Earlier, I wrote on the use of Hadoop in the exciting, evolving field of Bioinformatics. I have since had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ron Taylor of Pacific Northwest National Library, the author of “An overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applications in bioinformatics“, on what’s changed in the half-year since itsRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda More than a Twitter Account: Just what qualifies a person to lead a social media proegram or team for the government? Jeff Levy has been asking GovLoopers about the skills and experiences that make a good candidate. (Of course, this class might not hurt!) Wikipeida Experience Seems to Help. The National Archives hasRead… Read more »
Screenshot of the By the City/For the City web application. The Institute for Urban Design in New York has a really nice application for people to suggest ideas for improving the city. The Digital Placemaking App was developed by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS), a great planning organization. The application is called: By theRead… Read more »
The purpose of our Canada Cloud Network, the market need it is setting out to address, is that Canada is suffering from an “Innovation Crisis”. Scoring a ‘D for Innovation‘, ranking 14th out of 17 countries on an innovation scale, the country is slipping downwards on a number of measurement frameworks like this, such asRead… Read more »
This looks like it’s a good opportunity for community groups to get some support in using digital tools, from the Young Foundation: By practically supporting six communities across England, we hope to understand more about the role that technology can play in connecting and mobilising local communities to act, and to share good practice andRead… Read more »
Business is driven by customers. Customers are changing what they want as new options become available. With all the talk of value buying, I’ve never seen anything beat low price. My ophthalmologist was telling me that his son was enrolled in a very prestigious and expensive acting school. For a successful ophthalmologist, that is aRead… Read more »
“The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today delivered an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations. The staff-level report, titled “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age” [full PDF here or read by chapter here] wasRead… Read more »
I’m sitting at the desk in studio waiting for Steve Ressler, Founder and President of GovLoop.com to come online via Skype….and now we’re live. Steve and his family says he, and his family are “Public Service Junkies.” GovLoop started off as a side project worked on in off hours at Starbucks and now has overRead… Read more »
By now, most people are familiar with Angry Birds, the simple trajectory-based mobile game about birds that can’t fly crashing into green pigs with mustaches and helmets. This game is so incredibly popular that it made the Guinness World Records for being the most downloaded paid app in most countries across the globe. There wereRead… Read more »
Most budget departments that inquire about our operating budgetsoftware use the same software to perform their budgeting that they use at home to perform other tasks. In many cases, jurisdictions are required to use outdated versions of software that is more limited in terms of functionality then the software they use at home. Many budgetRead… Read more »