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One year of Obama's open gov directive
Patrice McDermott of OpentheGovernment.org, and David Stern of America Speaks, discuss lessons learned one year into the Open Government Initiative.
Disaster response in era of open government
From the data management panel discussion, NOAA's Joseph Klimavicz discussed the agency's response during the Gulf Coast oil spill.
New Treasury.gov brings cost-savings, transparency
Treasury's Dan Tangherlini explains the reason behind the website relaunch and move to the cloud.
Judicial branch lags in transparency
Princeton computer scientist Harlan Yu explains why the judicial branch is struggling to be more transparent.
Treasury moves to cloud, starts blog
The Treasury Department is moving to the cloud and starting an official blog.
Will Facebook kill email?
Many people have speculated that Facebook's new communications platform might mean bad things for email. Dave Worsell, director of government solutions at GovDelivery in the UK, says that's not the case.
POPVOX curates comments to Congress
POPVOX is a new online tool that sorts through all the feedback that goes to Congress.
Soldiers displeased with Army Knowledge Online
The Army Times received more than 70 e-mails from active-duty, civilian and retired users. Almost all of them expressed some dissatisfaction with the site.
Military shares videos on milTube
milTube is the Pentagon's latest social media offering. It's like YouTube but only members of the military can access it. Justin Filler is the deputy director of MilTech Solutions. He tells us how and why the site was created.
NASA dashboard tracks open gov goals
NASA's online dashboard tracks the agency's open government goals.
World Bank widgets example for open gov
O'Reilly Radar reports that the World Bank is setting an example for creating easy-to-use data.
Open gov creates need for 'data curators'
With the explosion of government data now online, the government will rely on 'data curators' to help the public make sense of the information, The New York Times and O'Reilly Radar report.
Five Gov 2.0 tips for training future leaders
Blogger Yasmin Fodil offers five tips to train future leaders in technology and Gov 2.0.
Public floods BP with oil response ideas
USA Today reports the public submitted 123,000 ideas to BP on how to stop the oil flow and clean up the spill.
San Francisco passes first open data law
The city is the first to require all departments to publish its data.
Gov 2.0 focused on government at expense of public
Computerworld Australia reports that Gov 2.0 is overly focused on internal benefits and not on public use. But Andrea DiMaio argues that making government more efficient is the outcome.
Enterprise 2.0: A sea of change
Andrew McAfee writes in his blog about a cultural shift among CIOs toward Enterprise 2.0.
Manor, Texas CIO joins crowd sourcing group, Spigit
GovFresh talks to Dustin Haigler about his decision to leave Manor, Texas, as CIO and join a crowd-sourcing start-up.
Recovery.gov's new look
IBM Center for the Business of Government describes improvements to Recovery.gov.
Government 2.0 in metamorphosis
Lovisa Williams writes in her blog that Gov 2.0 is not in a slump but in metamorphosis.
Top News
- VA chipping away at oldest disability claims in backlog
- What's the latest on phased retirement?
- New mobile tools gives agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
- Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations
- Furlough Friday: Multiple agencies took advantage of holiday weekend
- Data breach puts DHS employees at risk of ID theft
- IRS replaces official in Tea Party controversy
- Commerce nominee sails through hearing
- Obama nominates Archuleta as next OPM director
- FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone
- Tangherlini to be nominated as permanent GSA chief
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB reworking financial system requirements
- Federal retirement funds temporarily tapped
- Friday federal headlines - May 24, 2013
