We’re so excited to have a bunch of new faces in the office: summer interns! Last week, over a dozen new recruits joined Code for America to work on projects ranging from design and code to policy and outreach — thanks in no small part to the support of Google Summer of Code and theRead… Read more »
The Government Printing Office turned 150 years old this year. Did you know, GPO actually opened the day President Lincoln was inaugurated? Federal News Radio has put together a cool multimedia series looking at GPO’s history. Web editor and fellow GovLooper Jolie Lee was responsible for the project and it turned out great! Definitely beRead… Read more »
Hey GovLoop fans, I hope you share my excitement when holding the summer issue of The Public Manager. It’s being distributed to subscribers right now. If you can’t wait, if you urgently need help with information overload, managing in a fishbowl, or attending to the big challenge of 21st Century government reorganization being considered byRead… Read more »
What is ITIL? ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library [ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library] The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and practices for Information Technology Services Management (ITSM), Information Technology (IT) development and IT operations. ITIL gives detailed descriptions of a number of important ITRead… Read more »
In January of this year I posted a discussion paper on Ozloop entitled The public service in a Wikileaks world. Some of the ideas in that paper took me down the path of suggesting that we need a public service renaissance. Like many others, at the time I was very much of the view thatRead… Read more »
I was recently given permission to share a “work in progress” extranet site from the Government of British Columbia. Please note that it is currently a mirror and has not yet been officially launched. So what is it exactly? A collection of guidelines and best-practices surrounding the use of social media for citizen engagement. HowRead… Read more »
Last week, Andrew McLaughlin presented at the Personal Democracy Forum — a conference exploring and analyzing technology’s impact on politics and government — why and how we’re building a Civic Commons. Video from Andrew’s talk was posted online; check it out below: Original post
Difficult budget times produce changes in government. One trend that I have been watching with interest is the drive to use IT to help government be more transparent. Before computers were found in government, a “paper trail” was considered good government because transactions and government decisions could be reviewed and reconstructed using files for theRead… Read more »
Staff turnover is as inevitable as death and taxes, and for government it looms on the horizon. According to the Office of Personnel Management projections, by the end of 2015 more than 50 percent of the 7,746 senior executives in place at the beginning of 2011 will have left government. As these executives leave theirRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, co-authored with Dan Chenok. The newest business term making the rounds is “social business.” Of course, we hesitate to say “newest,” as there may be a new term by the time this blog is posted (this morning, in fact, we saw a reference to somethingRead… Read more »