Blog entries

New Transparency: Recovery.Gov - from BizGov blog

John Kamensky — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:38:07 +0100

Posted on BizGov Blog 9/30/09 -
There were lots of complaints that the initial Recovery.Gov website was not very helpful. That’s changed. The newly-refreshed website now has lots of new ways of finding and looking at information that is due to pour in next month when the first quarterly reports are due from about 90,00Read More...

Gov2.0 Expo – Innovation on Display

Camille Auspitz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:09:36 +0100

A jam-packed program of more than two-dozen, 5-minute presentations in five categories made for a potentially mind numbing day. Yet the Gov2.0 Expo Showcase, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC yesterday, was full of poignant, powerful and pithy examples of successful web 2.0 initiatives happening throughout federal, state and local governments.

The well-attended evenRead More...

Blogs as Public Policy Forums - from BizGov Blog

John Kamensky — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:22:57 +0100

Posted on BizGov Blog 9/2/2009 - A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials. Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found that these agency blogs “elicit more controversy than expected” and that they “have more postsRead More...

Google Chrome OS - start "baking it in"?

Brad King — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:55:41 +0100

Google's recent announcement of open source development of their Chrome Operating System appears to be a good old fashioned "throw down" challenge to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop OS - and its position as the fundamental point of departure for enterprise systems architecture.

Microsoft "overshooting" presents a real opportunity for Google

While we can be sure that Microsoft certainly has the resources to defend its position, we could argue that they have a bit of a "barrierRead More...

"PPP" (aka "P3") means "Public Private Partnership"!

Brad King — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:56:19 +0100

My colleagues have given me some flak over the fact that many of the visitors to this site will have no idea what "PPP" is in the set of topic selections that you see at the head of this portal. It's true, not too many people in the US Federal government circles are talking about Public Private Partnership these days. I think we should be talking more about this. In fact, I don't think many of the most important issues of our day can be addressed in the absence of rigorous aRead More...

Can social media influence how the US government operates?

Camille Auspitz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:04:12 +0100

If social media is having such a strong impact in diplomatic circles, specifically, China and Iran as discussed in today’s NextGov article: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090708_6453.php, what is the potential impact for influencing how the US government operates, communicates and sets policy?

Social media has the power to inspire action...think flash mobs experiments by Bill Wasik in New York City (http://www.whyy.org/podcast/070709_110630.mp3), the recent Obama campaign thRead More...

Welcome to Government Futures!

Camille Auspitz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Welcome to Government Futures! An online community–moving ideas between government and the private sector.

Join the conversation.
To get ideas moving, several bloggers have posted new content and will continue to do so. We have also brought over all the thought provoking ideas from the original Government Futures site.

I hope you will join our community–together we will create a diverse and energized online community that is passionate about innovation aRead More...

Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research – Where will this lead us?

Kathleen Heuer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research – Where this will lead us in terms of better patient outcomes and more effective financial investments

- Kathleen Heuer, Executive Consultant, McConnell International

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (the Council) has been established to foster optimum coRead More...

Update on the Government’s IT Supply Chain Initiative – part 2 of 2

Lynn McNulty — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:20:35 +0100

By: Lynn McNulty, Executive Consultant, McConnell International

Introduction. In a previous paper I discussed the background and initial manifestations of the Government’s Information Technology (IT) supply chain program. This posting provides additional information about Supply Chain Pilot Projects, Incorporation of Supply Chain Considerations into Special Publication 800-53, and Counterfeit IT Parts

Supply Chain Pilot Projects. Recent briefings given by personnel from thRead More...

Update on the Government’s IT Supply Chain Initiative – part 1 of 2

Lynn McNulty — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:58 +0100

By: Lynn McNulty, Executive Consultant, McConnell International

Introduction. In a previous paper I discussed the background and initial manifestations of the Government’s Information Technology (IT) supply chain program. This posting provides additional information about the supply chain program and reemphasizes the need for hardware and software vendors to follow the evolution of this initiative which is bound to be reflected in future acquisition requirements published Read More...