This month, Esri identified that GIS technology has turned 50 years old. Later this month, GovLoop will be releasing a guide highlighting how GIS has revolutionized how services are delivered to citizens. The guide will focus on five core areas (citizen engagement, public safety, emergency management, health and human services and environmental policy), and provideRead… Read more »
I’m just getting started. If you read my latest post, you’ll have a clue without a lot of re-hash of where this is going. That post concentrated on the problem, mostly on the patients’ side. Please forgive me as I slip occasionally into that mode from time-to-time, but I’ll try to stay focused. This isRead… Read more »
In today’s economy, career paths have become winding roads, filled with detours and reroutes along the way. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, today’s workers have, on average, worked for their current employers for little more than four years. Indeed, it is hard to imagine staying in the same career for a lifetime, let aloneRead… Read more »
Yesterday, the third session of Howto.gov’s (managed by GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies and the Federal Web Managers Council) 8-part series on APIs aired. These free, online discussions aim to inform and inspire agencies nationwide to get their data online and develop APIs to make life easier internally and externally. This sessionRead… Read more »
Register Here Continuing Resolutions: CRs in a Nutshell Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:00-1:00 PM National Place Complex, Room 720 1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW –Use the entrance on F St between 13th and 14th Streets Guest Speaker: Judy Thomas, Budget Methods Specialist, Budget Concepts Branch, Office of Management and Budget Budget pressures are increasing the demandRead… Read more »
I am happy to announce a new book “Studying Social Networks”. I was honored to be a co-author on this book with Marina Hennig, Ulrik Brandes, and Juergen Pfeffer who took on a leading role publishing the book. It’s available on Amazon.com in February 2013 and will be distributed by Chicago University Press. In EuropeRead… Read more »
There are dozens of efforts happening in government to transform government into a 21st century model of governance and service delivery. Often, we hear a lot about technologies like cloud, mobile, energy efficiency – but everything we do requires power. That’s where our current electrical grid comes into play. Power companies are essentially “natural monopolies,”Read… Read more »
Can Twitter predict disease outbreaks? That’s the question the makers behind MappyHealth wanted to discover. MappyHealth mines twitter data looking for health term trends. The app tracks disease terms and associated qualifiers to present these social trends. Brian Norris is the Co-Founder of MappyHealth. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program that, “we haveRead… Read more »
IMPORTANT: Federal employees should not access the www.voicesofafge2012.org website or send links or materials from this website with a government computer, on duty time or while on federal property. To do so would be a violation of the Hatch Act. Attacks on government workers and the vital services you provide are at an all-time highRead… Read more »
Hi All — We’ve been working hard on RFP-EZ trying to come up with a system that really works for all the parties involved in small contracting. We’d love your feedback on our general thoughts so far, which are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nm9k5do801umh2u/RFP-EZ%20Product%20Documentation.doc It’s a loose spec of the various products we intend to build, but subjectRead… Read more »