Cybersecurity
Geospatial director: Make your data accessible
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency does not routinely share its information with the public, but after a recent natural disaster, the agency opened up its data with positive results.
Cybersecurity
CBP website helps track trade violations
The retooled site for processing trade data is part of the DHS agency’s Automated Commercial Environment.
Cybersecurity
Don't be too sure about the state of your security
Cyberthreat Defense Report sheds light on global cybersecurity measures
Cybersecurity
Study: Biz data collection a bigger worry than government
Three-quarters of those polled were more concerned about privacy than they were a year ago, and more cited business data collection, rather than government surveillance programs, as the reason.
Digital Government
Data collection up at ports of entry
CBP said it processed more than 360 million travelers at U.S. air, land and sea ports in fiscal 2013.
Digital Government
What makes Chinese students optimistic (and pessimistic) about the future of China?
Steve Kelman details what's really on his students' minds.
Digital Government
Video: State's new push to recruit citizen mappers
The MapGive project is crowdsourcing tasks to improve geodata for humanitarian efforts.
Acquisition
China supply chain restrictions softened in funding bill
The fiscal 2014 omnibus spending measure would relax rules on technology trade with China.
Modernization
Microsoft pushes back against surveillance
The company plans to strengthen encryption of customer data and take a more active role in challenging efforts to collect information on users.
Cybersecurity
Global study reveals lack of IT preparedness
In the public sector, 59 percent of respondents said funding was the biggest limiting factor in their organization’s tech project success.
People
The pitfalls of public-private partnerships
A case in China gives Steve Kelman an example of potentials and problems when government and the private sector collaborate.
Acquisition
Swedes debate procurement, competition and public services
Steve Kelman looks at what another nation's policies can teach us about public management.
Digital Government
A public/private partnership that is saving lives
Steve Kelman explains why a Swedish emergency response system is a model for future cooperation.
Digital Government
World to US: You are destroying yourself!
As the world watches the government shutdown and the debt ceiling debate, America's reputation sinks.
Digital Government
More Florentine observations
Steve Kelman discovers a new level of tourism in Italy.
Digital Government
International pact helps NOAA mitigate satellite data loss
A five-year agreement between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites at least partially helps offset a potential gap in polar-orbiting weather satellite coverage.
People
Berry to say 'g'day' to Australia
Obama taps former OPM chief as ambassador to the land down under.
Cybersecurity
U.S. teams with unexpected new cyber ally
The United States and Russia put aside differences on some issues to join forces in cyberspace.
Acquisition
Can feds harness the global workforce?
Steve Kelman wonders if vendors offering vastly lower prices thanks to global competition would capture the government's attention.
Digital Government