Happy Thursday! Army Secretary John M. McHugh has decided to effectively ignore the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy by not pursuing discharges of soldiers who recently told him they are gay. “What I’m trying to do is show the troops that, yes, it’s okay to talk about this,” McHugh told reporters on Wednesday. “IRead… Read more »
The Climate Change Act of 2008 established a legally binding target of reducing the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050 and by 34% by 2020. The British Foreign Office must meet these commitments. Read our Carbon Reduction Delivery Plan, and Climate Change Adaptation Plan, as well as our Sustainable Development ActionRead… Read more »
The US Office of Personnel Management has decided that WE will become the federal governments “test bed” for a relatively new concept called ROWE Results Only Work Environment. News story from Gov Exec ….Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry announced at a White House forum on Wednesday that he is moving 400 agency employeesRead… Read more »
Staffan Malmgren, creator of the Swedish free access to law service lagen.nu, has posted Crowdsourcing Legal Commentary, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. Mr. Malmgren’s post describes how crowdsourcing, involving the MediaWiki platform, was used to add legal commentary to statutes in lagen.nu. Mr. Malmgren discusses allRead… Read more »
From Wired to Share I’ve never been much of a technologists, but communicating about government reform using network tools has quickly translated into a certain level of thought leadership in gov new-tech circles. However, as a City of San Francisco friend reminded me over lunch today, innovation ≠ technology. My driving interest in Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
For the past three weeks I’ve been taking part in something call Local Gov Chat on twitter. It’s a twitter based moderated conversation on the subject of Local Government and various tech and cultural issues. One of the questions that came up this afternoon was an interesting one: “What is the difference between openness andRead… Read more »
For the longest time, one quote from the movie “Gladiator” keeps coming back to me again and again. But until recently I haven’t figured how it applies in todays environment. The quote is this, “Today I saw a slave become more powerfulthan the emperor of Rome. The gods have spared me? I am at theirRead… Read more »
This morning I backed into a discussion about thank you or followup letters. The crew agreed they are good, and then devolved into email or snail mail? Who cares? I think we were missing the real point. I think the purpose of a followup letter is to give the recipient something they want or careRead… Read more »
This is a crosspost of dotgov.com Gov 2.0 is the newest buzzword in government; a term referring to a whole group of new innovative things governments can do with the web. Lately, discussion has centered around what is Gov 2.0 is and whether the term should be even used, since most citizens don’t understand it.Read… Read more »
I had the pleasure of spending last Friday and Saturday with a great group of doers and thought leaders at Open Gov West. I’m going to try to sum up some of my major take-aways from the Open Gov Regional Standards and Seamless Data panels and facilitated discussion. Let me just note that this panelRead… Read more »