Digital Government
Agency sustainability plans show the challenges of going green
Technology will play a key role in meeting new conservation and greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Digital Government
Communication among public safety agencies like talking into a brick
Disaster response experts say emergency responders need broadband to communicate and to support advanced technology.
Digital Government
Holistic Worker Comm
The leaders at the Defense Logistic Agency's Disposition Services outfit, which sells or finds a way to reuse surplus or outmoded military property, has such poor employee communications that it decided it needed some outside help to develop a <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=13555f4deab36ec01bf4cc120dab4f7e&_cview=0>management transformation thingy</a>.
Digital Government
Health IT Skirts Care Management
The impending large-scale deployment of health information technology seeks to dramatically improve health care, yet those technologies frequently fail to integrate care management systems that can dramatically influence efficiencies and clinical outcomes, according to results of a new survey.
Cybersecurity
Malware Toolkit
Antivirus is no guarantee of a clean, well functioning computer. There are times IT professionals need to manually clean their machines. As such, a topic of conversation for a computer advisory board I read regularly has been on toolkits for infected workstations. The toolkit addresses removing malware from these infected workstations. One member suggested the below steps, those of which seemed like a reasonable approach:
People
Telework pilot projects: From acclimation to adaptation and adoption
One of the most effective ways to overcome management resistance to telework is to start with a pilot project, experts say.
People
4 reasons why managers resist telework--and why they might be wrong
We asked federal managers to share their concerns about telework and then asked management experts to address those concerns. The bottom line? It all comes down to performance management.
People
GSA's former chief financial officer tackles a leadership void
Kathleen Turco jumped at the opportunity to be associate administrator of governmentwide policy at the General Services Administration earlier this year — in part because she saw an opportunity to fill a leadership vacuum.
Digital Government
Army seeks smart 'bots in virtual world
The Army Research Lab wants the best ideas for its Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge.
People
Workforce morale can be sapped by unskillled managers
A recent study shows that employees are often dissatisfied with supervisors who have technical rather than managerial chops, writes columnist Steve Kelman.
People
Obama's performance agenda: Stealthy and radical
Emerging performance initiatives could become the foundation for the collaborative governance models of the future, writes John M. Kamensky, a senior fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
Digital Government
How to move past the FISMA mind-set
Federal agencies are paying a price for trying to minimize all possible information security risks, write two top security officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Cybersecurity
Now That's Ironic
Oh the irony: According to a report released Thursday by the DHS inspector general, the very system used by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to exchange and access mission-critical data about the security posture of civilian networks was vulnerable to attack.
People
Summit covers wide range of Web 2.0 topics
High-level speakers at the Gov 2.0 Summit provided wide-ranging discussions about Web 2.0 applications, public engagement, freeing government data for public use and energizing the open government community.
Ideas
Cementing the State-Silicon Valley Relationship
State Department Policy Planning staff official Jared Cohen announced this week that he would be leaving the administration to head a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015705-265.html">new "think/do tank" at Google</a>, a move that cements the growing link between Silicon Valley and the State Department.
Digital Government
Taiwan launches cloud initiative
Taiwan's government has a five-year program to make that nation more competitive in the global cloud computing market.
Digital Government