Last week we celebrated the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, which encouraged agencies to develop mobile services and make public information available anywhere, at anytime and on any device. In the increasingly mobile world, this was necessary to keep up with the private sector and constituent and employee expectations. One year later,Read… Read more »
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Interesting elsewhere – 29 May 2013
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be — I.M.H.O. — Medium Technology isn’t so much about what’s possible as it is about what’s profitable. The primary reason we haven’t landed a human on Mars yet has less to do with the technical challenges of theRead… Read more »
How Shared Services Yields Opportunities for Industry
by Lloyd McCoy Jr., Senior Analyst I recently attended a luncheon where several deputy CIOs from the Defense, Agriculture, and Interior Departments, as well as the GSA IT Transition Executive, spoke about their cost saving initiatives. Besides providing progress reports on their consolidation and optimization efforts, they called on vendors that had extensive footprints withinRead… Read more »
@Boston_Police – CTO John Daley talks Twitter and the bombings
It was the the tweet heard around the country: “CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody” The first official announcement that law enforcement agencies had concluded their manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn’t come at a press conference. ItRead… Read more »
State/Local Government Innovators- Virtual IT Forum
In local government, leaders are focused on two main things- saving money and engaging citizens. Although that is always the main focus, it is easier said than done. So how do you actually do this? Innovation. Innovative technology is enabling government leaders to make more strategic, data-driven decisions and work smarter, not harder, even withRead… Read more »
Join us for the NCDD Tufts Meetup – a speed networking & learning event
Join us for a fun afternoon meetup immediately before this year’s Frontiers of Democracy conference begins! On Thursday, July 18th from 1-4pm at Tufts in Medford, Massachusetts, we’ll do some “speed networking,” spend time in small groups learning about some of the region’s most exciting dialogue and deliberation projects, and talk some about what isRead… Read more »
Documentary on Bridging Divisive Politics
We were quite inspired recently to hear the story of a mother who, challenged by her teenager’s accusation of being political intolerant, launched an online platform and documentary project aimed at breaking down political barriers and bridging the deepest divides in our democracy. We know that the vitriol and divisiveness of today’s political discourse isRead… Read more »
New Sensation with Geoff Wullschlager, PSU Center for Public Service, Budget Analyst
Since ELGL is not a big fan of icebreakers and since we would rather not know what animal you want to be, this blog feature will serve as a means of introducing new members. While you won’t learn about their favorite animal, you will learn about their ideal Sunday morning, which dead people would theyRead… Read more »
Looking forward to XJamGov
Flickr – Photo by Paul Clarke – http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_clarke/ In the first week of June, I’ll be attending XJamGov, a global service jam event which will be hosted at County Hall in Exeter and organised by the awesome Simon Gough and Phillippa Rose of Redfront Service Design. There are still tickets left so do check outRead… Read more »
Learning by Immersion on Guns?
When we think of learning by cultural immersion, many of our minds jump to study abroad programs and foreign language courses. But we were struck by Steve Seeche’s recent blog post on his new opportunity to learn about one side of the gun control debate through a different kind of immersion – taking a gunRead… Read more »