Digital Government
Plugging the Generation Gap
<em>Psychology Today</em> has some <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/200909/why-are-you-not-me-the-generational-gap-in-the-workplace">useful advice</a> about what employers and managers should know and do to address generational differences in the workplace, especially as the economy recovers. Because of the impact of the recession, the article states, a large portion of Generation Y entering the workforce combined with the refusal of Baby Boomers to take retirement has dramatically shifted the combination of the workforce.
Cybersecurity
Trust, but let Google verify: Companies join government in identity authentication experiment
The OpenID and Information Card foundations today announced pilot identity management projects with federal agencies and vendors.
Digital Government
Commission to start preliminary certifications for EHRs
A group that certifies electronic health records will give health care providers a head start on getting incentive payments under the economic stimulus law.
Digital Government
Open Government Directive only weeks away
Agencies will need formal plans on providing machine-readable data to the public.
People
Get a Life!: Improving Hiring
A recent report warns that government needs to hire 11,500 workers in IT by 2012. But skeptics warn that with the current hiring process, it ain’t gonna happen.
Digital Government
i4i rebuts ‘each and every’ Microsoft Word defense
Plaintiff i4i files a responding brief in the Microsoft Word dispute, rebutting Microsoft’s defenses.
Digital Government
Feds' hiring processes discourage qualified applicants, report finds
Government Computer News
Digital Government
GAO: Pentagon must improve systems acquisition process
Defense has not fully complied with 2003 authorization provisions meant to facilitate better IT purchases, congressional watchdog finds.
Digital Government
Program to track citizen border crossings exceeds expectations
New system speeds security checks for travelers at land and sea ports, DHS official says.
Digital Government
Government takes on new data services role
Web sites such as Recovery.gov and Data.gov are making federal statistics and information widely meaningful, technology executives say.
Ideas