It’s Science Fair season and judges from the Junior Academy of the Washington Academy of Sciences were evaluating projects at Washington Mathematics Science and Technology Public Charter High School. What has changed in 2013?The baseline projects are getting better. There are books and websites for improving science projects and the students are using them. ThatRead… Read more »
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Sequestration Obscures Fiscal Reality
The “Fiscal Cliff” was supposed to be a failsafe mechanism. Unfortunately, it now appears likely to fail. Just the threat of a sequester was supposed to ensure bipartisan consensus between Congress and the White House on a host of contentious issues of taxes and spending. Yet the term “compromise” has become a dirty word inRead… Read more »
President’s State of the Union Proposals Would Create Diverse Federal Job Opportunities
The Washington Post reported that the word most frequently spoken in the 2013 State of the Union speech, was JOBS. President Obama outlined initiatives that would create a variety of private-sector jobs in many industries. These new employment opportunities will in turn generate many well-paying civil service jobs, according to Kathryn Troutman, president of TheRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 and public sector innovation needs both business and technology heads
At the Gov 2.0 lunchtime event last week (video coming soon), Darren, Manager, Media and Community Information, from the ACT’s Emergency Services Agency talked about how closely he’d worked with Richard, his technical lead, to create their social media presence and new website. He proudly told us the website had cost only $43 to build,Read… Read more »
Not Just a Dusty Attic: National Archives in a Digital Age
Information Professionals Blog Series In an increasingly digital world, information management professionals are taking center stage. But outside of the IT tech guys we associate with online world, we forget about the original records managers: the Archivists and Librarians. This blog series will attempt to highlight how culture is changing within federal archives and librariesRead… Read more »
Sequester Looms Large at Agencies: Plus the DorobekINSIDER 7 Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: If the March 1st sequestration deadline isn’t met, more than 800,000 federal employees will be furloughed. So what can you do if you are a furloughed employee. We get insights from employment attorney. Click here for the recap. If you missed the DorobekINSIDER Live BYOD Panel yesterday featuring, EEOC’s Kimberly Hancher,Read… Read more »
Three Ways Anyone Can Contribute to Open Data Day
With well over 90 cities now scheduled to partake in Open Data Day and with several events expecting 50+ and even 100+ participants I wanted to outline some thoughts to help people who are thinking about participating but not sure what to expect or if they have anything helpful to offer. First things first. YouRead… Read more »
Great context from Jason Healey on Chinese Cyber Espionage
By Bob Gourley If you are an enterprise technologist you are probably pretty busy, right? And you are almost certainly numbed by the constant stories of cyber espionage, especially reports of data theft coming out of China. If you have been numbed with all the reporting please shake it off and dive into this currentRead… Read more »
Apple has been Hacked, Twitter Goes Public Secretly, HTC One vs. HD, and more…
By Marcus Williams Today’s Cyber News We Are Tracking: Apple has become one of the top Fortune 500 companies in the US to be hacked. Twitter is thinking about going public secretly. Smartphone and tablet maker HTC has introduced their newest phone called HTC One. Another Fortune 500 Company has been Hacked Apple has becomeRead… Read more »
Peering into the BYOD Crystal Ball
GovLoop’s Chris Dorobek hosted a special live edition of the DorobekINSIDER. The hot topic of the day was BYOD and we gathered an excellent group of professionals to share their expertise on our panel. (Click here for the full recap.) We were joined by Kimberly Hancher, Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology (OIT), EEOC,Read… Read more »