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May 2, 2013
Harvard Announces Top 25 in Government Innovation
Harvard University has announced its Top 25 programs in this year’s Innovations in American Government Award competition. These government initiatives represent the dedicated efforts of city, state, federal, and tribal governments and address a host of policy issues including crime prevention, economic development, environmental and community revitalization, employment, education, and health care.[read more]
May 7, 2013
The Public Promise of Big Data
As governments inevitably learn more about the importance of Big Data they may find that decisions made in the past - even those made by past governments or long retired bureaucrats - that were originally thought to be relatively straight forward may actually have had a number of unanticipated consequences.[read more]
May 2, 2013
Police Facebook Pages?
Mike found that three police forces had the highest rate of increase in Facebook “likes” compared to the previous month: Hampshire, Greater Manchester and Strathclyde. I looked at the Facebook pages for these three forces and identified the five most popular posts from each in the month under review.[read more]
Virginia Creates Cybersecurity Accelerator Program
Last week, CivSource reported on the launch of a new initiative in Virginia to grow that state’s cybersecurity economy. The initiative, called Semper Secure, included a partnership with Northrop Grumman. Now, Virginia is rolling out the next phase of the plan – MACH37 – a cybersecurity accelerator.[read more]
What Competing Australian Broadband Policies Really Say about How Australian Government is Changing
Yesterday the Liberal-National Coalition released its broadband policy for Australia, in front of a high-tech set at Sky News, in contrast to the Labor Government's NBN plan and current rollout.[read more]
Toronto Star Op-Ed: Muzzled Scientists, Open Government and the Limits of Rules
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Even more than programs and regulations, an open government is the result of culture, norms and leadership. And here the message — felt as strongly by government scientists as any other public servants — is clear. Public servants are allowed less and less to have a perspective, to say nothing of the ability to share that perspective.[read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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“The anonymity issue is an important one, and like a lot of things, there's pro's and con's. I "prefer" actually NOT having anonymous comments, but one problem is that there ARE valid reasons why people have to remain anonymous. I do agree with you that dumping things on Facebook is problematic. Frankly I'm not sure what the solution is.”
“ Great article! One idea – maybe the best (for you) way to respond to your notice would be to replace the infrigement by a link back to the original at your site. I don’t understand why people copy articles – that’s a waste of their disk space while only linking to the original is almost equally valuable. And if they ask you for a permission ...”