Agencies are turning to innovation challenges as a way to solve problems and get people from outside the government involved in coming up with solutions. The White House launched Challenge.gov Tuesday and 15 agencies already are using the platform to hold contests. DoD has four challenges on the platform looking at a variety of issues.
Open Government and transparency seems to the be the theme of the day today at Federal News Radio.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and is now helping federal agencies with opening up their data.
The University of North Texas has archived a list of \"dead\" government websites.
Author William Powers tells DorobekInsider about the idea behind his new book.
Long-time privacy and cybersecurity expert to join the government to work on similar issues. EPA\'s Lisa Schlosser also takes on a new role at her agency.
The Justice Department\'s new report finds that the number of partial documents released last year increased by 50,000. Many agencies also reduced their backlog of FOIA requests. Agencies say some of improvements can be attributed to increased attention across the government and better technology.
Social collaboration sites, blogs, and wikis are helping most agencies boost public participation and innovation. But what are Web 2.0 tools doing on the privacy and security front? Greg Wilshusen, Director of Information Security Issues at GAO, tells us with the Government Accountability Office has found.
Today’s Federal News Countdown panel includes two OMB vets: —Dan Chenok, Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government —Tim Young, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP And their choices for the three most important…
Recovery.gov, the site that tracks the recovery act spending, is widely praised as one of the most innovative sites in government. Now one of the companies that created the website has won a contract to…
One of the creators of the site explains why his company did what it did.