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

FCC buying emergency notification system

Federal Computer Week

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

Obama's Secrecy Record Is Mixed

An annual report card on the Obama administration's secrecy track record found slight decreases in secrecy in the last year of the Bush-Cheney administration and a very mixed performance by Obama in upholding his promise of unprecedented transparency.