Bill Greeves: As I continue to discuss government 2.0 with peers across the globe, I am happy to report that progress is being made! Specifically, I have noticed that the content of the dialog is changing. For most of the past year, when I was
By: Dan Lohrmann: Discussions on the virtual tsunami of technology challenges and options government faces today, from hot stimulus projects to cloud computing.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released their list of best practices at their annual conference in Austin, Texas last week. I think the entire list of submissions deserves more attention by federal, state and
Read Entire Post
By: Govtech Editors: News and video comment from the editors of Government Technology, Public CIO, Emergency Management and Digital Communities
The Advocate, the daily newspaper in Stamford, Conn., had a thought-provoking piece the other day that raises an interesting question. Many cities and counties are scrambling to roll out applications for mobile phones. Many of these "apps" are
Read Entire Post
By: Mark Weatherford: Musings on the latest rumors and news in the government cyber-security arena.
The Federal CIO Council's Information Security and Identity Management Committee (ISIMC), Web 2.0 Security Working Group just released a document that will come as a boon to government security folks struggling to develop social media policy.
Read Entire Post
By: Paul W. Taylor: Dispatches and observations from the field in the continuing campaign for government modernization.
Gary Robinson has been named the new chief financial officer for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Word of the appointment came in an e-mail announcement on Friday.The move reunites Robinson with his former
Read Entire Post
By: Brad Bowman: National Broadband Plan, Identifying Assets, Creative Solutions, Strategies & Alliances
The lack of communications and planning amongst public/private agencies within our States that are applying for broadband stimulus funding is of concern to many State
Read Entire Post
By: Paul Weinberg: How technological innovations are changing public safety, justice and first responder operations.
Climate change is the cause of our time but it is often hard to convince a whole lot of people including many politicians, business people and even ordinary citizens of the urgency of responding proactively to the overheating of the planet. So along
Read Entire Post
By: Robert Bell, John Jung, Louis Zacharilla: Communities meeting the challenges and winning in the new, global broadband economy.
Listen to the podcast Follow me on Twitter It was way back in 590 AD that Pope Gregory the First made the list of human frailties we know today as the Seven Deadly Sins. These are not the big sins covered by the Talmud's Ten
Read Entire Post
By: Bill Greeves: Exploring government collaboration via technology .
As I continue to discuss government 2.0 with peers across the globe, I am happy to report that progress is being made! Specifically, I have noticed that the content of the dialog is changing. For most of the past year, when I was
Read Entire Post
By: Bill Schrier: Making technology work for a city government.
In 1940 the French declared Paris an "open" city so the invading Nazi Army would not destroy it while capturing it. Today modern cities are starting to declare themselves "open" in slightly more trusting ways, by exposing their data and information
Read Entire Post
By: Indrajit Basu: Digital Community innovations from around the world.
Internet access is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. In fact more of a necessity than automobile fuel some would believe. But it appears that despite the year long brouhaha over the need for ubiquitous broadband access in USA, over a third of
Read Entire Post
By: Carl Drescher: Technology trends and their impacts on the provision of government services.
Every day we read about organizations that have succumbed to the malicious intent of scrupulous coders and hackers. As IT professionals we view the constant onslaught of scans, probes, penetration attempts,etc. as the unfortunate reality of
Read Entire Post
By: Jim Stanton: The new dynamics of communication and collaboration under crisis.
Who would have thought that America's biggest and in some ways most traditional administrations would be one of the first megalopolis' to have a Facebook site for its Office of Emergency Management (OEM)?Earlier this year, Mayor Blumberg encouraged
Read Entire Post
By: Ulf Wolf: Citizen engagement and responsibility in the digital age.
According to a recent report by Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communication, Finland has now, starting in July 2010, made 1-megabit broadband Internet access a legal right, for every citizen. And not only that, an earlier law specifies that by
Read Entire Post
By: Rick Wimberly & Lorin Bristow: Emergency Management Blog: Alerts & Notifications
By: Jeannette Sutton: Emergency Management Blog: Disaster Sociologist
| Sponsor/Vendor Resources | ||
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|