Last week, Steve Ressler told you about an upcoming initiative to let the public shape the future of Recovery.gov. Building a portal where the public can monitor the dispersal of stimulus funds and progress of the economic recovery, transparently and in real time, is no easy feat. So, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, inRead… Read more »
There’s been plenty of quick action so far to ratchet up the government’s response to the swine flu outbreak. It’s all over the federal government – There are websites from multiple federal agencies. Congress is planning emergency hearings this week on the outbreak and government command centers have been enacted to keep track of andRead… Read more »
The pay gap between male and female federal government employees has closed significantly in the last 20 years as workers have become more alike in education, experience, and the occupations they hold, according to a report to be released today by the Government Accountability Office. Women earned 89 cents for every dollar earned by theirRead… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance: @gwynnek: IT & Web leaders push for rewrite of outdated paperwork reduction act rules. Online not = paper! http://ow.ly/3vKK #gov20 (tx @MWEditor) @cdorobek: DorobekInsider.com: Team Obama puts out the help wanted sign for Recovery.gov transparency ideas http://twurl.nl/78oiw4 #gov20 @govloop: New GovLoop Project of Week – Cumberland County and Web 2.0Read… Read more »
I attended Vivek Kundra’s talk at an NVTC break this past Saturday, April 25th. Vivek challenged the audience and the federal government to rethink how to reach the public in their ‘daily digital life’ and to find innovative paths to deliver services. He underlined the importance of the federal government to attract the best ‘humanRead… Read more »
The Obama administration launched a seven-day “high tech roundtable” today to solicit ideas from IT professionals, government contractors, federal employees and other concerned citizens with ideas on how to build and operate Recovery.gov, the economic stimulus-tracking Web site. TheNationalDialogue.org will collect the Recovery.gov ideas between today and May 3. Users can submit their ideas withRead… Read more »
I absolutely love this article and thought I would share it with the GovLoop Community. Government managers are often told that they should look to the private sector on how to run their organizations. While government can certainly learn from best practices in the private sector, I have included a piece below that talks aboutRead… Read more »
The weekend should have been pretty quiet. But then the Department of Homeland Security and the CDC held a news conference on Sunday, warning about the spreading of swine flu. On Sunday, there were 20 cases in the U.S. Today, there are 40 cases. And with the deaths of more than 100 people in MexicoRead… Read more »
Random Government Fact for the Day: NASA-developed technologies have found more than 30,000 secondary commercial uses in products ranging from plasma screens to heart rate monitors.
I’ll be visiting DC from Boston on the May 16-17 weekend and have some time on surrounding days to talk to federal government workers who are carrying on efforts in your agencies on the open government initiative. My intent is to write an article describing the psychological and social side of this work: the excitement,Read… Read more »