On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »
After averting a government shutdown one hour before the deadline, Open Government has more of a platform to thrive and become a business solution to Government like never before. Using our new parody, and following the theme of Gilligan’s Island, after nearly averting a “ship wreck”, (Government shutdown), Open Government has potentially become the newRead… Read more »
A new version 03 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 April 2011, and expires 3 October 2011. The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in PublicRead… Read more »
Gregg Zoroya in an article which ran in the USA Today Newspaper on April 6, 2011 wrote about the VA backlog of claims increasing tremendously from 200,000 to a whopping 450,000 from 2009. He said in the article, that VA had expected an increase in claims and hired an additional 3000 employees, which brought theRead… Read more »
Change to the Law As of Friday (April 1, 2011), the following is now part of the Open Meetings Law [Public Officers Law, Article 7, Section 103, subdivision (d)]: “1. Any meeting of a public body that is open to the public shall be open to being photographed, broadcast, webcast, or otherwise recorded and/or transmittedRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— PMBOK Section: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis Process Group: Planning Process Group Question Type: Calculation Knowledge Area: Risk Management Difficulty Level: Easy Question: A risk has a potential impact of $50,000 if it happens. The probability ofRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— PMBOK Section: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis Process Group: Planning Process Group Question Type: Calculation Knowledge Area: Risk Management Difficulty Level: Easy Question: A risk has a potential impact of $50,000 if it happens. The probability ofRead… Read more »
I remember still the smell of Bunsen burners, the noise, the rickety stands holding glass vials above the flames, and the worn, scarred initialled benches we all worked on in our Science lab. It was in science that I learnt something I didn’t know I didn’t know. I learnt to quantify and focus on theRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Austrlaian National Unviersity, Centre for Educational Development & Academic Methods where Professor John Dearn is discussing “Scholar or professional? The changing role of the teacher in higher education”. This is timely as Professions Australia and Universities Australia are holding a Workshop on “Higher Education and the Professions in 2011 and Beyond”, inRead… Read more »
Twitter is quite broken. It begs an interesting question, really. What on earth did we all do before it came along? People are messaging me and I can’t see the messages. I worry it makes me seem rude. I am missing all the retweets of all the interesting stuff that I would normally retweet onRead… Read more »