Description To meet Open Government Directive (OGD) requirements of transparency, participation, and collaboration, government agencies are using open source technology to power their websites including Recovery.Commerce.gov and NYSenate.gov. In addition to openness, freedom of information, and delivery of quality content to citizens, OGD requirements include: Continually managing the content Delivering content in an open formatRead… Read more »
Local governments look to the cloud, Corpus Christi goes the open source route, with a twist, the Commerce Department wants your opinion and financial fraud victims have a new resource, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Saving resources, having access to advanced features and functionality, and reliable availability and uptime wereRead… Read more »
The Social Network Service (SNS) NING Related Articles GBE101: strategies for business development under the social network umbrella GBE101: Podcasting – becoming a technological native GBE101: Wikis and Wikipedia GBE101: social network sites (SNS) by Donna L. Quesinberry Government Business Examiner On the 15th of March 2010, Jason Rosenthal moved from the Chief Operations OfficerRead… Read more »
“In these tough economic times, business decisions aren’t made in a vacuum. Plenty of outside considerations have an impact on the implementation of any technical solutions. Nowhere is this truer than in a government environment.“Richard Blum, Virtualization for Government, 2010 Understanding the “ins and outs” of server virtualization in a government environment can be difficultRead… Read more »
As I noted in yesterday’s post about the power of Social Support Communities, I recently chatted with Todd Sierer, Product Manager for LabVIEW, about their Social Support Community (SSC) efforts. I also, however, discussed their recent efforts with customer co-creation leveraging the ideation platform from Lithium Technologies. For those of you who are unsure ofRead… Read more »
Originally posted by Craig Thomler at the eGov AU blog. One of the trends with Government 2.0 is for jurisdictions to make more of their information available online in more readily accessible, machine readable and useful forms. We’ve seen the rise of data.gov, data.gov.uk and a host of open data sites for nations and statesRead… Read more »
At 5:30 p.m. CDT, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius presented a new CDC report, Tobacco Control State Highlights 2010, at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference in Chicago. This important resource provides a state-by-state snapshot of tobacco use prevention and control efforts throughout the nation and highlights high-impact,Read… Read more »
Transparency in projects is becoming a requirement for many government organizations today. SharePoint provides a number of out of the box features and integrations with third party tools to support the transparency required. But even before you go about designing the solution, make sure you have your transparency objectives and processes in place. Read myRead… Read more »
Fight for Full Collective Bargaining Rights at Department of Veterans Affairs also to be Discussed on AFGE Radio Show WASHINGTON—District of Columbia Council Chairman Vincent Gray will be featured this week on the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) “Inside Government” radio show. The show will air on Friday, April 23 at 10 a.m. ETRead… Read more »
Full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued from 1937-1975 — derived from the U.S. Air Force’s FLITE database — is available in bulk from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)’s FDsys, as of 13 April 2010. According to GPO, this FLITE file is a text-only file, of approximately 50MB, containing U.S. Supreme Court decisionsRead… Read more »