Posts Tagged: Business of Government

10 Prospective Federal Government Pinterest Boards

This post has been edited to reflect that “Interesting Things for Sale” is a personal pinboard, not an official GSA Pinboard. Here are the Official GSA Pinboards. Last week, the General Services Administration approved the terms of service for Pinterest—meaning that federal agencies could start to use the site to engage with citizens. Since then,Read… Read more »

Governing in the Next Four Years: Contracting

This article was originally published by Dan Chenok on the IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIESSubject: Contracting In addition to managing your own workforce, you will be responsible for managing a large contingent of contractors. You will need to ensure that contractor performance isRead… Read more »

Information: To Share and Protect, Part 1

This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok at the IBM Center for the Business of Government blog. Among my New Year’s reading list were two December issuances that impact the world of information and privacy in government: the White House’s National Strategy on Information Sharing, and the Federal CIO Council’s Recommendations for Digital PrivacyRead… Read more »

The E-Government Act Has It’s 10th Birthday – Looking Back, Looking Forward

This was originally posted by Dan Chenok on the IBM Center for the Business of Government blog. This week, several events and stories have marked 10 years since the E-Government Act was signed into law on Dec 17, 2012. Looking back, the statute shows what can come from a bipartisan, bicameral process around achieving aRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: December 07, 2012

Dan Chenok Strategic Sourcing on the rise in agencies, as required by OMB: Promoting information sharing through standards-based acquisition: Two House leaders look to the future of IT in agencies: John Kamensky Do WE Do This Right? The Washington Post reports that China’s new leadership has declared that meetings should be short and to theRead… Read more »

Center Releases New Report: Mitigating Risks in the Application of Cloud Computing in Law Enforcement

This post was initially published by Dan Chenok at the IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog. Today, the IBM Center for The Business of Government is pleased to release the report, Mitigating Risks in the Application of Cloud Computing in Law Enforcement, by Paul Wormeli, Executive Director Emeritus, IJIS Institute. This report comesRead… Read more »