By Bob Gourley For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I’m incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I’m hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach prevention platform. Capabilities they field include an ability to run software in a totally virtualizedRead… Read more »

Information is beautiful, as others have said, and the City of Sydney, working with Carbon Arts, is now seeking proposals for a temporary public artwork that engages with open data on Sydney’s progress towards Sustainable Sydney 2030. Not part of GovHack, this initiative is part of ‘Sensing Sydney‘ a program to communicate sustainability through theRead… Read more »

I don’t think this has been widely noticed in government yet, but Australia achieved an interesting Gov 2.0 first this week on the back of the Myers disability scandal. The backstory: after the Prime Minister announced that DisabilityCare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), would be partially funded through an increase of 0.5% in theRead… Read more »

This week has been designated by Congress as Public Service Recognition Week, and, as a professional public employee, I want to recognize the thousands of public servants at all levels of government for the services they provide, not just to residents of the United States, but throughout the world. They include aid workers in Africa,Read… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago I decided to run in a race that I hadn’t participated in before, the Wear Red Race in Charlottetown.The race started in 2009 and is in support of military families in need and also to help promote Wear Red Fridays to show public support for our men and women inRead… Read more »

This past weekend as I was checking out the running app, cardio trainer, on my phone I realized that on Saturday I logged my 200th run since I started tracking nearly 2 years ago. Based on the apps map I’ve run almost 2000 kms, basically from PEI to a bit past Hamilton, Ontario (or WashingtonRead… Read more »

Building on the last post, this one goes into more specific detail on what tools a teacher can make use of to create a great class. This means a class that is effective, attractive, and provides a clear path to completion. Rather than use words to convey this information, I made use of a toolRead… Read more »

Stocks ended a positive week with a big rally on Friday triggered by the April jobs report. The report was slightly better than the estimates, but there were some very positive revisions made to prior month’s reports, which may have taken investors by surprise. Here are the up to date TSP fund returns through MayRead… Read more »