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USDA's online complaint form to aid food safety probes
The Department of Agriculture's new online consumer complaint form could help the agency trace the root of a food safety problem. Federal News Radio interviews David Goldman, assistant administrator for USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Tags: David Goldman , FSIS , USDA , technology , poultry inspection , Federal Drive
USAID crowdsources to clean up aid data
The United States Agency for International Development called on volunteers to clean up data with more accurate geolocation information. Over the weekend, USAID held a crowdsourcing event asking for volunteers from the public to help code and research information on 20,000 records.
Tags: USAID , Shadrock Roberts , technology , Federal Drive
State Dept. competition expands horizons of social networking
A contest sponsored by the State Department mobilized people online to find and photograph three individual (fictional) criminal suspects in five global cities in just 12 hours.
Tags: technology , science , State Department , TAG Challenge , Manuel Cebrian , Joshua deLara , social networking , law enforcement , DoD , DARPA , Jared Serbu
DARPA challenge unshreds destroyed documents
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wanted to know how quickly people could put shredded documents together again. The answer: pretty quickly.
Tags: DARPA , technology , shredder , DoD , cybersecurity , University of California San Diego , Manuel Cebrian , Norm Whittaker , Dan Kaufman , Jared Serbu
Analysis: Prioritizing key to VanRoekel's future success
Dan Mintz, former Transportation Department CIO, found much to like in Steven VanRoekel's first major speech.
Tags: Dan Mintz , Powertek , Steven VanRoekel , CIO , In Depth , Future First , TechAmerica , OMB , technology , IT , cybersecurity , policy , management
USAID will crowdsource for ideas on solving world issues
Agency using Web 2.0 tools to get ideas from all over the world.
Tags: technology , USAID , crowdsource , Dave Ferguson , Dorothy Ramienski
USGS mobilizes Web 2.0 to better understand natural disasters
The agency mines data from YouTube, Twitter and other social media tools to ascertain what's happening on the ground during earthquakes. Did You Feel It? Web site makes it easier for the public to submit their experiences after the earth shakes. USGS also is considering new early warning alert system that would tell the public before earthquakes hit the surface.
Tags: technology , Mike Blanpied , USGS , NOAA , Web 2.0 , earthquake
Bus stops, crowdsourcing and your agency
Tags: technology , Daren Brabham , Next Stop Design
Congressman uses crowdsourcing to redesign Web site
Tags: technology , Rep. Mike Honda , Web 2.0 , government 2.0
Sunlight Foundation's mock SCOTUS site now online
Tags: technology , SCOTUS , SCOTUSht Foundation , Daniel Schuman
