Government Technology

Kevin Merritt

Contributing Writer

Kevin Merritt is CEO and founder of Socrata Inc. Merritt focuses on enabling national, state and local governments to achieve new levels of transparency and citizen participation while significantly lowering the costs of serving online data.

Twitter: @govtechnews

Recent Articles

An Economic Argument for Cloud Computing
October 21, 2009 - The government is about to open up vast data stores for public consumption. It should be done in the cloud, says one industry expert.

Collaboration for the Public Sector



Collaborative Justice: Transforming Criminal Justice Services Through Unified Collaboration
This issue brief examines video collaboration in every stage of the human justice process, demonstrating how this technology can not only make services more efficient, affordable, and accessible.

Cloud-Based Services Accelerate Public Sector Adoption of Video Collaboration
Today, thanks to new cloud technologies and high-quality networks, mobile video services - which provide not only cost savings but which help governmental interactions become more efficient - are more feasible than ever before.

Modernization as a Service: Acquiring IT through Innovative Procurement

Five Ways Collaboration is Driving Government Performance

Mobile Video Collaboration: The New Business Reality