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'Delivering on Digital'
I finished Bill Eggers latest book, "Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government," and highly recommend to public sector technology practitioners, especially governments who don’t have the resources to contract with a high-end consulting firm to build out a holistic strategy on their own.
GAO to lean more on analytics for government accountability
U.S. Government Accountability Office announced it will create a Center for Advanced Analytics to bring a more data-driven approach into its work.
DISA kicks off overhaul of federal background checks
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a series of videos and request for information for the National Background Investigation System, created in the wake of security incidents that lead to data breaches of millions of federal government employees and contractors.
The seeds of a federal government software-as-as-service digital platform?
With the release of a new identity management platform, 18F is slowly culling together all the requisite pieces for an easy-to-deploy, cloud-based federal government web management platform.
Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 3)
An odd thing happened in Dehradun, the capital city of the northern state of Uttarakhand, when the city received news that it would receive funding as one of 100 cities chosen to participate India’s $15 billion Smart Cities Mission. Rather than celebrating making the coveted list, the city instead found itself embroiled in a dispute that saw local activists take to the woods to hug trees in protest against Dehradun’s smart city proposal.
Transforming government without ego
Many of us are attracted to practices that move us towards that place of intense joy that comes from being present. In my field, technology, both Free and Open Source development and agile practices have offered me, and many others, a path towards a similar joy.