Nomination materials for the 2013 Saltmarsh Award are due Monday, April 8, 2013. The award is given in recognition of exemplary early-career leaders who are advancing the wider civic engagement movement through higher education to build a broader public culture of democracy. In an effort to recognize, support and encourage the next generation of leadersRead… Read more »
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Lessons from Brigade, Year One: DO THIS!
“If we’re not documenting these experiences and sharing them, then how do we justify all these resources?” ~ Steven Clift (@democracy) speaking with fellows about the need to share learning In November, I wrote to the 2012 Fellows during their final week that it was the fastest year of my life in a long time.Read… Read more »
Pay Freeze Paused? Plus the DorobekINSIDER 7 Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Big Data is a word that’s being thrown around a lot recently. It’s a new term for an old problem; having too much data. Not an overly complicated issue to grasp, albeit the solution to the problem is a much more complicated one. With the federal Big Data market being estimatedRead… Read more »
Governing in the Next Four Years: Technology
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Technology While you may not have come to Washington to manage information technology (IT), you should pay attention to it for two reasons. First, if you leverage IT effectively, it will help you achieve your goals. Second, if IT is managed poorly in your agency,Read… Read more »
Meeting Cities
San Francisco City Hall Truth be told, it’s safe to say what we’ll be doing in February is a bit of a mystery to us all. What will our schedule be? Where will we live? How do we need to plan? For the uninitiated, February is the time Code for America Fellows leave San FranciscoRead… Read more »
Inauguration day, fed style – Plus the 7 DorobekINSIDER stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: As a journalist, a college student a writer by trade, i’ve been filled with the horrors of plagiarism. So when I heard Henry Sienkiewicz tell the crowd gathered at the Keys to Next Generation Security Operations conference that not only is plagiarism ok, it’s encouraged when it comes to cybeersecurity, IRead… Read more »
Google dropping old Office formats, AWS beefs up super-fast data processing and more
By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. A startup emerges to use wireless mesh and the cloud to fight energy theft – A Canadian startup called “Awesense” is looking to cut down on energy theft. This theft can occur from people tapping directly into high-voltage wires and using theRead… Read more »
On the Public Record with Kaid Benfield, National Resources Defense Council
On the Public Record Kaid Benfield, Director of Sustainable Communities, Energy & Transportation Program Kaid on the World Wide Web: Blog, Twitter, Facebook Background Check on Kaid Benfield Kaid Benfield is director of sustainable communities at National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, DC. He manages NRDC’s work advocating solutions to environmental challenges in America’sRead… Read more »
Commerce considering managed cyber services, Malware spreading through Skype and more
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. College Student Expelled After Bringing Web Vulnerability to School’s Attention – After two computer science students found an exploit in the Omnivox Web Portal, they brought it to the attention of the authorities. However, a few days later, one of the studentsRead… Read more »
Overboard with Analytics? The TSA’s New Security Screening Software
We’re constantly talking about analytics and how it affects corporations and agencies, but how will it affect you? We’re used to strict, and sometimes invasive, security precautions at the airport by Transportation Security Administration in order to keep our skies and travelers safe. Using new analytics software, TSA officials will be able to identify individualsRead… Read more »