Speakers Announced for Defense Systems Seminar Boston – August 5th

Don’t miss your chance to attend this intensive half-day seminar. Explore the challenges of Information Assurance in an interactive forum. Login onto https://www.govloop.com/profile/DefenseSystems2009 and be a part of the engaging Panel Discussion featuring IA and cybersecurity experts discussing emerging IA technologies. Panelists Will Discuss: How to build your understanding of the threats to DOD networks–internalRead… Read more »

NIEM Awarded 2009 Intergovernmental Solutions Award

The American Council for Technology (ACT) presented a 2009 Intergovernmental Solutions Award on June 1, 2009, to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) in recognition of the program’s trail-blazing and innovative practices. “This recognition is proof of great work accomplished by the coalition of the willing—by practitioners at all levels of government, especially our stateRead… Read more »

Best of NIEM Awards 2009

The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program is now accepting nominations to recognize NIEM implementation projects demonstrating how intergovernmental collaboration and innovative technology deliver results that increase government transparency, improve performance, and enable civic engagement. Projects must have been operational since 2008 and report specific measurable results. Successful nominees will be those that leverage bestRead… Read more »

Open Government: A Means to and End

With all of the activity and excitement taking place around the country focused on new Government 2.0 (“Gov 2.0”) and open government initiatives, its easy for those involved to get lost in the technology. Those of us that love technology and work with it for a living can get lost pretty quickly in the minutiaRead… Read more »

Ask GovLoop – A Bit About Design

Transcript Welcome to the first installment of Ask GovLoop. My name is Adam Harvey. I’m a web designer in Cleveland, OH. I’m going to talk about design, if you’ve got a minute. When I think about design in a broad sense, I think about how well something works and how intuitive it is to use.Read… Read more »

The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System

Republished from O’Reilly Radar. Blog post by John Geraci of DIYcity.org Original post can be found here Everyone is talking a lot about open government and transparency these days. It’s exhilarating stuff, and it’s even more exciting to see governments get behind it, creating sites like data.gov in the U.S. for the public to accessRead… Read more »

Geeks Invade Government With Audacious Goals

Republished from O’Reilly Radar. Blog post by Mark Drapeau. Original post can be found here Guest blogger Mark Drapeau is the Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Sept 2009 and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010, both in Washington, DC. He holds the title of Associate Research Fellow at the Center forRead… Read more »