An interesting article by John Foley in Information Week on Feb 15 … what do you think? Is this doable? The CEOs of IBM, Dell, and other tech companies say the U.S. government can reap huge savings from IT-driven initiatives, but their ambitious plan has virtually no chance of success. By John Foley, InformationWeek FebruaryRead… Read more »
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Lazy Journalist Revealer. This. Is. Awesome.
Everybody keeps thinking that transparency and improved access to content is something that is only going to affect government, or, maybe some corporations. I’ve tried to argue differently in places like this blog post and in Taylor and I’s chapter in The New Journalist. Here’s a wonderful example of how new tools could start toRead… Read more »
Cloud Power is here for state and local governments
By Gail Thomas-Flynn, Microsoft US State & Local Government Vice President With recent discussions around the federal budget leaving more questions than answers, state and local government leaders are under a continued mandate to cut spending and reduce existing costs, and the promise of cloud computing is becoming even more relevant. Still, many of theRead… Read more »
Water and Energy Tradeoffs
It’s no secret that we face trade-offs when we choose our energy sources. Perhaps the most commonly-cited trade-off is between cost and friendliness to the environment. But we need to take another trade-off into consideration as we make our energy decisions, and that trade-off is the one between our energy source and the amount ofRead… Read more »
Fundamental Design of Learning Activities
by Aaron Silvers (ADL). Aaron Silvers has innovated the design and production of learning experiences with a variety of technologies for organizations large and small, in both the private and public sectors, for over 15 years. He led the development of a number of SCORM 2004 content examples. Aaron returned to ADL in 2010 asRead… Read more »
If you research asymmetric war, use the NCTC WITS system
The work of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is important and, because of the need to protect our nation’s information sources and advantages over international terrorists, criminals and other malicious actors, is not discussed much in the open. But there are things you can learn about NCTC by review of reputable sources. The most importantRead… Read more »
EO 13514 and Sustainable Transportation: Bicycle Transit
We often cover sustainable transportation here on the CEIL Blog, but the posts on this topic are usually about new EVs or high-speed rail lines. Today, we wanted to share with you a post about one of the easiest things people can do to ‘green’ their daily commute: ride bikes. The magazine Momentum recently publishedRead… Read more »
Saving Healthcare Billions: Let’s fork the VA’s Electronic Health Records System
Alternative title for this post: How our Government’s fear of Open Source Software is costing us Billions. So, I’ve been meaning to blog this for several months now. Back in November I remember coming across this great, but very short, interview in the Globe and Mail with Ken Kizer. Who, you might ask, is KenRead… Read more »
Myth Busters Campaign in Full Swing to Improve Public/Private Sector Communications
As part of an effort to reform the federal acquisition process for technology, US Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, unveiled an ambitious 25-point plan for addressing many of the issues that plague the way the government purchases technology in hopes of delivering more value to the taxpayer. Part of the implementation plan was to counter theRead… Read more »
NYC, LA and SF will be hubs for electric vehicles, report says
A new report issued earlier this month predicts nearly 400,000 new plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will be cruising American streets per year by 2017. Clean technology market research firm, Pike Research, says that three California cities, Chicago and New York City will lead the way in adoption of these electric vehicles over the next fiveRead… Read more »