From BBC News … By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Adapting to impacts of climate change will cost $75-100bn (£47-63bn) per year in the developing world from 2010, a World Bank study concludes. The bank released preliminary findings from its new global study at the latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok.Read… Read more »
Federal Wave is a multi-agency exploration into Google’s new Wave platform. You and your organization are very much invited to participate. Besides the Federal Wave Wiki page, another good place to touch down and discuss things is on Synchronicity. Although there are plenty of Wave-related documents on Intellipedia today (see the links section below), theRead… Read more »
Guest Speaker, Jeff Pierantozzi, CRM, PMP, October 8, 2009, 6 to 9PM, Silver Spring, MD, Eggspectation,923 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910-4402 This interactive discussion is formed around a case study that assesses records policies and procedures in preparation for implementing an effective Electronic Records and Electronic Content Management solution – key ingredient to informationRead… Read more »
Federal government employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program will pay an average 8.8 percent more in health-care costs in 2010, according to figures released Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management. The increase equals an average $5.98 increase per pay check for someone with individual health-care coverage, and an average $12.87 increaseRead… Read more »
In March of 2008 the City of Manor launched a Quick Response Code (QR-Code) Program that allows residents and tourists to “scan” points of interest with their cell phones. The whitepaper for this program is now available at http://tinyurl.com/y98o5po More innovative solutions coming soon! For more information or questions, please e-mail me at [email protected]
The Indication as finalist in IT Leaders 2009 of Computerworld of Brazil, was prominence these days in the Virtual Community of the Legislative. http://www.interlegis.gov.br Interlegis is a program developed by the Federal Senate, in partnership with the Interamerican Bank of Development (BID), of modernization and integration of the Legislative Power in your levels federal, stateRead… Read more »
An essay can have a lot of intentions, but the basic structure of all type of essays will be same. You may be writing an argumentative essay to argue for a particular point of view or to may be doing a persuasive essay to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, yourRead… Read more »
The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), in an attempt to mitigate the effects of the economic downturn and stimulate local economies, has allocated the equivalent of US$30 million to the Community Building Partnership program. Aiming to support local jobs, stimulate growth and improve community facilities, the program allocates between US$260,000Read… Read more »
Some government programs fail simply because they’re not managed well. Two institutions are trying to change that. Georgetown University and Booz Allen Hamilton are teaming up to create a customized Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) program. Maria Darby is a Change Management Advanced Practitioner Expert and a Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton. She tellsRead… Read more »
Last week I tweaked Rep. Brady and his Texas Tea Partiers for whining about the lack of Government services for their protest against the Government in Washington DC. This week I’ll target the Massachusetts effort to change the law on their Governor appointing a successor to a congressional or senatorial vacancy. When Senator Kerry ranRead… Read more »