The Congressional Black Caucus is meeting. Do you have a reason to care? Is there any tangible impact on your business, your life? If you don’t know, it’s time to find out. You’re in luck, OGTV and its partners are live and in person at the forums that shape policy and policy makers. With theRead… Read more »
I didn’t want to know. I was behind on watching “America’s Got Talent”, but I had faithfully DVRed each episode. And then I went on Twitter last night… and that was my downfall. There it was… a tweet from TheDailyBlonde that simply read… “America’s Got Talent Winner Michael Grimm” followed by a link. I didn’tRead… Read more »
A Federal Enterprise Architecture Board (FEAB) would provide “teeth” to further implementing enterprise architecture across government. We have a Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) that provides a government wide framework for architecture strategy and planning, but we do not have a FEA Board to govern the subsequent IT investments through capital planning and investment control (CPIC).Read… Read more »
http://www.fedinsider.com Non-competitive award of contracts continues to be a bugaboo of federal contracting. Like weeds, it is resistant to attempts at hacking it back. A recent look at contracts from several departments, conducted by the Government Accountability Office, found that although the level fluctuates, about a third of contract obligations are attributed to non-competitive contracts.Read… Read more »
It’s been…..MANY days since my last blog post. And I feel that I needed to notify the GovLoop community that hey! I’m still alive! I’m still here! Just haven’t been as active on GovLoop as I have wanted to be. 🙁 But I still make an appearance by reading other’s posts and making comments. IRead… Read more »
Just cool, not just cool tech: Noel Dickover: What is Civil Society 2.0? Andrea DiMaio: Social Media and How to Get Rid of Government Portals (and Vendors) Adriel Hampton: An Avatar Picture Worth 1,000 Friends Alex Howard: Tracking the signals of the Gov 2.0 alpha geeks John Moore: For Gov 2.0, tech is the enabler,Read… Read more »
Engagement Enhanced democracy Citizen 2.0 Gov 2.0 Public service 2.0 Parliamentary reform APS Reform Innovation Culture change Participation Openness Parliamentary reform Social media Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Do you feel besieged by buzz words? Does the action match the rhetoric? Is there a big mismatch between those who are passionate about the possibilities the useRead… Read more »
This is a crosspost of: http://www.dotgov.com/blog/ Connecting citizens to their local governments or communities can be tough. This is partly because people now expect to get their day-to-day information in a slick, quick format — from the Internet, and more recently, on their mobile devices. While most cities and towns provide websites to keep citizensRead… Read more »
This is cross-posted from the Tech@State site Civil Society (CS) 2.0 is an effort by the US State Department to galvanize the technology community to be able to assist CS organizations across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to enable CS organizations to harness the latest ICT advances to build their digital capacity.Read… Read more »
This is a post originally appeared at http://nusum.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend/ I was part of an interesting information chain the other day and wanted to share it. No surprise to those of you that know me, I was walking the dogs and received an email on my phone from a colleague who was looking for a freelance contractorRead… Read more »