Digital Government
Senate Health Care Bill: Reader Beware
If you really want to ruin your day, try reading and comprehending the health care bill, which I did Tuesday and much of Wednesday.
Ideas
On Deck: The Cyber Deputy
After a long wait, the country finally has it's first cybersecurity czar in the person of Howard Schmidt. Like most of the experts, having interviewed Schmidt I'm well aware the depth of his experience and expertise in this area. But any federal manager is only as good as the people who support him, which is why I was very interested to see <a href="http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=1848282">this report</a> from Jason Miller of FedNewsRadio about his potential deputy:
Digital Government
The word on Word
The ramifications of the Microsoft Word case will be small for most users.
Digital Government
OPM Plans Facelift of USAJobs
The Office of Personnel Management is making a new year's resolution for 2010: overhaul USAJobs.gov, the government's primary job search Web site. According to a <a href="http://www.usajobs.gov/newlaunchvideo.asp">video</a> on USAJobs, the new Web site, which will launch on Jan. 23, will be easier to navigate, more streamlined and more personal. Federal job applicants will be able to better refine job search results, as well as share job search information on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking Web sites.
Digital Government
A Different Take on Jobs Outlook
eWeek's Careers blog has an interesting <a href="http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/hiring/specialized_it_skills_to_dominate_2010_tech_jobs_report.html">post</a> about how the outlook for IT hiring in 2010 may not be as bright as many research firms have speculated.
Digital Government
HHS pumps $60M into research on health IT adoption
HHS officials today announced a new program with $60 million for research on overcoming the barriers to adoption of electronic health records.
Digital Government
Part 3: Data is key to transition to Networx and beyond
Data collection is at the heart of GSA's efforts to move from FTS 2001 to Networx as well as laying the foundation for future transitions, says Karl Krumbholz.
Digital Government
States and local agencies take to clouds, report finds
State and local governments will adopt cloud computing, virtualization, service-oriented architecture, open-source software and geospatial technologies at an accelerating rate over the next five years, according to a new Input report.
Digital Government
VA security scholarship program delayed until 2011
A program enacted in 2006 to help the Veterans Affairs Department beef up its information security expertise by offering financial assistance to doctoral students and those who recently earned doctorates still is more than a year away from awarding its first scholarship, according to a report made to Congress.
Cybersecurity
For Tom Talleur, cybersecurity is a bad situation about to get worse
Former NASA and Defense forensic technologist says agencies are wide open to cyberattack, and it will only get worse as other advanced technologies begin to become more ubiquitous.
Digital Government
Education, IRS try to make filing student aid form less daunting
A process will automatically fill in financial data from an IRS Web site, eliminating what has been a time-consuming task that discouraged many students from filing for aid.
People
4 year-end predictions for government 2.0
Gov 2.0 maven Mark Drapeau offers some non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas that he foresees taking shape in the next year or so.
Digital Government
Kundra talks about a new day for government data
In an interview with ExecutiveBiz, the federal CIO talks about how a “whole new industry” could evolve around Data.gov.
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