Emerging Tech

Will Western Tech Firms Stand for Freedom? Experts Are Split

Half thinks companies will help dissidents.

Digital Government

Agencies should publish lists of all their data, group says

Sunlight Foundation is developing a best practices guide for government transparency.

Emerging Tech

State Sticks with ‘Sea of Japan’ in Response to Online Petitions

More than 100,000 Signed the We the People Petition.

Emerging Tech

Don Draper Meets Big Data

Text analysis can pick out anachronisms in Mad Men and other period shows.

Emerging Tech

Experts split on the homes of the future

Half expect Internet-enabled homes by 2020, report finds.

Emerging Tech

What could Watson do with the budget?

IBM’s Jeopardy-winning technology could be the next thing in government public affairs

Emerging Tech

Technology Made Health Care Reform Personal

Administration used online tools to tailor its message to individual citizens.

Digital Government

National lab, IBM team up on supercomputer initiative

Aim is to crunch huge amounts of data to improve private sector competitiveness.

Emerging Tech

Defense Builds Its Own Reddit

New service will allow soldiers to post ideas and vote them up or down.

Digital Government

IT officials spending less on one-time capital investments

Shift toward operational expenditures makes budgets more predictable, increases local control.

Emerging Tech

The Google-Apple Map Wars: An Open Gov Data Case Study

Both tech giants want to make government data pay.

Emerging Tech

League of Women Voters Lashes out at We the People Petition Response

Earlier administration responses have drawn less formidable foes.

Emerging Tech

Government Data Creates All Kinds of Awesomeness

Federal CTO pitches private sector apps built with government data

Digital Government

No one knows how much energy older federal data centers use

Ineffective measurement is an obstacle to determining data center power consolidation savings.

Emerging Tech

We the Which People?

The White House petition site is being leveraged by a foreign audience.