Digital Government
Benefits of Web 2.0
A new <a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/BT_Strategy/How_companies_are_benefiting_from_Web_20_McKinsey_Global_Survey_Results_2432">survey</a> by consultant McKinsey and Company of nearly 1,700 executives from around the world found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believe that their companies have gained measureable benefits from Web 2.0 and social networking tools. Successful companies also are not only tightly integrating Web 2.0 technologies with the workflows of their employees but are also creating a "networked company," linking themselves with customers and suppliers through the use of Web 2.0 tools, the study found. With the current recession, respondents overwhelmingly said they will continue to invest in Web 2.0.
Cybersecurity
Report: Government secrecy down slightly in 2008
An annual report says government secrecy decreased slightly in the last year of the Bush administration.
Ideas
NOAA's Take on 'Cloud Computing'
It may seem as if weather forecasters are more often wrong than they are right, but the Commerce Department's National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is hoping to change that by installing a new supercomputer for weather and climate prediction.
Digital Government
The Federal Virtual World Challenge
The Army Research and Development Engineering Command is looking for more than a few good virtual worlds, and has kicked of a <a href=http://www.fvwc.army.mil/>real world challenge</a> to find the best for itself, the Homeland Security Department, NASA and other federal agencies.
Cybersecurity
One appeal fails, another pending today for E-Verify
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other plaintiffs have filed another appeal in attempt to stop the E-Verify rule from going into effect today for federal contractors, according to a media report.
Cybersecurity
FCC buying emergency notification system
The FCC is buying an emergency notification system to keep in touch with responder agencies and taking other steps to improve its disaster communications capabilities, its chairman said today.
Modernization
Audit: IRS killed online project just before deployment
The IRS hopes to revive a canceled project to allow taxpayers to view their tax records online, according to an audit.
Digital Government
Poor planning led to IRS killing personal online tax accounts project
Agency executives determined that they needed a long-term strategy to improve services to taxpayers, according to an inspector general report.
Digital Government
Report gives Obama administration mixed review on secrecy practices
White House receives high and low marks for transparency memo, seeking input on classification policy and for its overhaul of stimulus tracking Web site, open government group says.
Digital Government
GSA dominates list of 10 most popular contracts
GSA vehicles capture six of the 10 most popular contracts, according to an 1105 Government Information Group survey.
Digital Government
Huh? Air Force Blocks Pentagon Channel
The Air Force -- and let's make it really clear, we're talking here about the U.S. Air Force headquartered in the Pentagon -- has blocked computer access to the <a href=http://www.pentagonchannel.mil/>Pentagon Channel</a>, the Defense Department's 24/7 news channel designed to provide personnel with "more timely access to military information and news."
Ideas