Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — How good are Federal government Chief Information Officers (CIOs) at social media? That was the question posed by media company MeriTalk in their recent study, named sCIOal Circle (get it?). According to the study (registration required), this is the first of an annual series of analyses. Thus, before the nextRead… Read more »
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Strong governance yields savings for federal CIOs
CIOs in both the private and public sector are under the gun to do more with less. Agency CIOs, especially, must reduce costs, as directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in August 2011. The OMB, for its part, expected agency heads to submit budgets that cut at least 5 percent from thisRead… Read more »
CIO.gov Report Highlights Barriers and Gaps to Mobile Adoption in Federal Government
A recent blog on CIO.gov highlights a new report on mobile technology, if you haven’t checked out the report, be sure to take a look. You can find the full report here. The report provides insights on mobile technology and makes recommendations to encourage adoption of mobile technology that reduces costs and provides security forRead… Read more »
CIO Council Releases Recommendations on Digital Privacy Controls
Post Highlights GovLoop Releases New Report on government technology in 2012 CIO.gov releases recommendations for security while implementing Digital Government Strategy CIO Council worked with NIST and NARA to develop recommendations In mid December, the CIO Council released new recommendations for digital privacy controls. The release of these recommendations falls under the Digital Government StrategyRead… Read more »
How federal CIOs can optimize their application portfolios
CIOs in the federal sector were under the gun clean house by June 12, 2012. According to the federal IT Reform Plan, these tech leaders had to demonstrate to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that, after careful review of their portfolios, they had remedied or retired underperforming applications. I recently wrote about theRead… Read more »
Will Mobility Define 2013? Interior Department CIO Bernie Mazer says Yes!
Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »
NASA CIO Linda Cureton Peers into her 2013 Tech Crystal Ball
Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »
Malcolm Jackson, CIO at EPA talks Tech Trends
Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »
Scoring CIOs on social media
We talk about social media and citizen engagement all the time, but some agencies CIOs are doing better than others. MeriTalk ranked the federal CIOs in terms on online social media savviness. Here are the results: Federal Computer Week reports MeriTalk assigned the CIOs points based on Facebook use, LinkedIn connections, tweets, followers and Follower-to-FollowRead… Read more »
Australian government’s opportunity to rethink the role of Government CIO
A few weeks ago Ann Steward, the Australian Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Secretary leading AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office) announced she was retiring from the public service after seven years in her current role. Her announcement was widely covered in the media, and there’s been a number of public and,Read… Read more »