Digital Government
Three more China observations
Back in Shanghai, Steve Kelman reflects on hostility to Japan, a pipeline disaster and how linguistics can shape politics.
People
Addressing 'second-generation' gender bias
Women are woefully rare in IT management positions, and fixing that demands a concerted effort.
Cybersecurity
Students’ vision tests and personal data eyed online
Education // Healthcare and Public Health // Illinois, United States
Cybersecurity
Australian government data found on for-sale thumb drives
Government (Foreign) // Manufacturing // Australia
Cybersecurity
Malware accesses data on 90,000 patients
Healthcare and Public Health // Washington, United States
Digital Government
Report: HIPAA is a hindrance to health care info sharing
Some of the problems with the health care privacy law echo complaints about the intelligence community in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Digital Government
NARA looks to bring agency records into the 21st century
NARA's goal is to simplify the process for transferring agency records to the archive.
Emerging Tech
We the Ukrainian People
The White House site has been flooded with petitions related to violence in the former Soviet state.
Cybersecurity
Seizure Sunday Precedes Cyber Monday
ICE seized nearly 300 websites selling phony goods before the online shopping spree.
Digital Government
Grunt With Me at the Bataan Memorial Death March
It’s the 25th anniversary of the commemorative march.
Emerging Tech
Australia and China Are Beating Amazon in the Commercial Drone Race
Meet Flirtey and Shunfeng.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon ponders going mobile with CAC
Any solution in this "very complicated field" will have to reach beyond the Defense Department.
Digital Government
Navy Deploys First High-Tech Surveillance Aircraft to Okinawa
Okinawa is 260 miles east of new China air defense zone.
People
Zients: HealthCare.gov much improved, but still in progress
The site can now accommodate 50,000 simultaneous users, and a "virtual waiting room" has been established for times when demand exceeds capacity.
People
TechAmerica, ITI trade accusations
ITI is seeking dismissal of TechAmerica's lawsuit alleging misconduct by the rival that hired three of its senior procurement lobbyists.
Digital Government
HP Lovecraft on Big Data
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
Emerging Tech
Here's a Climate Change Fix: a Giant Solar Power Plant on the Moon
Imagined by Japan, staffed by robots.
Digital Government
Big data, Big Brother and you
Big data is a tool -- like a hammer or a gun or a car -- that can be used for good and ill alike.
Digital Government
The Biggest News in the Healthcare.gov Report: Just How Bad It Was
In order to boast how far the federal site has come, HHS laid out how bad it used to be.
Emerging Tech