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Brown and Cornell Universities move to the Cloud

Workday will allow Brown University to reallocate resources to mission critical areas. Find out more in these videos about how Cornell and Brown universities use Workday: http://www.workday.com/solutions/higher_education.php?campid=sm_gl_ws_bd_he_103

Building the case for the cloud

Deltek Analyst Amanda White reports. The first ever Cloud Computing in Health Care Conference & Expo was held June 21-22, 2011 at the City Avenue Hilton in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference, spearheaded by the International Institute for Business Information and Growth (iiBIG), generated from the need for intelligent and open dialogue on how cloud-based technologiesRead… Read more »

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The Kansas KLISS : Reinventing participative e-democracy, one Cloud at a time

Although there is lots of social media activity around government, technically speaking it’s currently more just ‘Gov 1.5′ rather than ‘Gov 2.0′. This is because while there is more interaction online, via blogs and twitter et al, the core processes themselves are still entirely decentralized, in terms of the decision-making model that determines who actuallyRead… Read more »

Cloud experts respond to Call for Open Government in Canada

On June 21st Ontario Ombudsman André Marin called on the government of Ontario to embrace the worldwide trend toward open government, noting that many of his investigations of government organizations revealed a lack of transparency and accountability to Ontarians. On June 22nd we held our first webinar, Open Government Canada, that introduced how the trendRead… Read more »

GovCloud Is Now For Real !!

On Friday July 1, Infrastructure-as-a-Services for the US federal government became a reality with Authority to Operate (ATO) approval for the following vendors: Web Hosting CGI Federal Computer Literacy World Eyak Technology Computer Technologies Consultant Savvis Federal Systems Virtual Machine Autonomic Resources Carahsoft Technology Corp CGI Federal Computer Literacy World AT&T Eyak Technology General DynamicsRead… Read more »

G-Cloud Open Data API

We ran our first webinar last week, ‘Open Government Canada’, which was great fun and seemed well received. You can access the replay and all the slide decks here. Open Government Cloud Computing My goal was to launch the CBPN with an example of the main objective: To assemble a mixed group of experts toRead… Read more »

Federal or DOD Emergency Management – Public Safety Cloud Concepts

What are the most important aspects of Federal and/or DOD Emergency Management solutions that you would be willing to move to a Cloud? What would motivate you to using a Cloud versus a premise based solution? I would like to make this a running topic and build input from many sources as this is aRead… Read more »

What’s Wrong With Today’s Definitions of “The Cloud”

My colleague Glenn Gibson has just written these excellent thoughts around “the cloud” and I wanted to share with the GovLoop community! What’s Wrong With Today’s Definitions of “The Cloud” The Cloud. The iCloud. Cloud Computing. Cloud Power. Global Cloud. Local Cloud. Elastic Clouds. Public Cloud. Community Cloud. Hybrid Cloud. The Intercloud. Things can beRead… Read more »

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Like the Beatles, states and localities look for HELP defining cloud/SaaS services

Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. Requests for information (RFIs) are routinely used by state and local governments as a means to gather intelligence from the contracting community regarding a certain business problem, system or solution. For vendors, the challenge is usually in identifying and deciding whether an RFI is worth the time and resources toRead… Read more »

Re-inventing participative Democracy, one cloud at a time

The keynote theme of our Open Government Canada webinar is how online technologies can make the system of Government itself inherently more democratic. This topic will be addressed by Sean McGrath, build director for KLISS. Read Sean’s blog here Read an in-depth white paper on the KLISS system here Re-inventing participative Democracy, one cloud atRead… Read more »