In an instant, I can always tell what my experience is going to be with a brand, company or organization I am interacting with for the first time. In most cases, I can see it. Where I cannot see it, I can hear it. And regardless of whether I can see or hear it, IRead… Read more »
The country is coming into a restoration stage and it has been expected that the next few years could possibly to experience significant amounts of govt investing and stimulation agreements. This is great information for companies across the country. Major sectors such as security, development the surroundings and technological innovation are quite possibly the mostRead… Read more »
Is equal pay or gender-based wage bias a problem in your workplace? In case you missed it, June 10 marked the half-century anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits gender-based wage discrimination in employment. One might think that pay equity for women would have been reached after 50 years. Alas, this goal remains fleeting.Read… Read more »
National Australia Bank (nab.com.au) Banks do it, utilities do it, even media does it, is it time for government to also do it – drop the ‘www’ from web site promotions in advertising and links? This came to my attention while playing with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing’s new my child’s eHealth recordRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley FCW is presenting an interesting session in DC 20 June 2013 which will focus on the new tools, technologies and management strategies bing developed to help government agencies manage and use their data to gain insights, solve problems and discover new info in their data holdings. Featured speakers include: C. Scot AtkinsRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This guest post by Wayne Wheeles focuses on a topic I’ve struggled with for over a 15 years and shows great promise in addressing challenges no one else has tackled. Wayne is a Network Forensics Analytic/Enrichment Developer at Six3 Systems. – bg For a decade now, many Network Forensics Analysts,Read… Read more »
Let’s look at two situations: A presenter, when asked if said she would make the program slides available to the meeting attendees said no offering this reason – this is my professional work and I will not give away my thoughts and insight. Eric Raymond, wrote about the open source software model (he was instrumentalRead… Read more »
This post is penned by Gabriela Schneider, communications director for the Sunlight Foundation and is cross-posted from sunlightfoundation.org/blog. We’re happy to announce our new OpenGov Grants program to help you fulfill your vision of making government more transparent and accountable. We know how challenging fundraising can be. You start an innovative project using technology toRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley One of the biggest problems in robotics deals with how a mobile device can know, with precision, where it is. This might sound easy to do but it is complicated by the fact that autonomous robots can move all over the place including over and through a variety of changing environments. TheRead… Read more »
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Paul Baltzell, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Indiana. Baltzell and I talked through some of the challenges and lessons learned while implementing a big data initiative at the state level. Like most public sector entities, the State of Indiana has just started to explore big data opportunities.Read… Read more »