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Hurricane Season Signals Time to Move Atlantic Coast State and Local Government Data to Cloud Computing

With the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season officially starting  tomorrow, June 1, it is timely for state and local governments to review data protection options. Cloud computing and related Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications provide data...
Posted May 31, 2010 with 218 views     
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Open Government and Creating a Problem-Solving Network

A group of like-minded people from across a range of agencies met to discuss how they might create a collaborative problem-solving network around implementing their agencies' Open Government initiatives. They raised, but didn't resolve, a range of...
Posted May 26, 2010 with 223 views     
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GSA's FedSpace Collaboration Platform

Will FedSpace, the cross-agency collaboration platform recently announced by GSA, turbo-charge the Obama Administration's "problem-solving networks?" There are lessons from other similar initiatives worth noting. The President’s budget for...
Posted May 18, 2010 with 114 views     
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HUD’s Open Gov Plan Focuses on Mission

The Collaboration Project hosted a “lessons learned” forum last week on how agencies developed their Open Government Plans.  I was particularly impressed with what the presenter from the Department of Housing and Urban Development said, so I...
Posted May 5, 2010 with 256 views     
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Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services

Some things can move fast in bureaucracies!  President Obama signed Executive Order 13522, “Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services,” in early December to resurrect the labor-management partnerships from the...
Posted May 4, 2010 with 90 views     
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Cloud Computing and Canadian Government

It is encouraging to see Jirka Danek, the Canadian Government’s CTO (Public Works) strategy for Cloud Computing within the Canadian Government. He talks about cloud services such as the apps.gov web site in the USA as a possible model to follow with...
Posted April 29, 2010 with 337 views     
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Scorecarding Agency Open Gov Plans

The Obama Administration announced today a scorecard of the quality of the plans submitted earlier this month by 29 major agencies.  Using a checklist of 30 criteria, the scorecards show all agencies rating either a “yellow” or a “green” on...
Posted April 27, 2010 with 47 views     
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Your Global Intelligence Update

North Korea: North Korea warned South Korea and the United States on 24 April that it will employ “all means, including the nuclear deterrent” if they intrude into the North’s territory, The Associated Press reported, citing the official Korean...
Posted April 26, 2010 with 75 views     
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US Government Launches NewMoney.gov to Educate You

The United States Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Secret Service unveiled the design of a new $100 bill today during a ceremony in the Cash Room. I love that name. To stay ahead of counterfeiters and protect our...
Posted April 23, 2010 with 95 views     
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Q&A: Evaluating SaaS and cloud computing for your government agency.

#1.  Is my web-based software / SaaS data secure? When evaluating SaaS vendors for your government agency, it is important to make sure any SaaS provider you’re considering has detailed, rock-solid policies and procedures in place to guarantee...
Posted April 20, 2010 with 75 views     
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Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement

Federal agencies recently released their Open Government Plans on how they will actively engage citizens in agency decision-making efforts.  None, that I’ve seen in what I’ve read so far, are taking advantage of a growing trend to use...
Posted April 16, 2010 with 66 views     
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Evaluating Software as a Service (SaaS) on cloud computing platform for government

The web-based software / SaaS model is ideal for all sizes of government (state government and local government) as it allows agencies to leverage a sophisticated IT infrastructure, which would otherwise be out of reach for most. Many questions...
Posted April 14, 2010 with 121 views     
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