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Meet the Digital Service Guru Who’s Helping New Recruits Navigate the Federal Bureaucracy
Nextgov sat down with Erie Meyer to get more insight into how she helps new recruits maneuver through a Mt. Everest of government regulations, rules and guidelines.
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Video: Open Data and Improving Quality of Life
The seventh installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
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Behind the Scenes of the White House's TechHire Initiative
With thousands of tech jobs sitting unfilled, the White House has launched the TechHire initiative to help the hiring process along.
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GSA Announces IT Leadership Shuffle
The agency is losing both its CIO and the executive director of its digital office.
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State Department IG weighs in on broader email concerns
Report offers seven recommendations "to improve the use of record emails by Department of State employees and mission staff members."
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Meet the Agencies: Touring the US Forest Service’s Modern New Digs
The agency is now saving $5 million a year on rent and $200,000 a year on shuttle buses.
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Infosys Is Taking on the Biggest Problem in Tech: Getting Women to the Top
Infosys has set up a gender diversity council that would identify potential women leaders.
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Are Medicaid IT Systems the Weak Link in Detecting Improper Payments?
Only three out of 10 states had ways to evaluate their systems for detecting and preventing improper payments, according to the GAO report.
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Do Tech Companies Owe It to the Public to Cooperate With Surveillance?
Private firms have become uneasy about keeping tabs on customers, but they should put collective safety ahead of profit.
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Wikipedia Is Suing NSA
"By tapping the backbone of the Internet, the NSA is straining the backbone of democracy.”
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How not to drown in your agency's data
A new case study details the Education Department's efforts to get ahead of data disclosure challenges.
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Census Needs to Straighten Out Plans for 2020 Internet Option, Watchdog Says
Five years before the Census is expected to implement its Internet-response tool, GAO has already noticed a handful of glaring blunders.
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Why the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Has Eyes on the Arctic
NGA’s focus on the North Pole could allow the agency to go even more open source.
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Applying for Federal Jobs? Uncle Sam’s Career Site To Get a Facelift
The Obama administration wants to make the notoriously creaky federal jobs portal more user friendly.
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Video: Open Data in the UK
The sixth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
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Clinton's printed emails a headache for archivists
Printed emails aren't searchable, don't retain all metadata and aren't necessarily threaded in a way that gives a chronological account of an exchange.
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Here’s How Silicon Valley Tech Companies Welcome You on Your First Day
Companies big and small are welcoming employees with open arms—and maybe also a bottle of booze.
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NHTSA can't get on the road again
Implementing a new crash-data system requires travel that the highway safety agency says it can't afford.
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Isis -- No, Not That One -- Wins $7 Million Pentagon Cyber Contract
The Pentagon has hired a little-known Virginia startup with an unfortunate name to work on a big data project.
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