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Predictive Policing, A new federal Acronym, and States head to the Cloud


Predictive Policing, A new federal Acronym, and States head to the Cloud by GovLoop Insights

We have a great show for you today…

The stories that impact your life for Wednesday March 7th, 2012… your government world in 120-seconds… and more details on our guests today…

AND… Yes… the iPad HD was introduced yesterday. Have you ordered yours? Slate says there isn’t any revolutionary introductions — higher definition screen… 4G wireless, which some analysts suggested might make it more of a business tool. There have been 55 million iPads sold so far.

And… my friend Bill Eggers at Deloitte has a piece on the Harvard Business Review Web site that is definitely worth your time — it’s headlined “Disrupting the Public Sector.” And he says that despite a host of obstacles, we’re beginning to see signs of disruptive innovations gaining a foothold in education, defense, and health care. If our political leaders truly want to deliver more for less, they’ll need to use the formidable tools at their disposal to nurture disruptions across the public services landscape. Read the research itself here.

And on Monday, we’re going to talk to somebody who has had a first hand view of some of that disruption… and how one agency is dealing with it.

* Solving problems using big data: The Santa Cruz, CA example

Zach Friend is a Crime Analyst for the Santa Cruz Police Department.

Popular Science magazine: The Santa Cruz Experiment: Can a City’s Crime Be Predicted and Prevented?
By turning its crime problem into a data problem, Santa Cruz is reinventing police work for the 21st century

* Cloud computing for state & local governments
Michael Kerr, Senior Director, State & Local Government, TechAmerica
TechAmerica Foundation : Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud is Imperative for Better Collabation
Report: The Cloud Imperative: Better Collaboration Better Service Better Cost[PDF]* CAPping your goals

John Kamensky is the Senior Fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government.

OMB’s performance goals

GovLoop: CAP Goals: A New Government Acronym is Born, part 1 by John Kamensky

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Before we close… a few closing items…

On International Women’s Day… we share these worlds spoken on this date in 1884…

“We appear before you this morning…to ask that you will, at your earliest convenience, report to the House in favor of the submission of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Legislatures of the several States, that shall prohibit the disfranchisement of citizens of the United States on account of sex.”

That was how Susan B. Anthony began her address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives on March 8, 1884. Her statement printed in the 1884 document Congressional Action in the First session of the 48th Congress. Susan B. Anthony argued for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Her’s argument came sixteen years after legislators had first introduced a federal woman’s suffrage amendment.

The 19th Ammendment was passed in August 18, 1920… 36 years later.

Is Congress essentially done for the year? Linda Killian, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, writes in The Atlantic that while it’s not even spring yet, but with the elections looming, the House and Senate may already have done everything they will do in 2012.

Meanwhile, Politico says that being a member of Congress just isn’t fun any more. The thrill is gone, Politico says. Lawmakers say that they don’t make national policy anymore. They can’t earmark money for communities back home. The public hates them. And that is why you’re seeing lawmakers young and old are trading in their member pins for a new life in the private sector.

Finally, we’ve heard about those solar flares?


Technically, by the way, it’s called the X5.4 solar flair and it happened on March 6 and is now reaching us three days later. NASA has a very cool video of the flares. I have the link online. And did you know that NOAA predicts space weather. Really? And they were right on the money on this one. I got to talk to them a few years ago about how they predict space weather…

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