Recorded Future, the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, recently hosted a webinar on how their solution can be used for protest monitoring and forecasting, which you can watch here. The webinar, presented by Jason Hines, Head of Federal at Recorded Future, product engineer Steve Shohn, and Shannon Detone, from the partner agency ThermopylaeRead… Read more »
After being away at the beach for the weekend, I learned by e-mail that an old friend, who my wife and I just had lunch with on Tuesday had died. This was a guy I’ve known since first grade. We went to high school and college together. He was one of my groomsmen when KathyRead… Read more »
NetApp and Cloudera are partnering together on an interesting Big Data event in the Tysons Corner VA area on 20 June 2012. The following is from their digital flyer: Hadoop in the Big Data–Driven Organization Discover how to profit from ALL your data with NetApp and Cloudera Enterprises are entering the era of big data,Read… Read more »
Congress has posted an online report with a long title of: Senate Report 112-173 – NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 R E P O R T [TO ACCOMPANY S. 3254] ON TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AND FOR DEFENSERead… Read more »
At Personal Democracy Forum listening to a panel on “The Cutting Edge of Open Government” Todd Park, White House CTO Open data -weather data -GPS data-health data – hundreds of companies In a fleet of new initiatives, energy, education, safety, impact data initiatives. Awesomeness + magic Carol Post, former NYC CIO Just 3 years forRead… Read more »
I have a feeder that forwards news articles related to government to my e-mail every day. It is not uncommon for me to come across a headline that states ”City Council & Mayor Discuss Strategic Priorities” or ”Town Board Meets for Annual Retreat”. I don’t ever recall reading a similar news headline for the CountyRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kasperky Labs finds links to Stuxnet, and hence the U.S. and Israel, in the code for the Flame worm. More here. The 12th Annual Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference is asking for abstracts for consideration to present a briefing, workshop, or panel discussion. More here.Read… Read more »
Welcome to a Special Edition of the DorobekINSIDER. Chris Dorobek is currently in New York City at the Personal Democracy Forum. The two day conference features 135 thought leaders who are at the nexus of technology, politics, government and social advocacy. Now in its ninth year, PDF has grown to become the city’s largest techRead… Read more »
Believe that communities can take better advantage of key data in their decision-making? On April 3rd, the first-ever Civic Data Challenge launched at the Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It’s a project of NCoC (the National Conference on Citizenship) that will bring new eyes, new minds, new findings, and new skill sets to theRead… Read more »
In thinking about the Next Generation Schedules initiative, I am reminded of Redskins Coach George Allen’s famous quote “The future is now.” The time for the Next Generation Schedules is NOW. In responding to the budgetary challenges facing GSA’s customer agencies, the federal government will increasingly look to shared services models to leverage resources andRead… Read more »