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January 31, 2007
Budget proposal to detail benefits of IT consolidation
GovExec has an interesting tidbit:
The Bush administration’s fiscal 2008 budget proposal will detail the financial benefits of an effort to consolidate back-office information technology systems across government, an Office of Management and Budget official said Tuesday.
Presumably this will…
September 27, 2011
Introducing the E‑mail Charter
TCG’s mission is to save time and if you’re like me, trying to keep up with the onslaught of e‑mail certainly does not help save time. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post highlighted this growing problem and introduced the e‑mail…
January 23, 2006
Top 20 Excellence.Gov Award Winners announced
After much debate, the 20 Excellence.Gov Award winners were announced last week. The awards are run by the Industry Advisory Council’s Collaboration and Transformation SIG (formerly called the e‑Gov SIG). The 20 winners are listed below, and the top 5 will…
October 31, 2019
Baby Sharks, Home-Run Dance Parties, and Gov’t Contracting? Lessons on Culture from a World Series Champion
by Peter Fedders, Employee Happiness Associate
All Major League Baseball clubs use analytics these days, and none more than the Houston Astros. The Astros fired most of their scouts and replaced them with data- and video-based analysts. And it worked…
March 18, 2009
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
ACT-IAC has just announced the finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, the theme of which is “Transparency: Using IT to improve the interaction between Government and its Stakeholders.” A list of the finalists is below, in alphabetical order. The top 5 finalists…
November 10, 2006
E‑gov initiatives to create momentum under new House leadership?
Following up from my post yesterday about the impact of changes in House and Senate committee leaderships, I see that GovExec has some additional comments from various government IT types, including this:
… interagency transfers of funds to work on the…
December 27, 2011
Identifying Grants Fraud an Updated Old-fashioned Way
Recovery.gov has been touting its ability to identify waste and fraud in Recovery Act grants, and other grantmaking efforts are taking note. But the most successful methods are also the old-fashioned ones (albeit updated with technology).
The outgoing head of…
June 18, 2007
Google launches a public policy blog
Google’s launched its own blog about public policy, “to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way,” claims Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs. It’s certainly a good idea, even though postings over the last two months (it…
September 10, 2007
FDP: GMOB Profiles
All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……
October 10, 2012
You Are What You Measure: Accountability
When states were forced to make their spending public, the process helped the states learn what they were doing well.