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Open gov unleashed in a flurry of plans
Reaction to the latest round of agency plans was muted last week — not by a lack of interest but by the overwhelming volume of information.
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VA highlights IT innovation, crowdsourcing in open government plan
Among other initiatives, the VA plans to set up ongoing competition to come up with new ideas for improving the agency's services and operations.
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New lifeline for the poor and underprivileged arrives via mobile health
Because of White House involvement, Text4baby is probably the most high-profile example of mobile health. Its success is likely to give more attention to a health information technology approach that has been in development for at least three years and is on the cusp of expanded federal regulation.
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What's on Sonya Thompson's bookshelf?
The deputy assistant director/chief information officer of the Federal Bureau of Prisons shares her current favorites.
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The CIO 14 years later: Power vs. paperwork
Fourteen years after Clinger-Cohen established the job, CIOs still struggle for real control.
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The CIOs' growing workload
Since their position was created in 1996, federal chief information officers have experienced an increasing workload of compliance requirements.
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So you want to be a CIO?
Here are the competencies that successful government chief information officers need.
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Data mining:
The United States fell a couple of notches from third to fifth place in the World Economic Forum's information technology rankings.
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Nobel Prize-worthy economic theory has lessons worth learning for federal IT
An award-winning economic theory offers insight into three important federal IT trends, Warren Suss writes.
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Coming to terms with FaceSpace
The defining question for any CIO today is whether they allow their employees to access the latest, greatest hits of Web 2.0.
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People on the move, events in the news
The FOSE trade show, which ran concurrently with GovSec/U.S. Law, was the big draw in late March. Participants filled the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington.
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Acquisition training: The classroom vs. the real world
FCW readers agree with a recent blog post that questioned the quality of acquisition training available to federal employees.
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OPM’s latest workplace experiments
OPM’s Results-Only Work Environment is a good example of how to bring management innovation into government, writes blogger Steve Kelman.
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Agencies release transparency roadmaps
The Obama administration and open-government groups are reviewing the open government plans that agencies released today.
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OMB issues transparency rules for federal spending
The Office of Management and Budget, in keeping with the Open Government Directive, is setting rules that aim to increase the transparency of government spending.
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Telework unlocks workplace flexibility, union leader says
An expanded telework program is one of the best ways to bring real flexibility to the federal workplace, Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said at a White House forum to examine the state of flexible work arrangements.
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VA, DOD to expand virtual EHR program
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are expanding demonstration projects of VLER electronic records program, officials said today.
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Health IT data security crude in some companies, says CMS CIO
Julie Boughn, the chief information officer for Medicare and Medicaid, says companies that want to work with her agency often display amateurish data security.
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DFAS halts policy that fired employees over credit scores
Following a congressional inquiry, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service on March 30 announced that it would temporarily shelve a policy that suspended or terminated DFAS employees who posted low credit scores.
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