Day Seven of mobile challenges is about privacy and identity management. Mobile has been called an intimate technology. People carry their mobile devices with them at all times. Their phones have easy access to friends and family contacts, calendars, email, and social networks. The availability of location and personal data requires government to be extraRead… Read more »
That the term “synergy” keeps showing up on my mental radar and calendar is not surprising. But yesterday, I experienced the “mother nature” variation. Meandering along the banks of the Chagrin River, 20 miles east of Cleveland, I stepped off the heavily wooded path at the confluence point of two streaming tributaries. Walking along aRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Nonplussed: now it means something else entirely. Google+ launched. Mayhem has swept the internet. What does it all mean? And what does it mean for government? GovLoop hosts a lively conversation. First, social, next, government? Now that Google has taken care of social networking, they are setting their sites on developing applications toRead… Read more »
By Josh Jacobs Details continue to emerge from a story that broke at the end of June concerning a Nigerian American who bypassed three separate layers of airport security in New York and successfully flew to Los Angeles. It wasn’t until mid-flight that the suspect was asked to present his boarding pass and ID. AfterRead… Read more »
Tweet Print PDF As Minnesota wraps up the seventh day of being without a functioning state government, reports are emerging that despite all the talk about fiscal responsibility the shutdown will end up costing the state and local businesses millions. The Minnesota state government has been shutdown since Friday due to a budget fight betweenRead… Read more »
If an app is launched in an app store and nobody knows, does it make a sound? That’s one of the questions up for today’s discussion of the mobile market. While some question whether government should be building apps at all–that this is a function of the private sector–others are wondering where the government appsRead… Read more »
I’ve been thinking about how citizens might use mobile devices to get government services for…well…years. Sam Gallagher and I started talking about making web content usable on mobile devices way back in 2000, when we were teaching HUD’s partners how to create customer-friendly websites. Mobile apps are here to stay, and it’s a great timeRead… Read more »
Earlier this year, We helped launch the new USA.gov Blog on Tumblr. Part of the work required to launch the USA.gov Blog on Tumblr was to develop government-friendly terms of service for Tumblr. Now that government agencies can sign up with Tumblr on Apps.gov, we’ve started keeping track of which agencies use the service. It’sRead… Read more »
The GovLoop team was up at the crack of dawn today, adorned in our nonchalant gov’t rockstar t-ees. Mission? Hand out flyers for our upcoming Next Generation of Government Summit. Why? A major part of building an online community is getting out in the real-live community. Here are 8 tips to ensure successful paper flyerRead… Read more »
Trust is a valuable thing online, and being able to know that the information you’re receiving is reliable and accurate is difficult yet essential — especially so for government websites, where people go for critical information, like health services and public safety. That’s why it was great to see the federal government roll out 1.USA.govRead… Read more »