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Internet Access, Real-Time Communications Deliver Information Faster to Cops I’ve often mentioned in my blog posts the irony of police officers accessing social media, email and the Internet on their personal smartphones, but having to settle for decades-old communications technology while on the job. There are several reasons for this... [read more]
Government agencies at all levels are examining how to use cloud services as a means of upgrading their systems while maximizing value. Moving to cloud can allow agencies to condense sprawling IT systems, offer more mobility options and manage legacy systems. However, along with all of this convenience comes a significant security... [read more]
"A communal loss can happen in many ways. Riots and terrorist attacks and natural disasters get all the publicity, but economic forces do more damage than all of them combined." [read more]
I decided to wait for a little while before writing a post to discuss the use of social media during the recent riots that took place across England. Over a period of two weeks we have seen a move away from the initial knee jerk calls for social media to be turned off during disorder to a much more sensible position, of the industry... [read more]
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) at the Commerce Department recently held a workshop to discuss how protection of personal information can be made a key implementation element in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The meeting discussed steps that Government and industry can... [read more]
I believe many readers would agree that cyber threats are one of the more significant issues facing our nation’s businesses and governments today. Earlier this month, I attended the East/West Institute’s (EWI) Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in London. EWI is a global think tank that has organized a series of meetings to help address the... [read more]
Welcome to the the next installment in my series of social media tips. These are aimed primarily at a police audience, but hopefully applicable to a wider group of people too, especially those in the public sector. This series of posts will aim to identify some good practice and useful hints and tips for police officers and staff to... [read more]
What would society be like if there weren’t any prisons? Peaceful arcadia or hell on earth? I ask because getting rid of prisons seems to me to be where we are headed if the leftist elite who appear to preside over our criminal justice system get their way. First came the fashion for non-custodial sentencing.... [read more]
Last week, I wrote about Corridor, the State Department's new internal social networking portal. This week, I want to examine some ways that its administrators can illustrate to their leadership that their investment in Corridor is returning results. Here are the top four metrics I think they should look at:... [read more]
Elaine Sullivan2011 City Hall Fellow, San FranciscoIn the March 28th issue of "The New Yorker," I came across this paragraph in Evan Osnos' article "Aftershocks: Living with catastrophe," which had been put under the header "Letter from Japan":On the hilltop overlooking the ruined city if Rikuzentakata, Jimbo met a semi-retired man in... [read more]
On February 16, 2011 I was given a new assignment in the Dallas police department’s media relations office as the social media officer. Little did I know what was in store for me! The department was joining the 21st century and my job was to help get us there. Our social media sites are now allowing us to reach thousands of Dallas... [read more]
Apparently there is to be no deal with defecting Gaddafi henchman, Mr Moussa Koussa. Strange. I thought HMG had been cutting deals with him and his ilk for much of the past decade. Indeed, it seems to me as if deals over convicted terrorists, oil rights and non-existent weapons of mass destruction formed the ... [read more]
Google has agreed to an independent review of its privacy procedures once every two years and to ask it users to give “affirmative consent” before it changes how it shares their personal information. The agreement raises the bar for the way that companies handle user privacy in the digital age. Alma Whitten, director of privacy, product... [read more]
The Australian National Audit Office has just released a report 'The Protection and Security of Electronic Information Held by Australian Government Agencies' based on a review of the approaches to information security by four agencies, the Office of Financial Management, ComSuper, Medicare Australia, and the Department of the Prime... [read more]
The emergence of Wikileaks as a global player in technology-fueled transparency was one of the biggest stories of 2010. Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and editor of techPresident, used Wikileaks as a peg to explore the new information ecosystem in his excellent new book, “Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency.”... [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 »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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