regan is an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the ADL Initiative. He is currently focused on registry and repository technology for managing learning content. Damon is a Ph.D. Candidate in Instructional Technology at the University of Central Florida. He has an MBA from Rollins College and a B.S. inRead… Read more »
So, day zero for Blackburn with Darwen draws to a close. There will be 500 or so compulsory redundancies and there is no way to avoid them. 500 more posts have been deleted – meaning a total, by mid summer of 1000 posts which will simply no longer exist. What that means for the peopleRead… Read more »
Congress’ Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 includes an array of provisions aimed at helping small businesses gain access to capital, compete for government contracting opportunities, expand exporting opportunities and obtain other assistance to help them grow and create jobs. One of those provisions is The Small Business Teaming Pilot Program which provides grants toRead… Read more »
Web Analytics Rock Star Avinash Kaushik answers this question: There is no tradition of accountability in almost every country when it comes to public service (there are some exceptions like Singapore). No accountability = very little desire to measure. There has to be fundamental massive change to a bureaucratic, siloed, politicized institution populated by non-relevantRead… Read more »
By Dave Worsell, Director, Government Solutions, GovDelivery UK I’ve been talking about snow a lot lately. It’s a hot topic, so to speak, for many Local Authorities. As one local authority recently explained to me recording and reporting school closures is a big problem. Their process for managing school snow closures is as follows: CouncilRead… Read more »
We are at that time again in the ebb and flow of government life when political appointees begin heading for the exit, leaving their jobs for new opportunities. I hear from some federal managers that this 18 to 24 month ritual, part of the natural cycle in Washington and the federal regions, can leave bigRead… Read more »