Nigeria wins bid to host Idlelo-5 Nigeria has won the bid to host Idlelo-5, an international conference of the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA). This is coming as FOSSFA and partners have advanced plans to hold the 2010 West Africa Internet Governance Forum in Dakar, Senegal. In the bid to hostRead… Read more »
A call for papers has been issued for ICAIL 2011: The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 6-10 June 2011 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The conference is organized by IAAIL: The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. A mentoring program isRead… Read more »
Understanding jargon used in government contracting can be a daunting task. I remember sitting in important meetings at the Pentagon, feeling like I was on vacation in a foreign country. I did exactly what most people would do in this situation. I sat quietly and discretely scribbled every unfamiliar word in my notebook. Later thatRead… Read more »
In early 2010, The Aberdeen Group surveyed senior exec’s from 300 companies in North America, asking them for their two biggest challenges in 2010. The responses came back: (1) economic conditions and (2) executing strategies. They then asked “what are the top two strategies?” The answers came back: (1) reducing costs and (2) developing stragegicRead… Read more »
Federal pay debate Our country is in the middle of a deep recession with public concern about deficit spending and now the spin doctors and pundits think that federal salaries are too high. I’m a GS-11 level public servant, and all pay tables for federal employees are public information, posted at www.OPM.gov. Take my jobRead… Read more »
In the last decade, technology has transformed business, media and education. Telecommuting and web conferencing are increasingly common solutions to the problem of expensive travel. New applications like Twitter and Facebook make it easier for people, businesses and brands to connect. Leaving aside the question of paper books, there are few reasons to mourn theRead… Read more »
Last night we kicked off our GovLoop National tour and we definitely made the right choice starting in the city by the bay: San Francisco. First off I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad time when you get tons of Govies together and last night we packed the Minna Gallery with over 100 awesomeRead… Read more »
Implementation of a new information technology acquisition process is underway at the Department of Defense, said Patrick Wills, associate academic dean of Executive Programs, Defense Acquisition University, while speaking at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration Industry Day on August 17, in Linthicum Heights, Md. The new acquisition process, mandated by Sec. 804 of the fiscalRead… Read more »
Human Capital leaders and officers in the federal government, state government and military know that strategic talent management is a critical new discipline, and a powerful new toolset for leaders at every level. Workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding and engagement, learning and development, performance management, succession planning and retention are all critical practices that must beRead… Read more »
There’s been a bunch of discussion about how Clinger-Cohen has been an utter failure – that the rules are too prohibitive to be agile, that government is in the Stone Age when it comes to IT, etc. Allow me to offer a root cause: very few of our Executive Agencies have actually put the CIORead… Read more »