I’ve just watched the web explode as someone finally put ‘Apple are collecting data on your whereabouts’ into terms a layman could understand. I could have added ‘without you knowing about it’ but you know what? I’m going to take a guess here and say if any of us had bothered to read the UserRead… Read more »
“Folks, I have some good news and I have some bad news” the pilot announced. “We have landed in Atlanta way early, but there is a plane at our gate and it will be about 20 minutes before they move.” Throughout the plane you could hear the moans and comments about the airline’s inability toRead… Read more »
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could carry a pocket-sized reference tool with information for all the upcoming events in your city or town — something you could whip out at a moment’s notice, in case you forgot the dates for the Art Festival or the location of the new Farmer’s Market? You wouldn’t haveRead… Read more »
What if the President and Congress made spending decisions based on what they wanted to achieve rather than on individual agencies and programs? That’s the premise of portfolio budgeting. Has its time arrived or is it still . . . A Pipe Dream? Maybe, but it is actually being done by other countries, such asRead… Read more »
INPUT Analyst Stephen Moss recaps the National Conference of State Legislatures. Bringing legislators, policy experts, and lobbyists together, the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Spring Forum convened last week in Washington D.C. One panel focused on transforming rural health through technology and aptly illustrated the role technology will play in policy formation and improved healthRead… Read more »
What if the world’s largest economy somehow formed a partnership with one of the world’s greenest countries? What kinds of great green ideas and field-tested technologies would be shared, compared and implemented? How much mutual benefit would these two countries derive from this exchange? It seems as though we’re about to find out. The SwedishRead… Read more »
It has not been an easy time for federal employees, with the pay freeze, attacks on the public sector, budget cutbacks and then the threat of a government shutdown. To add insult to injury, hundreds of thousands of federal workers were told on the eve of the possible shutdown they were non-essential, not exactly anRead… Read more »
Interview with Peter Christensen, Commercialization Manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Welcome back to another edition of CEIL’s Federal Sustainability and Green Government Podcast. In our latest episode, we chat with Peter Christensen, Commercialization Manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Peter is an electrical power systems engineer by training and worked for many yearsRead… Read more »
SWIPE FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hill reports. “Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) has reaped a windfall in contributions from banks and lobbyists since introducing legislation to delay new regulations on debit-card swipe fees.” LIMIT ON ANONYMOUS DONATIONS? Politico reports. “The Obama administration is considering a number of measures to compel disclosure of the kind of anonymousRead… Read more »
Senior Analyst Chris Cotner recaps last week’s state and local executive breakfast in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those in attendance at INPUT’s North Carolina State and Local Executive Breakfast in Raleigh on April 15, 2011, future IT business prospects with state and local governments are certainly improved after the presentations from the CIOs in theRead… Read more »