With growing frequency, cities, counties and municipalities around the world are struggling with an increasing volume, variety and costs of processing their municipal solid waste. Environmental regulations are drawing attention on the plight of existing landfills, already at or nearing capacity, which continue emitting dangerous pollutants and hazardous gases. Driven by challenges of urbanization andRead… Read more »
As the extent and complexity of cybersecurity risk increases, the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program (CDM) has the daunting task of enabling federal departments to store, provide access to and track sensitive data leveraging a set of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools. Many of these tools protect the perimeter and provide robust monitoring, but that isRead… Read more »
We live in a world where phones are more powerful, data’s gotten bigger, and government has become increasingly more digital and accessible. With these technological advancements, it is crucial to protect the data entrusted to your agency. Hackers have gotten smarter and data security threats can come from all directions. Data security is everyone’s job.Read… Read more »
The concept of cloud computing isn’t new, but the government’s commitment to buying IT as a service is a new frontier. Today, about 8.5 percent, or roughly $7 billion, of the government’s IT spending goes to provisioned services such as cloud computing. But there’s still a lot of confusion around cloud that the public andRead… Read more »
What if you could step into a time-traveling DeLorean, Marty McFly style and visit the future of learning? What if Doc, instead of coming up with the flux capacitor, had an epiphany with fresh innovations for learning? In this on-demand training, we‘ll hop on a hover board to explore the top 10 trends that are emergingRead… Read more »
State and local governments face a lot of challenges: shrinking budgets, federal mandates, resource constraints, an aging workforce, and the constant threat of a cyberattack. In our State and Local Tech Trends Virtual Training we share specific state and local gov challenges and show how advanced technology and innovative practices can help government overcome challenges. This eventRead… Read more »
Securing data is tough these days. In this age of data proliferation, attacks are becoming more advanced and securing the network perimeter is more difficult than ever. As agencies adopt mobile and cloud technologies the network edge becomes harder to identify, and harder to protect. Agencies are left struggling with how to secure environments where classified data residesRead… Read more »
Government organizations collect, process, and disseminate vast quantities of internal and external information. And, regardless of mission, they all share the challenge of extracting value from data in a way that leads to new or improved services, better decision-making and policy development. In the era of big data, the traditional model of a relational databaseRead… Read more »
Where information lives and how it is accessed is changing dramatically. The convergence of technology trends such as mobility, big data, and cloud, is connecting more people, processes, data, and things than ever before. This convergence is delivering the benefits of the Internet of Everything (IoE) to government including enabling collaboration, increasing efficiencies, reducing costs, andRead… Read more »
Peter H. Schuck is the author of Why Government Fails So Often: And How it Can Do Better and the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. Other recent books of Schuck’s include Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples; Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics; Immigration Stories; FoundationsRead… Read more »