Digital Government
Working in an Open Office? Set Rules About Noise With Your Neighbors
Setting boundaries is important.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Firm Defends DNC Hacking Alert That Turned Out to be a False Alarm
Fast responses to cyber threats and perfect accuracy don’t always go hand in hand, a cyber pro who worked on the alleged DNC hacking attempt says.
Modernization
White House Unveils More Details About Proposed Modernization Center
Officials expect to establish the future-focused GEAR Center in the next year.
Digital Government
Apple, IBM, and Google Don’t Care Anymore if You Went to College
Companies will hire the candidates whose experience and skills best suit them for the job.
Ideas
Key Areas Governments Can Benefit from Social Media
Real-time communications with citizens are just one of the advantages of a social media plan.
Emerging Tech
Slack Was Able to Become a $7 Billion Company by Playing Nice With Others
Slack’s ethos is one of inclusion
Emerging Tech
Teaching Kids to Code During the Summer—for $1,000 a Week
Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?
Emerging Tech
This Desk Changes When It Senses Your Stress At Work
The desk is a combination of technology, psychology, and design.
Ideas
The Federal Workforce is Shrinking—Let Technology Help
Agencies could turn to platforms that help manage the information employees currently manage and process.
Ideas
How to Improve Federal Networks for a Better End-User Experience
Agencies can modernize as they optimize.
Digital Government
How to Persuade Your Company’s Product Team to Build Something
Communicating with engineers, designers and data scientists doesn't have to be difficult.
Digital Government
USDA Wants One Hub to Connect Agency Leaders to Every Employee
The agency wants to pull disparate intranets together and allow two-way communications with employees.
Cybersecurity
One Agency Plans to Lock Employees In a Room Until They Learn Cyber Hygiene
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will be locking employees in escape rooms to test their knowledge of cybersecurity.
Digital Government
NSA Director: The Agency 'Sells Itself' to Potential Recruits
Nakasone tells industry group of 92 percent retention rate, need for diversity.
Ideas
Governments Need to Re-tool the IT Workforce (Again)
Leaders should encourage change agents, and those government workers will need to develop and maintain certain skills and capabilities.
Cybersecurity
Federal Insider Threat Programs Prevent Multiple Suicides Each Year
Experts said suicide prevention has been an unintended byproduct of insider threat programs.
Digital Government
It Just Got Cheaper for Agencies to Run Training Programs
The General Service Administration and Office of Personnel Management lowered the access fees on the $11 billion training vehicle.
Digital Government