Happy Thursday! A leading Republican lawmaker is raising concerns that potential whistleblowers at the Transportation Security Administration aren’t getting the help they need, after his office tried several times to reach agency officials that are supposed to deal with such issues. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) reached out to TSA officials on Thursday, saying he’sRead… Read more »
Amongst the many papers presented at the Ethicomp 2010 conference was one by Georgia Foteinou, consultant on e-government within the EU and new member states, and researcher at Oxford. Her paper is entitled “E-exclusion and the gender digital divide“. Georgia has examined the available data from Cap Gemini’s exercises on behalf of the EU, whichRead… Read more »
You can’t go a day without seeing a news article, blog post or tweet about the growth of social media. Many advisors, agents, firms and government agencies have already experienced the power of this new channel while many others are just getting started. In the financial sector, with the recent clarification from FINRA there isRead… Read more »
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Below is an updated version of the old Acquisition Manifesto. Manifesto wasn’t really applicable to what this project turned into, so the title has been changed. In addition, new rules of thumb have been added and the list is now alphabetized. However, I think there may be too many categories, so some may need toRead… Read more »
NextGov’s Aliya Sternstein just wrote an article about the debate that Adobe’s Rob Pinkerton set off earlier this week. If you are following this discussion, check it out. Sunlight Foundation’s Clay Johnson also weighed in.
I had the honor of chatting with the Boston SPIN group yesterday during their monthly meeting. The group, primarily engineering minded professionals, developers, QA, project managers, turned out to hear me discuss the topic of extending thought leadership positions via social media. Now, to be honest with you, I had expected to have a smallRead… Read more »
Over the past few months, many participants in #localgovchat have suggested government agencies are ready or should at least strongly consider having their frontline staff – the ones who answer questions on the phone, at the counters and via email everyday – start tweeting to citizens as a customer service option. Why not? They apparentlyRead… Read more »
In many cities, neighborhood councils have been established through a mix of citizen-up voluntary and government-led activities. Often established as non-profits, the resulting entities experiment with a mix of models and activities. My sense is that below the radar, often unregulated by open meeting laws or broadcast communication models, many are experimenting with social mediaRead… Read more »
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship and Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law have posted A Framework for Enriched, Controlled, On-line Discussion Forums for eGovernment Policy Making (2010), a paper submitted for EGOV 2010. The paper arises from the EU projectRead… Read more »