A large and abundant market awaits US exporters in Latin America. Although the combined GDP of Brazil and Mexico alone stands at over $1.5 trillion, US companies approach the region with skepticism. Real and perceived risk in financing and payment issues is a common reason for placing Latin American markets in third-place when expanding globally,Read… Read more »
Chad Vander Veen from Government Technology reviews the HP Mini 5101 and HP Mini 5102. Check out the video here:
As some of you may know from my time on GovLoop and long standing particpation. I look and write about solutions and collaboration on a fairly regular basis. I just came back from Walter Reed and Ft. Belvoir yesterday and today working in collaboration with the Wounded Warrior Transition Units (WTUs). We are, with others,Read… Read more »
Raw data isn’t always the same as government transparency, said speakers and audience members during a May 25 session at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C. Said one audience member, “there are lies, damned lies, statistics and government data.” John Sheridan, head of e-Services and Strategy at the United Kingdom’s Office of Public SectorRead… Read more »
The Book ‘Theory of Everything’ by Stephen W. Hawking is one book with rich deposits of scientific fundamentals which can reign in on one’s thought-train forever. The emeritus scientist Hawking delves in to direction of time, expansion of universe at a critical rate, ever increasing disorderliness of things and even absolute truths like remembrance ofRead… Read more »
My current position as a Fed affords me the opportunity to think strategically about cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service, as part of a broader initiative to move my organization into a modern IT acquisition practice. One site for SaaS solutions often referenced by me and others in theRead… Read more »
WASHINGTON)—In response to the May 25 announcement that Federal Protective Service Director Gary Schenkel will leave his post for a position with the Department of Homeland Security, AFGE FPS Local 918 President David Wright today issued the following statement: “AFGE Local 918 acknowledges the service of Director Gary Schenkel, and we wish him well inRead… Read more »
The families of federal law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty will be able to receive relocation assistance from federal law enforcement agencies thanks to new legislation approved on Tuesday. The House unanimously passed the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act after the Senate cleared it 10 days ago. TheRead… Read more »
Mark Deckert, Abram Stern, and Professor Warren Sack, all of the University of California Santa Cruz, presented a poster entitled Enabling Peer Review of Expert Testimony Within Government Proceedings at dg.o 2010: The 11th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 17-20 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico. Click here for the poster. Click here forRead… Read more »
Read a couple of articles in Time and the Wall Street Journal yesterday about the up-and-coming trend to quit. That’s right, quit your job! For the last 2 years, people have been reluctant to leave their job (good, bad, or ugly) due to the job market. That may be changing. Reports have now come inRead… Read more »