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Social Media and Open Government – My Presentation

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · cyber-security, government 2.0, presentations

I was honored to be invited to speak at the Potomac Forum’s conference held February 3-4 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, “Planning and Implementing Social Media and Open Government Strategy and Efforts: What Executives and Managers Need to Know”, http://www.potomacforum.org/.
I discussed two topics under the topic of Bringing Governance, Performance Management, and IT [...]

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DISA and Open-Source

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · government 2.0

In an earlier post, I talked about the radio show Countdown hosted by Francis Rose on WFED at 2pm Friday’s. The deal was that Francis would have three people select their top Government-related stories of the week and present them in sort of a Casey Kasem 3-2-1 countdown.
I was on January 15th, you can listen [...]

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Transparency

January 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · government 2.0

On January 15th, I was part of a panel for the Countdown show hosted by Francis Rose on WFED, 1500 AM, here in Washington DC.
The premise of the panel is that every Friday, Francis asks three people from the ‘community’ to each select three news stories having something to do with the Federal Government. I [...]

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Technologies to Watch in 2010

December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · government 2.0, government business, sensors

Recently Wyatt Kash, the Editor in Chief for both Government Computer News and Defense Systems, wrote me a note saying that GCN was working on an article about technologies to watch in 2010 and that he wanted my two cents.
Naturally I had more than two cents worth of thoughts about the issue and most likely [...]

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Final Version of SCADA Presentation

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · cyber-security, government 2.0, government business, scada, sensors

This is the final version of the SCADA presentation I made yesterday at the Security SCADA Summit, http://www.iqpc.com/Event.aspx?id=223390.
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The presentation consists of two parts.
Part I was prepared by me and talks about the economic basis associated with the impact of the Internet, wanders through a number of topics I like to [...]

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SCADA Conference Presentation

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments · cyber-security, government 2.0, government business, presentations, scada, sensors

I am one of two representatives from CSC speaking at a SCADA Conference on Tuesday.
My focus, as usual, will be on the strategic reasons behind the movement to SCADA. Oops, perhaps I should back up. SCADA is an abbreviation for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. It usually is used as a catch-all term dealing with computer [...]

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An American In Brasilia

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · government 2.0, government business, hockey, international

So the first part of my time in Brasilia is finished, the two day conference on eGovernment. I did my presentation earlier today, here is the updated version modified with suggestions from my last blog entry and tweet:
International Experiences with Integrated Services – United States

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Our Man In Brazil

November 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · government 2.0, international

I have been recently asked to provide some insights for the Brazilian government based on my experiences as the CIO for the US Department of Transportation. The initial discussions will occur later this week and include my participation on a panel December 2, www.informacaoecidadania.gov.br, with a represenative from Korea and one from the European Union providing [...]

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Social Networking & Cybersecurity

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · cyber-security, government 2.0, government business

Earlier today, October 28, I was priviledged to give a talk at the National Defense Industrial Association about Social Network & Cybersecurity.
My focus was to review why Social Network has taken off in the last few years and what implications for the future based on those conclusions. I also briefly reviewed Cloud Computing using some [...]

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ELC Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Track

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · government 2.0, government business

For those who came in late, ACT-IAC, http://www.actgov.org/Pages/default.aspx, one of the larger organizations enabling Government and Industry IT to be able to informally interact and learn from each other, holds an Executive Leadership Conference, ELC, each year.
This year ELC is being held October 25-27 in Williamsburg, VA, http://www.actgov.org/events/ExecutiveLeadership/ELC%202009/Pages/default.aspx.
On Monday, October 26, most of the day [...]

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