Information sharing
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When the history of government 2.0 is written, the intelligence community will get several chapters. In fact, I’m finishing up a pre-publish copy Harvard Business School Prof. Andrew McAfee’s wonderful book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative…
July 22, 2009 -
They say that journalism is the first draft of history. Well, with the transparency and openness out there these days, my guess is that most journalism is actually the second draft of history… with Tweets…
July 21, 2009 -
We’ve been following the controversy around the $9.5 million contract to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site that was awarded to Smartronix. (The chairman of the Recovery Board spoke to Federal News Radio 1500 AM on…
July 14, 2009 -
We’ve been reporting on the Recovery Board’s $9.5 million award last week to Smartronics for the redesign of Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s Web site that seeks to provide transparency — and therefore accountability — for…
July 13, 2009 -
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board late Friday posted a response to all the questions about its $9.5 million award for the redesign of Recovery.gov. The big question: * Isn’t $9.5 million a lot of…
July 10, 2009 -
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board late Friday posted a response to all the questions about its $9.5 million award for the redesign of Recovery.gov. The big question: * Isn’t $9.5 million a lot of…
July 10, 2009 -
Often, it is so easy to forget that the U.S. government is not alone. I often think the “ahead” or “behind” distinctions are fairly superfluous — different organizations are in different places in their evolutions…
June 24, 2009 -
It is just fascinating to watch what is happening in Iran. It is interesting with all the discussion about how the Obama campaign used so-called “new media,” but this is almost more… not real, but……
June 17, 2009 -
As most people know, President Obama spoke today about cyber-security and the White House posted the results of the 60-day top-to-bottom review of the government’s cyber-security initiatives. (I was on DC’s WTOP radio earlier today…
May 29, 2009 -
I’ll be on DC’s NewsChannel 8 in the 7:30p ET half-hour — their Federal News Tonight program — and I’ll be talking about (what else) transparency. They stream the show live… and I’ll post the…
May 26, 2009 -
Significant milestones for the Obama transparency initiative. And a lot of good stuff out there to read about it. The DorobekInsider “reader” series try to pull the best of those links together in one place.…
May 22, 2009 -
Very quickly, federal CIO Vivek Kundra has managed to get Data.gov up — it launched today. I have just started looking at it, but… here is what they say about it themselves… Welcome to Data.gov…
May 21, 2009 -
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy today posted what amounts to phase two of the Obama administration’s transparency initiative — essentially asking you for your ideas. The White House is creating a…
May 21, 2009 -
As some of you may know, I write a column for AFCEA’s Signal magazine. It appears on the back page of the magazine each month. After coming from Federal Computer Week, which put out 40…
May 18, 2009 -
We’ve been tracking how Recovery.gov ’s National Dialogue has been going — this is the innovative experiment to ask people to help solve the vexing issue of ensuring that there is transparency in the stimulus…
May 05, 2009