This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok’s contribution. Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week has seen a lot of stories about Data–Big, Open, and Social. Ordering Open: Steven VanRoekel and Todd Park discuss the executive order “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Interesting data on social media for civic leaders.Read… Read more »
For Government folks interested in a low cost conference to learn more about Agile and Lean, please consider attending GLASScon, the Government Lean-Agile Software & Systems Conference, 4-5 June 2013 at the Navy League Building (at Courthouse Metro). The cost to attend is $30/day or $45 for both days. We have some great speakers includingRead… Read more »
Edmonton will be presenting their Complete Streets Design Guidelines to their council on May 13, 2013. In addition to the Complete Streets document, Edmonton is also introducing the final draft of their Designing New Neighborhoods Guidelines. Both policies complement and support each other. Major cities like Edmonton have developed guidelines like these to help developRead… Read more »
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By Bob Gourley We focus most of our writings here on the technology community in and around the Washington DC area. This is our base and you readers are our the community we most want to serve with information. We have been in the tech community for years and over time have established broad networksRead… Read more »
Everyone has a comfort zone. Whether it is a favourite book/movie/restaurant that you return to again and again, that old pair of shoes you’ll never throw out because you’ve worn them in, or the route you take to work each day, we all like to follow familiar patterns, and avoid potentially unsettling, discomfortable, change. SoRead… Read more »
“Anywhere, anytime is the new normal for people,” says Rick Engle, Principle Windows Specialist, Microsoft. It’s true, 29% of people claim to be the type of worker that is on call at off hours and in alternative locations. The workforce is going mobile and government has been trying to catch up. Throughout many blogs, interviews,Read… Read more »
Agencies are pursuing a handful of major initiatives to continue modernizing the IT landscape in the federal government. One of the Administration’s pushes within their Digital Government Strategy is directing agencies to look toward cloud solutions to create savings and enhance service delivery. The Cloud First Policy would require agencies to default to cloud-based solutionsRead… Read more »
The first thing I did was look for a mention of “.pdf” in the document, but I didn’t find it. That made me wonder how effective this will be if specifics aren’t incorporated about requiring data formats that are more amenable for manipulation. Yes, I know that many tools exist for scraping and extracting structureRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley DISA has just made an announcment regarding mobility I believe will be of high interest throughout the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community but also with the systems integrators that bring together solutions to serve the federal market. The announcement provides information on implementation guides for both Blackberry and Samsung Knox devices.Read… Read more »