With the upcoming OASIS conference being held at the Microsoft HQ in Washington DC, and my first session being focused on “Digital Government”, it’s helpful to showcase what their offering is. Cloud Connected Government Digital Government is the headline program recently announced by the new Whitehouse CIO, Steven VanRoekel. It describes a number of technicalRead… Read more »
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Addressing Cyber Instability Executive Summary
After two years of intensive study and research, the Cyber Conflict Studies Association is preparing to release their book-length monograph on “Addressing Cyber Instability.” Last month, the CCSA released an executive summary previewing the work, which is available for download. The impetus for “Addressing Cyber Instability” is that, though cyberspace has become indispensable and irreplaceableRead… Read more »
Over $2000 donated so far for scholarship funds for NCDD Seattle – more needed!
We launched our scholarship fund drive for the 2012 NCDD conference on Monday, and proud to say that our community has contributed $2,075 so far! We greatly appreciate the support of our earliest donors. Our goal is to raise $15,000 from our community to help people from diverse backgrounds make it to NCDD Seattle whoRead… Read more »
Implicit Learning Passwords Are Like Riding a Bike
Cryptography recently joined forces with neuroscience to propose a groundbreaking innovation in authentication. Hristo Bojinov of Stanford University along with Daniel Sanchez and Paul Reber of Northwestern, Dan Boneh of Stanford, and Patrick Lincoln of SRI published a paper on “Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks.” Passwords, encryption keys, and other methods ofRead… Read more »
Wozniak is worried about Cloud Storage, Flexible batteries may be on the horizon and more
Ouya is turning into the best little Android box forthcoming (but when will it be here?) Here is our wrap-up of the top technology stories of the day. Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, believes that cloud storage will lead to “horrible problems” in the future. He said that “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. YouRead… Read more »
Introducing Kind of Digital Exchange
It’s not the most exciting bit of technology in the world, but it could be very useful. I read an awful lot of stuff on the web – thanks to Google Reader, it’s made really easy. Lots of people don’t have the time to do so, and are quite grateful to have useful items pointedRead… Read more »
Beyond doing more with less — rethinking the work we do with IBM, did twitter kill emergency management? and NASA reacts to the Mars Rover
On today’s program Doing more with less — that’s the mantra these days, right? But is it time to just do things differently? We’ll talk to Chuck Prow — the General Manager of IBM’s Global Business Services’ Public Sector business — and get his thoughts. He is the author of a new book — GoverningRead… Read more »
3,2,1 Liftoff! NASA reacts to the Mars Rover landing – Adorable Moment
How can we not talk about the Mars rover? The critter landed on Mars early Monday morning and has already been sending back some amazing photos — just amazing stuff. And if you haven’t seen the video of the crew watching the actual landing, it is so heartwarming. While it took only minutes for CuriosityRead… Read more »
Insights from Successful State Chief Administrators
By Kimberly Leichtner, Associate Consultant (MPA ’13) For the past several months, I’ve had the pleasure of getting an inside glimpse into the jobs of state chief administrators, the public officials who oversee the administrative and general services departments that provide critical business functions for their state. Over the last few years, Fels Research &Read… Read more »
Book Club Final Week: Constructive Politics as Public Work
Our summer book club on Democratizing Deliberation comes to a close this week, with Harry Boyte’s chapter “Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature.” Like Harry, this week’s chapter leader, Wendy Willis, is an extraordinary leader in her own right — Wendy is Executive Director of the Policy Consensus Initiative and Deputy Director forRead… Read more »