Building resiliency and adaptability into the nation’s infrastructure: A conversation with Steve Moddemeyer

According to Steve Moddemeyer, a former senior advisor to Seattle Public Utilities and the city’s Department of Planning and Development, new paradigm shifts in government service delivery and infrastructure management are leading more officials to consider sustainable solutions. In a conversation with Mr. Moddemeyer, he told CivSource that governments can no longer afford to approachRead… Read more »

Deep and meaningful e-learning

Akyol and Garrison discuss deep and meaningful e-learning in their paper ” Understanding cognitive presence in an online and blended community of inquiry: Assessing outcomes and processes for deep approaches to learning”. They found that higher “cognitive presence” results in better course results and more student satisfaction. Higher-order learning can be achieved online through anRead… Read more »

Recap of the Government Big Data Forum of 26 Jan 2011

On 26 January 2011 government IT professionals, federally-focused systems integrators and IT vendors met in the Government Big Data Forum to dialog on issues of common concern on the topic of overwhelming data. This event, sponsored by Carahsoft, included presentations, discussions, panels and a tech expo all focused on the issue of “Big Data” inRead… Read more »

To those without snow days….Thank You

Cross-Posted at Gov In The Trenches So, as many of you know I am not from Chicago – I am from Texas. Texas – a land with no blizzards..or snowocalypses … or snOMG … or whatever other cute names you can come up with for seriously freezing cold, wind that blows people off the street,Read… Read more »

Use of Telecommuncations and Effect of Tropical Cyclone Yasi

Had a call from Channel 7 asking me to talk to the Sunrise team (“Mel” and “Kochi”) at 3pm about the effect Tropical Cyclone Yasi will have on telecommunications and how it will be used to deal with the emergency.WebsitesOne topic is how websites can be used to provide information for people to prepare forRead… Read more »

Weekly Activity Highlights for January 23-29, 2011

http://www.ci.arcadia.ca.us/docs/weekly_1-23.pdf Original post

Broadband for a Broad Land Draft Submission to the Australian Parliament

The Australian Parliament has invited submissions for an Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network by 5 February 2011. Here is the second draft of a submission for the enquiry. In the previous draft I addressed two issues: the environmental costs and benefits of the NBN and the role of electronicRead… Read more »

Deliberative Democracy Workshop: February 3-5, 2011 in Sydney, Australia

In case you haven’t seen, there’s a very interesting event coming up this week. The Deliberative Democracy Workshop “Connecting Research and Practice” will take place February 3-5, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. An invited workshop, it will bring together some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this field from around the world. The expected keyRead… Read more »

GSA Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct

The Multiple Award Schedule program recently completed a contract-wide rollout of contract Solicitation updates, termed by GSA as a “Refresh”, and an important new clause that I recently blogged about has been incorporated into every MAS contract. The new FAR clause is becoming increasingly familiar amongst GSA contractors, though many don’t know that it isRead… Read more »

The Multi-Generational Workplace

Okay, I know I’m dating myself, but have you ever led a staff meeting and realized that it was clear that a good chunk of the people there had no clue what you were talking about when you alluded to Howdy Doody, Tonto or Slinkies? Or when new staff seems to be more absorbed inRead… Read more »

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