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New Vendors Demonstrate Technology Focused on "Border Surge" 28 Jun 2013 | 07:57 pm
The Senate approved the so called ‘border surge’ provision in the federal immigration reform bill currently moving through Congress. The vote would seemingly cast aside previous congressional focus on...
Calgary Police's Twitter Account Displays Best Practices During Flood 24 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
During the floods in Calgary, Canada, this weekend, the social media manager of Calgary’s police did a fantastic job answering questions, diffusing rumors, using social media to pull in additional inf...
A New Approach to Cybersecurity Across Agencies: The Administration's Progress Report 17 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pm
By connecting cybersecurity and performance officials as a matter of governance, the Administration is moving forward toward sustained outcomes in how cyber enables government missions and programs.
Is It Time to Drop "www" From Government Site Promotions? 11 Jun 2013 | 06:08 am
Banks do it, utilities do it, even media does it, is it time for government to also do it - drop the 'www' from web site promotions in advertising and links?
Be Informed and CACI Launch New Government Software as a Service Platform 6 Jun 2013 | 10:45 pm
The service utilizes Be Informed’s semantic model-driven platform, which is rapidly becoming a tool of choice across Europe and the Caribbean, and offers government clients the tools and templates cre...
New Thinking in Accountability 5 Jun 2013 | 10:01 pm
The increasing chorus of calls for more accountability reaches beyond recent demands for firing officials at the IRS, VA, and GSA for various perceived misdeeds. Just what is accountability, and how c...
1 in 5 Americans Will Purchase Health Insurance on an Exchange by 2017 4 Jun 2013 | 11:31 pm
Health insurance exchanges have been the source of much debate, but largely among governors and statehouses trying to figure out how they plan to implement one. In practice, these exchanges are suppos...
Australian Academia Beginning to Learn to Crawl in 2.0 Social Channels 29 May 2013 | 07:51 am
I hope that at some point academics will realise that 'altmetrics' are simply no more than metrics - ones that are already becoming business-as-usual in commercial and public sector spheres - and focu...
The Public Promise of Big Data 7 May 2013 | 02:00 pm
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 origin...
Police Facebook Pages? 2 May 2013 | 06:17 pm
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 f...
