In December 2009, I was asked by the Inter-American Development Bank to participate in a project to look at eGovernment for the Brazilian Government. During the time I worked on that effort, I got to know a number of the IADB staff. One of them who was born in Spain, married an American wife, and [...]
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Apropos of nothing in particular and to take a brief break from grading research papers from my University of Maryland class I teach, I was again reminded of one of the problems I have with signature lines from emails (have I mentioned this before?). Many people have a permanent signature that has some generic sign-off [...]
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I rarely talk directly about political issues here, but I was struck by the NBC evening news tonight; normally I don’t see it but my wife often has NBC local or national news on in the evenings. Early in the broadcast was a story about how much money was being spent on the campaigns this [...]
This morning my wife mentioned that she was going out to Target. “Did I want anything”, she asked. “What do they sell at Target?”, I wondered aloud. “Well,” she said, “would you like detergent?” “What?”, I responded in confusion, “Detergent?” “Yes”, she said, “Would you like some laundry detergent for your clothes?” “You know,” I [...]
I have always taken pride, deserved or not, about being pretty progressive if that is the right word about gender issues. For example, one of the proud moments in my younger political career happened when I was active in College Republican politics in the state of Maryland. One of the young women active in the [...]
I was lucky enough to be part of a panel discussing cyber-security at a Fedscoop conference Wednesday, October 14, at the Newseum. The agenda for the conference is here: http://fedscoopevents.com/agenda.php. I thought it might be useful to summarize my general points for those who were not able to attend. The theme of the conference was [...]
Tags: cyber-security·federal cio council·fedscoop·goldy kamali·newseum·rob carey·security metrics task force·vivek kundra
Note: what follows was a document I prepared for my Syracuse University class, I would be interested in any feedback on its contents either in the comments section or sending me an email at dmintz@ourownlittlecorner.com. Thaanks. One of the first discussion topics for our class dealt with an excerpt from one of our textbooks [...]
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