Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity report coming soon

The Obama administration expects to make public in the coming days the results of its 60-day cybersecurity review, according to the official who led that evaluation.

Digital Government

Veterans frustrated over inaccessible, slow online benefits system

New site to receive applications to help pay for veterans' education under the new GI bill becomes overloaded on first day.

Cybersecurity

Industry: protecting cyberspace calls for financial incentives

Excessive oversight stifles public-private collaboration to protect networks, lawmakers told.

Digital Government

Bipartisan support builds for bailout tracking database

Current TARP Web site lacks comprehensive information on activity outside Treasury.

Digital Government

Senators want congressional research available to the public

Bills making reports accessible online failed in the past, but the resolution has more chance of passing the Senate because of Obama's push for transparency.

Digital Government

What Feds Need Masks?

During a Thursday afternoon Web cast on the swine flu with top federal officials from the Health and Human and Services Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano received an e-mailed question from a Transportation Security Administration worker wondering about the use of face masks.

Digital Government

The Swine Flu Web Talk Show

The Obama administration has deployed all kinds of nifty <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/04/fighting_swine_flu_online.php>Web tools</a> to inform the public about the current outbreak of swine flu - which the Health and Human and Services Department now calls the H1N1 variant of influenza - including a Web cast this afternoon with top federal officials in a format most Americans find comfortable: a talk show.

Ideas

For Google, Public Not Always Public

Google this week piloted a new <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html">feature</a> that, according to the company, "makes it easy to find and compare public data," but, in reality, Google itself can't find a lot of the public data out there.

People

Official: Some flu money would go to states

The president's request for $1.5 billion to deal with the swine flu outbreak includes money to help states respond to the disease, an HHS official said.