Emerging Tech
Innovative Funding Begets Innovative Development
A USAID-funded project to chlorinate drinking water near its source will affect 5 million people by 2015.
Emerging Tech
Online Accessibility Is More Complicated Than It Seems
Small quirks can make websites impossible for disabled people to access.
Emerging Tech
Saving Government Tweets Is Tougher Than You Think
The National Archives wants working groups to make sure agencies are retaining social media records.
Emerging Tech
Q&A: Twitter Chief Talks to Washington
Social network's CEO Dick Costolo takes questions at a Brookings Institution event.
Emerging Tech
Snowden Petition Shows Many Paths to a White House Response
A post-indictment boost gave a petition to pardon the NSA leaker enough signatures for an official administration reply.
Emerging Tech
Labor Does More With Less on Streaming Data
The agency has a single Application Programming Interface that connects to 175 data sets.
Emerging Tech
Meet 43 Smart People Who Plan to Make Government Work Better
The second round of Presidential Innovation Fellows will focus on improving disaster response and federal financial systems.
Digital Government
The Government’s Data Center Count Has Doubled Since 2011
There are now about 6,000 in OMB’s official tally.
Emerging Tech
Straight Outta Government: GSA Mulls Deal With Rap Genius
The next government-approved social media platform may be a tool to decode hip hop lyrics.
Emerging Tech
U.S. History Now on Facebook
Agencies have been filling in their timelines, perhaps a little too quickly, judging by one blunder.
Emerging Tech
FDA Plans to Mine Shipping Data to Expose Illegal Cigarette Sales
Agency wants a vendor to spot anomalies in tobacco shipments.
Emerging Tech
Vines Across the Oceans
U.S. embassies abroad are beginning to adopt Twitter’s viral video site.
Digital Government
Survey Predicts Major Savings from Big Data
Agencies could see a 14 percent budget savings through new data analysis tools, officials predict.
Emerging Tech
A More Searchable History
New wesite includes 120,000 papers from the founding fathers.
Modernization
CIA Gave Amazon a Leg Up on Cloud Deal
Intelligence agency unfairly allowed the company to weaken security requirements, auditor finds.
Digital Government
House Backs IT Buying Overhaul
Reforms added to a major defense policy bill would give agency CIOs authority over all IT spending.
Digital Government
We Should Be Getting More From IT Project Reviews, Report Says
GAO calls for TechStat reviews on all risky IT projects.
Emerging Tech
NSA Might Not be Reading Your Tweets, But Sen. Mikulski Is
The Senate appropriations chair shot back after a reporter accused her of trying to limit talk about NSA data mining.
Emerging Tech
China Thwarts Its Citizens’ Access to White House Petition
The appeal asked the U.S. to deport a well-connected Chinese woman accused of trying to poison her college roommate in the 1990s.
Emerging Tech
Think That Government Prize Contest Was Fixed? Take It To Court.
GAO lacks jurisdiction over the competitions, agency says.
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