Digital Government
Pulling an about-Facebook on privacy
By requiring that each of its 350 million users to set their own privacy settings -- and making the process easy to understand -- Facebook is trying to part of the solution.
Digital Government
Bill calls for evaluation of jamming prisoners' illegal cell phones
Prisoners use mobile phones to run drug rings, plan jail breaks, and intimidate judges and victims, but industry argues blocking signals could interfere with police radios.
Digital Government
Open government could present a challenge to intelligence agencies
Transparency advocates say recently released directive changes the circumstances driving the decisions to keep some information from being posted online.
Digital Government
Lawmakers want to bar sites from posting sensitive government docs
Wired: Threat Level
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Senator presses administration for improvements in stimulus data
The chairman of the Budget Committee's Task Force on Government Performance, pressed the Obama administration's top technology officials Thursday to ensure there will not be a repeat of the problems with the data posted during the first round of reporting on federal economic stimulus spending.
Digital Government
So Many Earmarks, So Little Time
The 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Bill bundles spending for six departments - Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, State and Veterans Affairs - into one Brobdingnagian pile of paper that makes it hard to figure out earmarks.
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Labor-Management Forums Created
President Obama on Wednesday signed an <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44213&dcn=todaysnews">executive order creating labor-management forums</a> within the government. The order creates forums at the agency level as well as a National Council on Federal Labor Management, which will include all of the major federal unions and employee groups and will be led by the deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget and the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
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Nominate Your Favorite Fed
The Partnership for Public Service announced on Wednesday that nominations are now open for the 2010 Service to America Medals awards program for federal employees.
Digital Government
Droid does it better
The new Verizon Wireless Droid by Motorola is a phone that could really change the industry, and the way the federal government does its job.
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Top IT officials say transparency will improve project management
Chief information and technology officers tell senators open government directive will increase oversight of investments.
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Tech firm stands accused of contract manipulation
Three Texas companies file a motion against GTSI for circumventing competitive bidding requirements.
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