Digital Government
Committee makes recommendations on electronic health records use
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Reporting rules needed to make open government work
If federal officials are to take full advantage of the economic stimulus spending data, recipients must follow standards for submitting information, geospatial expert says.
Digital Government
Contractors will see 2.5 percent drop in quarterly revenue, research firm says
Weather-related federal closures have affected companies with mid-Atlantic operations.
Digital Government
Panel asks HHS to be flexible with electronic health records rules
Clinicians and hospitals should be allowed to defer up to six of the 25 standards for the digital files and the information they provide.
Digital Government
It's Time for Google Croissants
Google, it seems, thinks it can do almost anything better than anybody, from its core search business to <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100211_9967.php?oref=topnews>broadband networks</a> to <a href=http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/exclusive-google-nexus-one-hands-on-video-and-first-impressio/>mobile phones</a>.
Ideas
Crowd-Sourced Digitization Kicks Off
A new experiment in crowd-sourced digitization kicked off last week with the inaugural meeting of the International Amateur Scanning League. This new club's first task will be to organize its volunteers to digitize 1,500 DVDs from the National Archives and Records Administration so that the content can be shared on YouTube, the Internet Archive and Public.Resource.Org's Public Domain Stock Footage Theater for free.
Ideas
The Administration in 140 Characters
The Democratic National Committee last week announced a new job opening sure to invite a flood of responses. The position? <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/socnetsmanager" target="blank">Social networks manager</a>, otherwise known as Barack Obama's twitterer.
Ideas
DARPA's Mad Science?
Wired had a field day decrying Darpa's proposed project, BioDesign, as a "mad science" project to "re-write the laws of evolution to the military's advantage, creating 'synthetic organisms' that can live forever -- or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch." If that sounded just a little alarming, the fine print of Darpa's FY2011 budget didn't help placate enraged readers.
Digital Government
The C-level goes green
The General Services Administration is looking for a c-level executive to oversee the development and execution of “greening strategies” for public buildings.
Digital Government
Recruiting Vets for Info Security Jobs
Commission and now the new director of government affairs for (ISC)2, said he has been working with (ISC)2, the Government Advisory Board and the Information Systems Security Association for more than two years on an initiative that aims to bring more veterans into federal information security jobs. "They [veterans] are particularly adept, already trained and have security clearances," he said. "That would be a golden opportunity to take advantage of."
Modernization
Snowfuggedaboudit: Practical experience reveals telework isn't as easy as it sounds
Althogh this winter's record-breaking mid-Atlantic snowfall provided the perfect opportunity for telework to prove itself, some who tried it found that it's easier said than done.
Cybersecurity
Cyberattack simulation highlights vulnerabilities
A simulation exercise today showed the legal and technical problems a cyberattack could cause.
People
10 suggestions for improving the USA.gov feedback process
Blogger John Klossner writes that nothing productive will come of the online suggestion process until we return to a world without anonymity, and offers 10 ideas to make the process more productive, as well as more entertaining.
Digital Government