"e-Gov" archive
Monday 11 April
- Accenture: eGov has promise. Just follow our instructions... (17:46) - Last week GCN reported on Accenture's new paper which asserts that e-government hasn't achieved all the objectives it was articulated as addressing but that it still has potential. The paper goes on to outline four elements that should be addressed... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 6 April
- .Gov uses BitTorrent! (20:16) - Trust NASA to break new technological ground. For the first time ever (as far as I know), the government is using BitTorrent to distribute a file! It's accessible to anyone who wants to download NASA's World Wind, which "lets you... | 1 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 5 April
- FCW likes Firefox (17:02) - Finally. See, it takes a while for things to filter up (down?) to the government...... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Telework...again (16:57) - OMB is trying to persuade more Federal staff to telework or telecommute. They're speaking to the wrong people. | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 4 April
- Why doesn't it ever rain? (15:31) - I'm a business developer for a small systems integrator. My job involves creating, finding, and capitalizing on new opportunities for us to sell things to customers. What it boils down to is this: phone calls (LOTS of them), meetings (LOTS... | 2 Trackbacks
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Friday 25 March
- Japan govt supports OSS (08:43) - Apparently the Japanese government is funneling cash to support open source software development. What's especially great is that they're doing it very intelligently, or so it seems, by funding initiatives where they can uniquely add value, such as language packs... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Grants awardee database (08:33) - Government Computer News reports that Grants.gov is considering development of a consolidated grant awards database. I'm heavily involved in Federal grants management systems development (it's one of my company's core competencies) so this is intriguing news to me. The proposal... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 23 March
- Good summary of VCF disaster (14:25) - The FBI's Virtual Case File (aka "Trilogy") was a $176 million disaster. Who's to blame? The contractor (SAIC)? The customer? The complexity of technology today? Eric Knorr of InfoWorld provides a good overview of the situation and suggests some believable causes. | 0 Trackbacks
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- eGov initiatives up for more awards (07:26) - eGov initiatives get awards because they've made it known that they're useful to a bunch of people. If OMB wants more people to see the value of eGov services, they need to start telling them where to find it. Grants.gov has a good model, and history of success, that OMB could emulate elsewhere. | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 14 December
- CoolGov - indeed it is! (16:36) - I stumbled upon CoolGov shortly after it started up and it's now one of the few RSS feeds in my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. Every day Jon and and Elizabeth find something kooky, interesting, or useful in the vast Government etherspace.... | 168 Trackbacks
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- UK's commitment to e-gov (14:50) - The UK government claims that 96% of its services will be "e-enabled" within a year. If that means they have e-mail addresses, that's not enough, and again raises the question of just what exactly "e-gov" means and what it represents. | 86 Trackbacks
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Monday 13 December
Thursday 9 December
- UK simplifies IT acquisition terms (13:25) - Well the UK has finally cottoned onto the idea of standardized procurement terms for IT acquisitions. In the US, we have the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) for Civilian agencies, and the Defense FAR (DFAR) for DOD-related procurements. Those are their... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 3 December
- Hope for the Chief Architect (15:13) - So Dick Burk of HUD was finally named as the government's Chief Architect last week. In my view, this is a good appointment, and one that will hopefully maintain momentum in that office. Dick's done a great job over at... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 1 December
- Surprised by Boeing? (11:33) - I bet you're not. And if you are, you shouldn't be. The truth of it is, this kind of procurement manipulation is far more common than any of us like to believe. And this guy has got it partly right:... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 28 July
- Not at all fishy (14:23) - The Register reports that Flordia needs to hang more Chads, of the human kind this time, because they've lost records from the 2002 elections due to a server crash. I have absolutely no faith in electronic voting machines, and every... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 1 March
- EU e-gov portfolio proposed (14:59) - A European e-gov projects portfolio is proposed to collect lessons learned in e-gov from across Europe. Paired with the advent of the IDABC (Interoperable Delivery of pan-European e-Government Services to Public Administrations Businesses and Citizens), this seems like a true... | 10 Trackbacks
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- Sun+SoftwareAG develop interface to UK authentication gateway (13:45) - Software AG and Sin Microsystems have developed a gateway to the Government Gateway, the centralised registration service for e-Government services in the UK. This service is like the US e-Authentication effort which seems in constant limbo. The companies have effectively... | 123 Trackbacks
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Monday 23 February
- Get secure or lose your cash (00:07) - OMB is demanding that 18 agencies beef up their security or lose funding for development projects in 2005. As a vendor of development services, this alarms me enormously. But, at the same time, it's heartening to see Karen Evans (and... | 26 Trackbacks
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Friday 20 February
- Europe moves e-gov onward (15:52) - In another report from the UK's Government Computing, the European Commission has identified six new e-gov projects and will begin work on them this year. The contracts will be worth €9.5m and will be awarded this year. Of note, however,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Gershon 'apoplectic' (15:46) - According to the UK's Government Computing weekly e-mail, Sir Peter Gershon was "apoplectic" about the leak of his report regarding the radical overhaul of how government does business, which . Seems like news of this sort does make it out... | 129 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 18 February
- Canada e-gov: a road 2/3 travelled (10:22) - Canada is four years into their six year Government On-line plan and now the most difficult tasks remain. Seems like the normal way of doing things: do the easier stuff first and worry about the rest later. Having said that,... | 9 Trackbacks
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Monday 16 February
- UK considers e-gov cost savings (16:31) - People in the UK should compulsorily use electronic forms to do business with the government, says Sir Peter Gershon, head of the Office of Government Commerce in a new report on public services reform. The Financial Times reports that Sir... | 68 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 11 February
- i-gov (15:16) - Today I had lunch with a very interesting man called Frank (whose full name I won't reveal, lest he prefer otherwise) who has just started a new blog, i-Gov: Progress of electronic government (e-gov). The central notion of the blog... | 90 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 10 February
- IT contractors to UK govt: "Steady on, chap!" (22:49) - Nick Kalisperas, head of the public sector committee at Intellect (the UK association for IT companies), gave evidence to UK government MPs, reports The Register, claiming that the government is being too harsh in its contracting terms. It's always been... | 159 Trackbacks
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Monday 9 February
- Excellence.Gov awards (11:25) - On Thursday I went to the Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon, which was chronicled today in Federal Computer Week. The SBA, SEC, DHHS, DHS, and DISA all got major props but there were 20 other winners. One of those included the Do... | 13 Trackbacks
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- LMIT throws another wobbler (10:07) - The Washington Post is reporting that Lockheed Martin (who "never forget who they're working for") is taking another step to win back their $860 million contract at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from EDS. LMIT has been... | 46 Trackbacks
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- e-Gov: What I do every day (09:56) - The government needs help in improving their use of IT, and that's what I do every day. I'm hoping to track the major goings-on in e-gov -- events, people, projects, technologies -- from the perspective of someone working for a... | 69 Trackbacks
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