Patrick Stingley

The unions help the government because they
solve a lot of problems before they become
litigious.

Andrew, you bring up some good points. I don’t think that Open Government or Gov 2.0 are primarily tied to technology. They can be done without technology. In regard to Open Government, the government’s been publishing its proceedings for hundreds of years. It used to do that primarily with books (which are technology, I will admit), but now it…[Read more]

Gov 2.0 is a portmanteau word created by combining Web 2.0 and government. Web 2.0 is differentiated from Web 1.0 in that the latter is a one-way dissemination of value; the publish and forget model. Open Government falls into the Web 1.0 category. Web 2.0, has a different use case, wherein the consumer (i.e.; the citizenry) take the content from…[Read more]

Cloud computing for the Federal Government provides more of a disaster avoidance scenario than a new vulnerability. Most cloud providers provide redundancy co-located with between 3 and 6 IXPs (Internet Exchange Points). Really, how many of our organizations actually have even a single viable COOP site, much less two or three?

By reducing the…[Read more]