Our current situation reminds me of that well-known adage: "Red sky in morning, sailors warning. Red sky at night, sailors delight." So you tell me: is it morning or evening for cloud computing?…

The U.S. Senate quietly confirmed former Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra as the nation's first-ever chief technology officer on May 21.Chopra joined other Obama appointees at a hearing on May 19 of the Senate Committee on Commerce,…

John Mellencamp sang about the walls tumbling down and this week's press release by the U.S. Army telling bases to stop blocking Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr Army Allows Access To Social Media Websites should be proof enough for anyone. …

There is a new way of talking about what it means to be a digital state.  Its a podcast called The DS50, which is part of the expanded year round program from the Center's Digital States Performance Institute (DSPI).The debut edition focuses on…

Both the 2.5GHz EBS and 3.65GHz bands represent an excellent delivery vehicle for newspaper publishers to deliver their digital content and advertising in the form of an "e-newspaper" that would be delivered to e-readers now being developed and…

Panic and false rumors can accompany disasters during and after an event, probably more so with the advent of social media. I hesitate to be contrary about social media because I happen to be attracted to the idea of emergency responders receiving…

Education plays a key role in Intelligent Communities in developing our human capital and our innovation systems. It helps to create an invaluable cluster, concentrating skilled and creative workers and infrastructure for innovation. The presence of…

Well, it occurred to me this week that it has been nearly six weeks since the MuniGov2.0 group pulled off our very first organized project - MuniGovCon'09.  I'd be remiss (and perhaps flogged) if I didn't do a post on the conference and what it…

Everyone likes to tell success stories, particularly if the success occurred under your own leadership. But we all have failures and make mistakes. Few of us like to discuss them. I am writing about my biggest failure as CTO, hoping there is a…

Setting a precedence for certainly the developing world and perhaps also for the developed world, India on Thursday set in motion its largest e-governance project that aims to provide a unique identification number to each of its billion plus…

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Political dissent in Iran in the aftermath of the national election has spread not only to the streets of Tehran, but also online, where protesters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and observers of the election have battled to get news out of the…

Much has been written recently about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Digital Textbook Initiative" -- announced earlier this month. Hype Aside To be sure, much of this is political hype. The Governor is touting this measure as one way to…

Everyone seems to be getting into the act of building operations centers, including ports. This article, Port of Long Beach Opens Massive Command Center provides a few details on the new center that opened up earlier this year.Port security s…