Government Technology

Blake Harris

Editor

Twitter: @govtechnews

Recent Articles

Daylighting Lab Offers Greener Building Designs
April 03, 2009 - Daylighting also represents the single largest 'new' opportunity for energy savings in commercial lighting today and for the foreseeable future.

Marion County Deploys Web Interfaced Health Alert System
April 03, 2009 - Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. in collaboration with the Marion County Health Department (Indianapolis, Ind), have developed and tested a technology that allows public health officials to abandon a traditional, inefficient paper approach to alerting the medical community about public health crises.

Vivek Kundra: Engineering a Radical Transformation
March 05, 2009 - Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer of the District of Columbia, spoke with Digital Communities editor Blake Harris about his management approach, IT governance innovations, cost-cutting measures and the pace of innovation. Today, President Barack Obama named Kundra the "federal CIO."

"New Media" Policy - A Tricky But Perhaps Needed Measure
February 06, 2009 - In a changing landscape of new media on the web, do local governments need to address how their staff conduct themselves on many popular sites as the New York Times recently has done?

Changing 700 MHz Spectrum D Block's Organization for Public Safety Interoperability
December 21, 2008 - Nationwide emergency responder interoperability a priority.

Energy-Harvesting Radios Could Make Monitoring Safety of Bridges Easier
December 16, 2008 - Kansas State University engineers are developing an energy-harvesting radio that could transmit important data -- like stress measurements on a bridge, for instance -- without needing a change of batteries, ever.

New White Paper Explores Web 2.0 in Government
October 15, 2008 - Is Web 2.0 simply another hype storm created by technocrats and marketers in an attempt to generate new demand for products? Or do these technologies offer a real answer to some of the traditional shortcomings of citizen government interaction?

Web 2.0 and Citizen Engagement
September 24, 2008 - Web 2.0 lets local government organize and interact with citizens.

Jory Wolf, CIO of Santa Monica, Describes Fiber Network, Other Projects
July 16, 2008 - California community was Digital Cities Survey winner for 2007.

Digital Tactics for a U.S. Recession
June 22, 2008 - IT-powered productivity can help communities weather hard times.

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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