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More Israel impressions
Blogger Steve Kelman reports on a visit to the West Bank (and adds a World Cup twist).
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Talking Telework
On Thursday, June 24, I'll be moderating a webinar on federal telework initiatives and what's next for telework across the federal government. As I've written about before in Wired Workplace, Congress is <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/05/senate_passes_telework_bill.php">considering legislation</a> that would eventually require 20 percent of the eligible federal workforce to telework at least one day per week. The Office of Personnel Management also is piloting a <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/04/working_where_and_when_you_want.php?oref=search">Results-Only Work Environment</a> program that allows 400 federal employees to decide when and where to work, as long as they meet high performance standards.
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Health IT Lobby Hits Capitol Hill
Lobbyists gathered in Washington, D.C., for National Health IT Week are blanketing Capitol Hill and pushing a three-point agenda.
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Senate cybersecurity bill gets high-ranking backers in the House
Senior lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee have expressed support for a comprehensive proposal to bolster computer security that was introduced last week by their counterparts in the Senate.
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Florida site catches what the Census missed
The cloud-based platform will become a redistricting tool next year, using Census data collected this year.
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Supreme Court upholds search of a police officer's messages
Justices avoid tackling the broader question of how much privacy government employees can expect when texting on work devices.
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DHS official thinks future of virtual border fence project is bleak
Executive director of the Secure Border Initiative says the electronic surveillance program 'already doesn't look like a wise thing to do.'
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GSA developing system to track buildings' energy and water use
Effort is in response to a Government Accountability Office report that found the agency doesn't have the appropriate data to track the $4.5 billion in green building projects funded by the Recovery Act.
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Navy CIO Carey Casts Off
Rob Carey, the Navy's chief information officer, said in a statement he expects to weigh anchor and move to a new position inside government, most likely by the end of the summer.
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Where's Your BlackBerry?
That's a question that 13 employees of the Veterans Affairs Department would have a hard time answering, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said in a call with reporters on Wednesday. The unlucky 13 reported they lost their portable gizmos in the month of May.
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Security concerns persist about microchips used in smart devices
The military's use of smart phones and similar products could force the U.S. to confront the geopolitics of microchip manufacturing, blogger Brian Robinson writes.
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Tougher Standards for Cyber Training?
The federal government must create robust training standards for cybersecurity workers and continually validate that those standards are effective, an expert on cybersecurity issues told a Senate committee on Tuesday.
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The Default Problem for EMRs
Leaving systems on default settings have been a big problem for computer users when it comes to <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090729_2566.php>peer to peer programs</a> and even <a href=http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2007/09/hacking_so_easy_a_cave_man_can.php>major networks</a>.
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