State Department Bets Big on Data-Driven Diplomacy
In 2022, the State Department updated its criteria for evaluating U.S. Foreign Service employees’ performance to reflect data’s growing usefulness — in all aspects of department work.
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Securing a Workforce Overseas in a Crisis
The agency’s latest use case was centered on processing refugees through leveraging on-premises and cloud solutions overseas.
Case Studies in Embracing Change
Depending on the agency’s size, maturity and mission statement, “modernization” can mean different things and produce diverse initiatives. Here are some examples.
What We’ve Learned About Cloud
Widespread telework ushered in a new suite of applications and workflows. With it, agencies gained familiarity with cloud solutions, learning on the way.
Undergoing Strategic Transformation at the State Department
How can governments optimize their digital transformation initiatives? A leader at the State Department answered this question.
These Women Use Teamwork to Innovate Government
The State Department’s Creative Diplomacy Team discuss teamwork and the challenges and rewards of being digital pacesetters.
An Exciting Global Fellowship Opportunity
Funded by the State Department and administered by TWC, the Foreign Affairs and Information Technology (FAIT) fellowship program provides current graduate and undergraduate students pursuing an IT-related degree with the chance to apply technology solutions to diplomacy.
Keeping Up with the Intelligence Community
Are you making your data meaningful and accessible?
State Department’s Holistic Approach to Cloud Security
It’s well known that becoming a Foreign Service officer for the State Department can take a person on the journey of a lifetime. But there’s a different kind of journey that the State Department has been on — the journey of successfully adopting and deploying cloud computing technology departmentwide, and doing so securely.
The “De-Siloization” of Knowledge in Government
Most of an organization’s collective wisdom is locked in people’s heads, and not written down for others to search for and use. So, how do you increase the ability of people to know the expertise of their professional colleagues and share it with each other within a large organization?