Seventeen of the nation’s top business executives will soon start advising the Obama administration how to better manage the federal government. President Obama signed an executive order on Monday establishing the President’s Management Advisory Board, which will provide tips on productivity, customer service and the use of technology. The board will be chaired by OfficeRead… Read more »
A new major national poll regarding Americans’ trust in government finds that favorable opinions of seven federal agencies have dropped significantly since the last time the survey was conducted in the late 1990s. The poll, “Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor,” by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press surveyed more thanRead… Read more »
There’s a very interesting new blog post by Adobe’s Rob Pinkerton worth reading, asking whether the folks at Apple have actually read the Open Government Directive. Rob’s main point is that Apple’s proprietary developer requirements stifle true openness and innovation: “I still find it hard to believe that a company that founded one of theRead… Read more »
Lucas Cioffi graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point. He served as an Army Infantry Officer for five years. He also graduated from the Army Ranger School and has earned the combat infantryman’s badge during a one-year tour in Iraq. Cioffi is co-founder of OnlineTownhalls, a software application that allows large audiences toRead… Read more »
(WASHINGTON)–On the 15th anniversary of the devastating bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, we are reminded that that federal buildings and federal employees are potential targets of terrorism and crime, and that the Federal Protective Service must be a fully-funded and fully-federalized agency, American Federation of Government Employees Local 918Read… Read more »
With the announcement of the Clearmark Plain Language Awards on April 29, this is a good time to trot out some tips on writing “plain” for your web audience. I don’t care how good your website design is, if the writing is poor – if you don’t communicate with your target audience – your websiteRead… Read more »
Art of Abstraction in the Investigational Architecture work – Defeating the Devious Art of Obfuscation Bell Curves as statistical derivatives provide excellent hindsight in a single agent market or in a homogenous system. However, they breakdown in a multi-agent market or heterogeneous system, where Fractals provide better foresight as opposed to statistical hind sight basedRead… Read more »
Shovelware is a derogatory computer term that refers to software noted more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness. When little thought is given to the design of an application meant for specific use on the destination platform or medium, resulting in poor quality service, what we end upRead… Read more »
” [C]loud customers must be able to easily store, access, and process data across multiple clouds; weave together a mesh of different services to meet their needs; and have a way to collaborate with business partners around the globe. Federated clouds – networks of interoperable clouds that work together – will give rise to serviceRead… Read more »
Here’s the scoop: In the 17th annual report to the Prime Minister published a few weeks ago, Privy Council Clerk Wayne Wouters states “government departments have to embrace the Web 2.0 tools and technology that rest of the world uses that allow more collaboration among workers, levels of government and Canadians”. While his predecessor includedRead… Read more »