On Tuesday (May 15th), NCDD hosted a call open to dues-paying NCDD members who live or work in California. My colleague Alissa Black, who recently left Code for America to head up the New America Foundation‘s new project, the California Civic Innovation Project (CCIP), was interested in discussing the project with NCDD members. Alissa wasRead… Read more »
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A Request From The Security Innovation Network: Please help us find the most innovative new cybersecurity companies
The mission of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET increases awareness between builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the Cybersecurity domain, in particular the Defense Industrial Base and the Federal Government. SINET utilizes a top down –Read… Read more »
Does your agency need a duplication scorecard? We talk to the Congressman behind a new bill
Duplication — multiple organizations doing the same thing. There is a question as to whether, in this age of austerity, the government can afford to have multiple programs doing the same thing and some argue that duplication makes it more difficult to assess if programs are actually working. Yet we also know that most ofRead… Read more »
Please check out the Text Analytics Summit, Boston, June 12-13
The next Text Analytics Summit is coming up in four weeks. The June 12-13 conference will be the 8th annual Boston summit, the 8th Boston summit I’ve been privileged to chair. Will you join us? The summit series was the first business-focused conference dedicated to BI on text, to techniques that turn text into dataRead… Read more »
Oracle on GovLoop
Oracle is proud to help support the collaboration, information sharing and innovation occurring across all levels of government throughout the GovLoop network. Company Overview: Managing government has never been more challenging. Public sector leaders face increasing expectations from citizens, businesses, elected officials, and employees. Pressed to provide services and information more quickly and cost effectivelyRead… Read more »
Mobile App to Fight Pirates and Arms Traffickers, Federal Hesitation over Cloud Computing, and More
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The U.S. Office of Naval Research is partnering with Chilean scientists to develop a mobile application to provide information helpful in countering pirates, arms traffickers, and illegal fishermen. More here. The Army’s 780th Military Intelligence Brigade. which handles cyber systems security and intelligence, is looking to hire 400Read… Read more »
Efficiency sucks. What we need is good work
Efficiency is the path to bigger profits. Efficiency is good. Everyone needs to be efficient. Right? Wrong! Efficiency sucks! For knowledge workers – you and me – the case against efficiency is overwhelming. ‘Efficiency’ is one of the weasel-words of management-speak, constantly misused and we are all worse off for this. In an effort toRead… Read more »
It Starts at the Beginning
This morning I attended GovLoop’s “Re-Imagining Customer Service in Government” conversation and was pleasantly surprised to hear about some of the successes agencies are having addressing President Obama’s April 2011 Executive Order 13571 – “Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service“. Chris Dorobek moderated the hour long session which included the following expert facilitators: JoeyRead… Read more »
New IBM Report: A Manager’s Guide for Using Twitter in Government
This week IBM released a new report on Twitter use for government. The report, Working the Network: A Manager’s Guide for Using Twitter in Government, was written by Professor Ines Mergel, Professor at Syracuse University. Professor Mergel is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. TheRead… Read more »
10 Ways Government Can Re-Imagine Customer Service
Nearly one year ago, President Obama released his Executive Order mandating agencies to improve their customer service initiatives. Since the mandate, agencies have made great strides improving customer service in government. This morning, Oracle sponsored an event in partnership with GovLoop titled, “Re-Imagining Customer Service in Government.” The event is part of our “GovLoop Conversations”Read… Read more »