It is no secret the women’s vote is often the determining factor in many elections, including major national races. It is therefore no surprise, as we enter the throws of the 2012 presidential election, that once again the battle is on to woo women, replete with the usual trash-talking and barbed attacks that characterize ourRead… Read more »
Philadelphia police are packing … smartphones, that is. The Philly police department is arming 15 officers with Twitter accounts, so that they may tweet updates while on duty and interact with the community. The departments communications director, Karima Zedan, claims that the benefits will be that officers will maintain a positive presence in the communityRead… Read more »
The MOTOACTV can bring your exercise routine into the 21st century! If you are into working out (and have an Android smartphone) the MOTOACTV is a device you definitely might want to consider. The MOTOACTV does what a lot of devices (and services) are offering out there – help gameify your workout regimen. The gameificationRead… Read more »
By Andreas Muno Commuting and her virtual sister were main topics of our last post. In our last post of this blog series, we shall look at advantages of mobilized money transfers, how mobile technology may help preventing fraud and abuse or just improve efficiency of public benefits systems, and what other public mobile experiencesRead… Read more »
Carey, Skytland and Cohen by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Thursday April 19th, 2012: The DoD networks — Deputy CIO Rob Carey walks us through the power, technology, acquisition and budgeting of the DoD network. NASA is trying to harness the world’s hacking power for good. It’s part of its International Space Apps Challenge.Read… Read more »
I took great pleasure in reading the release below regarding the reconstitution of the Terrorism Research Center. The founders of the Terrorism Research Center (Matthew Devost, Brian Houghton, and Neal Pollard) are all highly regarded national security professionals and thought leaders who bring years of proven past performance to helping the nation think through someRead… Read more »
Last week we told you all about NASA’s new openness plan. One part of that plan revolves around “technology accelerators” — essentially, crowdsourcing. By opening up its data troves to the world, the space agency hopes that developers across the globe will pitch in and create interesting and useful things with NASA data. That’s whereRead… Read more »
By now, you’ve probably heard of Caine Monroy, a nine year old boy who built a carnival-like arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s auto shop. The short documentary was viewed more than 4.5 million times in just a week, netting him a $152,000 scholarship, a non-profit foundation to help kids reach their dreams,Read… Read more »
In an era of shrinking budgets and increasing demands for high-quality services, productivity improvement is critical to performance outcomes. How can public-sector organizations meet fiscal requirements while sustaining effective performance levels? Tune-in to FedCentral today on WFED 1500AM at 10am to hear David Dye, Director, Federal Human Capital, Deloitte Consulting LLP and John M. Palguta,Read… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Wednesday the 18th of April, 2012: Three Secret Service employees implicated in a prostitution scandal during President Obama’s trip to Colombia last week are being forced out of the agency, officials said Wednesday night. The head of the Secret Service has told other government officials that theRead… Read more »