The recession in our country is real. In most cases, it’s the same everywhere else in the world. Most businesses and/or government agencies are cutting costs wherever they can, making their operations run on the bare essentials. For the most part, running “lean and mean” is a great idea; however, reacting too hastily may causeRead… Read more »
Random government fact: 12 million U.S. passports are issued annually by the U.S. State Department. Source: Partnership for Public Service 2007 Annual Report
I attended eDemocracyCamp yesterday in DC. In his introductory remarks, Andrew Cohen tied recent Government 2.0 conferences back to President Obama’s January 2009 Transparency Memo nicely by saying: – TransparencyCamp was about transparency – Government 2.0 Camp was about collaboration – eDemocracyCamp is about participation OGI — the Open Government & Innovations conference — isRead… Read more »
Last week my blog was going to be about the pirate situation in east African waters but after I started writing, I opted to write a plug for the cruise industry instead. Yeah, I wimped out. As it turns out my younger son, the filmmaker, forced me to face my conscience on this one. HeRead… Read more »
President Obama holds his first full cabinet meeting today (without the still unconfirmed Kathleen Sebelius) to order spending cuts at each of the government agencies. The goal is to trim $100 million in the next 90 days, an impressive-sounding figure, but don’t be fooled: The cuts announced today amount to just one quarter of oneRead… Read more »
W. Henry Lambright writes an interesting report about Griffin and NASA. A summary of the report is that President George W. Bush told NASA to return to the moon and prepare for manned exploration of Mars. The man he put in charge, Michael Griffin, was a certified rocket scientist with a passion for manned spaceRead… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance: @juliabeebuzz: @Gov20Camp – Passing along the great stuff happening for Data.gov http://tinyurl.com/cgslam #gov20 #opengov #gov20camp #edemcamp #gov20cloud @adrielhampton: Tune in to http://gov20radio.com for Clay Johnson of Sunlight Labs w/@govloop & @meghan1018 – 2/5 eastern #gov20 #opengov @a_marsh: To consider when making immigration policy: 1/2 of US tech companies had foreignRead… Read more »
twitter @kpkfusion This morning I published a simple twitter post that circulated quickly. The post was inspired by a Washington Post article on the Johnstown Pa airport. According to the Post article, the airport, though slightly used, became one of the first recipients of stimulus funds and has now received over 200M of federal moneyRead… Read more »
So I’ve been sitting on Dr. Mark Drapeau’s (with Linton Wells) paper entitled Social Software and National Security (download here) for a few weeks. I took a quick peruse the other day and was digging what I was reading but thought I’d take a deeper dive on a Sunday morning. Here are my thoughts: 1)Read… Read more »
I think everyone was surprised on Saturday morning when President Obama used his weekly radio address to announce his new CTO. But the Obama administration is a 24-hour shop, so why not? Now, Obama’s top IT shop is in place, ready to handle a new level of technology in government. How cool is that?