Sitting in on the Procurement 2.0 session at the Expo, discussing the evolution of the Better Buy Project. The session is being masterfully moderated by Chris Dorobek. Chris Hamm, GSA: – Used IdeaVoice – Top Idea: “Put an end to dump of ‘end of year’ procurements” – Another idea: Work out requirements on a wikiRead… Read more »
Dan Munz of GSA and Peter Levin VA CTO talking about citizen engagement… Some key take aways-Citizen engagement is about making GOVERNMENT WORK BETTER…Not about cool tech, cool ideas.-GSA has lots of upcoming items including challenge platform, citizen engagement platform, and Fedspace coming up. VA is serious about engagement-300,000 employees in VA, 50,000 in VBA-VeteransRead… Read more »
Who pays the legal fees? The federal employee or the federal government? We are able to provide information specific to your position if you are interested. For administrative/disciplinary matters: the FEDS PLI policy pays for legal defense up to $200,000 for any disciplinary or judicial sanction proceeding or administrative investigations into alleged misconduct from anyRead… Read more »
As some of you may know from my time on GovLoop and long standing particpation. I look and write about solutions and collaboration on a fairly regular basis. I just came back from Walter Reed and Ft. Belvoir yesterday and today working in collaboration with the Wounded Warrior Transition Units (WTUs). We are, with others,Read… Read more »
The Book ‘Theory of Everything’ by Stephen W. Hawking is one book with rich deposits of scientific fundamentals which can reign in on one’s thought-train forever. The emeritus scientist Hawking delves in to direction of time, expansion of universe at a critical rate, ever increasing disorderliness of things and even absolute truths like remembrance ofRead… Read more »
My current position as a Fed affords me the opportunity to think strategically about cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service, as part of a broader initiative to move my organization into a modern IT acquisition practice. One site for SaaS solutions often referenced by me and others in theRead… Read more »
While countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK, and others are making good strides around the use of social media and other collaborative solutions and strategies, countries like Spain are just getting started. I learned of an interesting effort underway in Madrid, an effort to make Madrid a Smarter City, and I hadRead… Read more »
Hello, Attia Nasar here. The new intern @ GovLoop. I am currently a graduate student in the Public Diplomacy program at Syracuse University, which is a dual degree program in Public Relations and International Relations. I just moved to Washington D.C. last week to intern with GovLoop. I love engaging in dialogue (online) and tryingRead… Read more »
I was at Management of Change conference in Philly this morning and saw the Chief Information Officer for TSA speak – Dr. Emma Garrison – Alexander Here are my notes Building 30 year collaboration… -Some people hear collaboration and only think of 2009 and on Collaboration defined – a true partnership in which both organizationsRead… Read more »
I will be creating a new Facebook page for a government agency that doesn’t want any ads to appear. Is that something I can guarantee and how do I request that? Christine