For those of you who have held public engagement programs in California, here’s an opportunity to get your work in front of funders, public administrators, fellow civic innovators, and others… NCDD is collaborating with the New America Foundation’s newly-launched California Civic Innovation Project (CCIP) to create a map of public engagement projects that have happened,Read… Read more »
Webinar June 14: Learn why the State of Nebraska and Cornell University have joined the cloud: Register today.
The following is a guest post from Doug Naegele recapping major points from the recent Mobile Health Conference that took place at Stanford. Doug is the founder of Infield Health, a firm that builds mobile technology to help people adhere to medical and wellness programs. You can learn more at www.InfieldHealth.com or follow @InfieldHealth. TheRead… Read more »
Rob Bayuk (Redmond, WA) — We at Microsoft Education are excited to announce the official list of educators for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 U.S. Forum. This is the 8th annual Partners in Learning Forum, a global program that last year attracted more 250,000 educators from over 70 countries. The Partners in Learning 2012Read… Read more »
Recorded Future, the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, recently hosted a webinar on how their solution can be used for protest monitoring and forecasting, which you can watch here. The webinar, presented by Jason Hines, Head of Federal at Recorded Future, product engineer Steve Shohn, and Shannon Detone, from the partner agency ThermopylaeRead… Read more »
After being away at the beach for the weekend, I learned by e-mail that an old friend, who my wife and I just had lunch with on Tuesday had died. This was a guy I’ve known since first grade. We went to high school and college together. He was one of my groomsmen when KathyRead… Read more »
Congress has posted an online report with a long title of: Senate Report 112-173 – NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 R E P O R T [TO ACCOMPANY S. 3254] ON TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AND FOR DEFENSERead… Read more »
NetApp and Cloudera are partnering together on an interesting Big Data event in the Tysons Corner VA area on 20 June 2012. The following is from their digital flyer: Hadoop in the Big Data–Driven Organization Discover how to profit from ALL your data with NetApp and Cloudera Enterprises are entering the era of big data,Read… Read more »
I have a feeder that forwards news articles related to government to my e-mail every day. It is not uncommon for me to come across a headline that states ”City Council & Mayor Discuss Strategic Priorities” or ”Town Board Meets for Annual Retreat”. I don’t ever recall reading a similar news headline for the CountyRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kasperky Labs finds links to Stuxnet, and hence the U.S. and Israel, in the code for the Flame worm. More here. The 12th Annual Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference is asking for abstracts for consideration to present a briefing, workshop, or panel discussion. More here.Read… Read more »