Ideas

Helping Consumers from the Cloud

Ideas

NOAA to Move Email to the Cloud

Modernization

Agencies cite progress six months after IT reform mandate

Reports tout data center closures and boast savings through moves to the cloud.

Digital Government

Advisory group recommends electronic rule-making records

Agencies should use comment analysis software to make reviewing public feedback less onerous, panel says.

Digital Government

Proposed bill would equate GPS tracking, wiretapping

The bipartisan measure would impose criminal penalties for surreptitiously following someone's location.

Digital Government

Report recommends new IT acquisition manager positions

Jobs would help establish a bridge between government and industry.

Ideas

Media Goes to the Dogs

Ideas

Primary Sourcing Meets Crowd Sourcing

Digital Government

Washington power outage tests telework plans

Damage to underground electrical cables forces employees at three agencies to work from home or take administrative leave.

Digital Government

Government performance website may not meet congressional requirements

After losing more than three-quarters of its e-gov budget, OMB says it may not be able to complete the congressionally mandated project by October 2012.

Digital Government

OMB to cut two transparency programs, suspend others

Move comes after the e-gov transparency fund was slashed 75 percent in April negotiations to avert a government shutdown.

Digital Government

Open information may mean more errors get published

Agencies feel pressure to rush out lightly vetted data on such websites as the Obama administration's Data.gov, specialists say.