Government On The Move: An In-Depth Look At MobilityAFFIRM’s special event: Mobility Presenters: Carl Froehlich, Associate CIO End User Equipment and Services, IRS Jerry Horton, USAID Kelly Knopf, DOE Gwynne Kostin, Director, Mobile, OCSIT, GSA John Santo, Customs and Border Protection Lt. Col. Anmy Torres, US Army Wyatt Kash, Editor at Large, 1105 Media (moderator)Read… Read more »
Shortly after The TSA Blog turned up on a list of six federal blogs worth a visit, an industry group named My TSA the best government mobile app. Original post
This online service delivery business is more complicated than it looks. The postman came. I was out. He left a card to tell me that there was something which needed to be signed for. That means a trip to the sorting office on Saturday to collect it. Or I can go online to arrange forRead… Read more »
The last talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was Dr. JamesPopple, Freedom of Information Commissioner, talking about the FOIreforms of government and what this requires of the information systemsgovernment uses.The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner commenced 1November 2010. This integrates information management, privacy and FOIfunctions of government.The new approach Original post
Massachusetts is awarding $350,000 to accelerate the planning process for 26 potential new Innovation Schools across the Commonwealth. Local superintendents, school committee members and union leaders, have already approved the initial plans for these schools and the grants will be used to develop innovation plans to be presented to local school committees for final approval.Read… Read more »
Massachusetts is awarding $350,000 to accelerate the planning process for 26 potential new Innovation Schools across the Commonwealth. Local superintendents, school committee members and union leaders, have already approved the initial plans for these schools and the grants will be used to develop innovation plans to be presented to local school committees for final approval.Read… Read more »
In my previous post, I mentioned Baja Fresh had found a simple and compelling way to promote an offer for a reusable plastic drink cup. Before I tell you what it is, let me give you two versions of the same message. I’m going to ask you to pick the one you think Baja FreshRead… Read more »
The Productivity Commission has released a draft Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning, with comments due by 31 March 2011: Preliminaries (PDF – 418 Kb) Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbreviations and explanationsOverview – including key points (PDF – 317 Kb)Chapter 1 About the study (PDF –Read… Read more »
The third talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was by Colin Towns discussed his experience with installing Objective 7.5 at Department of Defence. One of the achievements at Defence was just to find the needed metadata and get it loaded into the system. He mentioned the P.O.P.I.T. strategy. The Institute for Information ManagementRead… Read more »
In Educating for Deliberative Democracy, contributing authors and editor Nancy L. Thomas explore the critical role that higher education can play alongside expanding coalitions of civic organizations, public officials, and everyday citizens in strengthening democracy. At the heart of these efforts is a conviction that persistent public problems call for dialogue and deliberation that resultRead… Read more »