Opinion

An increase in government spending does not necessarily mean an increase in IT spending.

The FCC plans to update the 20-year-old technology program for schools to streamline the application process and refocus on broadband.

In a world of cellphone cameras and pesky citizen reporters, will the specter of our “permanent records” on Google compel us to never over-imbibe or risk doing something embarrassing?

The Metcalf incident is a wake-up call for better critical infrastructure protection.

Regular people from around the country are laughing at, mocking Washington, D.C. Turning such a thing around is not easy, but surely there's hope -- and the tech industry is a great place for lessons in simple, practical guidance in problem-solving and progress that we can use.

Building a digitally empowered human services system will help vulnerable individuals and families help themselves.

The public sector needs to find ways to harness the talent, energy and zeal of individuals who are passionate about the organizations they work for.

The highly publicized journey of HealthCare.gov has major implications for the relationship between open source standards and government technology.

Governments worldwide share many of the same challenges and are using technology to address them.

With the overabundance of CIO positions, the influence of the title has been reduced and unnecessary challenges are leaking into the federal IT ecosystem.

It's critical to give caseworkers and everybody else involved in protecting kids a complete, shared picture of every vulnerable child's life.

Making sure both CenturyLink, phone companies and the cable providers play by the same set of rules will provide immediate benefit — and then the city can start thinking about long-term solutions.

The most successful IT procurements follow a simple formula: Identify a business need, define success and how you’ll measure it, then carefully communicate and reward that success.

Failure to teach students even basic theory behind how computer technology works has several implications—none of them positive. That’s the motivation behind a new push to boost computer learning in public schools.

Yes, it’s been a boon for government work, but it also opens the door to conflict and confusion.

Government leaders and vendors meet to talk about bringing procurement into the cloud era.

This legislation bans government agencies from using drones with cameras or audio recorders on them -- unless they have a warrant, in which case it allows police forces to use them -- secretly even -- for up to half a year.

Information technology specialists have been forsaking the employment of North Carolina's taxpayers and going to work for the very contractors with whom they negotiated complex data systems.