The Obama Administration has built on efforts from the Bush Administration to embed the use of evidence and evaluation in making funding decisions. There are now four different types of initiatives underway, or proposed, in a range of federal agencies. Within OMB, there is an active effort to catalyze agencies to develop and undertake aRead… Read more »
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Gone Digital – How the Smithsonian Plans to Digitize 130 Million Objects
Only about 1% of the Smithsonian’s massive collection of archives is on display at any given time at the museums. That means that 99% of the archives are off limits to the public and scientists alike. “If people can’t access the archives they might as well not exist,” said Gunter Waibel. Waibel is is theRead… Read more »
TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
Stocks started the week moving sharply lower as the Dow lost 140-points on Monday, but three days of big gains helped push the indices into positive territory for the week, despite weakness on Friday. Here are the up to date TSP fund returns through June 28 and the final numbers for the month of June.Read… Read more »
A Mobile & Modernized Mississippi
In keeping with the triple M’s of the latest GovLoop guide, Making Mobile Matter, this post highlights how Mississippi has channeled its modernization efforts in mobile apps. To learn how states can center their mobile development strategies on citizen needs and engagement, we chatted with Dr. Craig Orgeron, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Mississippi andRead… Read more »
Q&A from the Campaign Trail
As we round out the second month of the Great American Civic Hack we checked in four of our national repos: LocalWiki, OpenTreeMap, CKAN, and Councilmatic. Check out what they had to say on the top issues they’d like to get resolved during the campaign and the greatest challenge about collaborating on open source civicRead… Read more »
Measuring the ROI of Crime Analytics: Case Study from Lancaster, California
This is the final blog post of the Smarter Cities: Building Safer Communities in the Digital Age series. This series explores how analytics has empowered the street level bureaucrat, redefining the way public safety officials keep communities safe. Across the country, public safety organizations are leveraging crime analytics to improve efficiencies and connecting employees toRead… Read more »
Star Trek: The Next Generation [of Mobile]
Yesterday, I attended my first DorobekINSIDER LIVE! While it was a great event live, it’s equally great recorded so be sure to catch it here. After discussing the recent trends and government examples of mobility, the panels tapped into their futuristic mindsets to tell us how they foresee mobility will evolve in the next fewRead… Read more »
New White Paper on Big Data for Predictive Policing
By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just announced a white paper on the use of Big Data for Predictive Policing In this paper we review the evolution of law enforcement use of Big Data and capture someRead… Read more »
A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012
By Bob Gourley Jason Healey is a world-renowned strategic thinker who has focused for years on issues of importance to national security. He has served in government and industry and at the Atlantic Council, and has also dedicated a significant amount of his personal time helping lead the non-profit Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA). HeRead… Read more »
Do CORs Matter in Your Agency? Why They Should
By Patricia Miller, Senior Acquisition Analyst Picture the acquisition process flow as a wheel. Around the wheel are the pre-award and award process, contract management and finally the contract close-out. Because Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs) may be involved in all aspects of the acquisition cycle, they operate as the linchpin that holds it all together.Read… Read more »