Digital Government
Strangling Google in China?
Steve Kelman finds unexpected search-engine difficulties while traveling in a foreign land.
Digital Government
Keeping time (and tune) with students in Shanghai
Steve Kelman enjoys an evening of karaoke and bottled water.
Cybersecurity
DHS pleased with immigration info-sharing pilot program
The first phase of a joint U.S.-Canada effort includes collecting data and reconciling records.
Digital Government
USAID tackles mobility in the developing world
USAID's mission demands a very different approach to mobile projects than other agencies take.
Digital Government
Chinese company drops U.S. market
As laws restricting the ability of some major agencies to purchase from Chinese firms take hold, one company sets its sights elsewhere.
People
Taking the social-media pulse of Chinese students
Steve Kelman quizzes visiting Chinese students on their use of social media in the repressive Chinese regime.
Digital Government
Meeting the first dean of China's first business school
Steve Kelman meets Professor Yingluo Wang, a pioneer of Chinese business education.
Digital Government
Mass consumption in China
A Harvard professor encounters China's burgeoning consumer culture.
Digital Government
To learn more, keep quiet
Observing a conference in a Muslim country during Ramadan provides a lesson about the value of understanding other cultures.
Digital Government
Visiting Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Spain
A trip to deliver a lecture leads to cultural opportunities.
Digital Government
Dispatches from China
Observations on Chinese consumer culture from Steve Kelman.
Digital Government
Who are China's Americaphiles?
Are most Chinese people interested in friendship with America, or domination? Steve Kelman asks the question.
Digital Government
Open government effort makes big promises of enhanced transparency
U.S.-India open initiative to democratize government information.
People
John Koskinen: Y2K revisited
John Koskinen helped the U.S. brace for Y2K -- and in doing so changed federal IT.
Digital Government
DOD needs new tech for Asia, Panetta says
As the U.S. military shifts its focus to the Asia-Pacific region, it will need to develop new technologies, its leader says.
Digital Government
Kelman gets schooled in China
A Harvard professor visits a university on the other side of the world.
Digital Government
China patterns: Universities, government and the Internet
The Chinese government hasn't forgotten Tiananmen Square Steve Kelman learns.
Digital Government
A frontline dispatch from Spain, a country in crisis
Steve Kelman finds that Spain's economic worries are not obvious on the surface.
Digital Government
Korea copes with multiculturalism
Steve Kelman observes how Korea's culture is become much more ethnically diverse.
Modernization