One of the headline sections of our Open Government Canada webinar will be the CMS Showcase. These will introduce the core building block of an Open Gov program, the Web CMS (Content Management System). For example Drupal, Joomla, Plone, RedDot, and many others. We’ll be covering these apps, their cool features and what’s the relevanceRead… Read more »
After losing up to $15 million a year from missing, stolen, and resold U-Passes, TransLink (BC) is threatening to cancel the student pass program. This year the agency provided about 80,000 U-Passes to students at six Vancouver-area colleges and universities at a discounted rate of $30 per month; the non-transferable passes are good for travelRead… Read more »
John Mayer of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has posted The Free Law Reporter – Open Access to the Law and Beyond, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Mayer describes The Free Law Reporter, CALI’s new free and open databaseRead… Read more »
The first ever SharePoint Conference for State Department staff was held Monday, May 16, and featured SharePoint evangelist Dux Raymond Sy as keynote speaker. The Conference theme, “Share the Power,” appropriately characterized all aspects of the event. The organizing tasks were shared by staff from the Bureau of Information Resource Management (the techies), Foreign ServiceRead… Read more »
$30 billion in financing for 28 projects that create or save 61,000 jobs. Those are the three most striking numbers reported by the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office recently. Of course, the numbers only tell one type of story. The ‘meat’ of this program is in what these projects will leave behind: the greenRead… Read more »
Seattle is pushing broadband providers to bring service to its Pioneer Square neighborhood. The city is a new construction project as an opportunity to lay conduit pipes for broadband providers to lease and bring service to the area. The pipes are for fiber-optic service or broadband which is nearly 100 times faster than DSL whichRead… Read more »
In “How To Get Into Project Management“, I talked about how a 4-year degree is usually the minimum standard for most project management roles. “So what if I don’t have a 4-year degree?” That was a question I received in response to the video, and it’s a good one. I suggest you go after yourRead… Read more »
Hack for Change will bring together 50 engineers and designers for 24 hours to build applications to generate positive change. Change.org is sponsoring the June 18-19 hackathon in partnership with Mashable and Code for America. “The smartest people in the world are focused on problems that don’t really matter,” said Change.org founder Ben Rattray. “WhatRead… Read more »
INPUT Analyst Kate Tussey reports. In the world of health care, it seems federal funding is ever flowing. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a round of health insurance exchange establishment grants to Indiana, Rhode Island, and Washington state, totaling an estimated $35 million. Washington state is receiving $23 million, whichRead… Read more »
In Episode 19 of the Green Government Podcast we talk with Kevin Kampschroer, Director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings at the U.S. General Services Administration. Kevin has created the framework for which GSA responds to the challenges of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s mandate toRead… Read more »