There was a joke that circulated years ago that if you wanted to get additional budget for IT you just said it was for ‘The Internet’. No one was quite clear as to what they would do, but they knew they wanted to be on, or in, or connected to it. In the Pentagon that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'government 2.0'
Cloud Computing Panel at the Cloud Computing Summit
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · cloud computing, government 2.0, presentations
Tags: acquistion·cloud computing·fcw·gcn·government·government 2.0·human capital·pentagon·service level agreement·service oriented architecture·sla·soa
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Upstate CIO Conference
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · cloud computing, government 2.0, presentations
This coming Friday, April 16, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University is hosting a conference to bring together CIO’s and Academic leaders to discuss some of the current issues facing IT. The conference welcome describes the nature of the conference pretty clearly: “Welcome to the first Upstate CIO Conference, where CIOs from Upstate New [...]
Tags: cio·ischool·IT Governance·School of Information Studies·syracuse university
Practical Experiences in Using Cloud Computing
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · cloud computing, government 2.0
There is an exchange in Through the Looking Glass between Humpty Dumpty and Alice: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different [...]
Tags: Air Force·alice in wonderland·cloud computing·dgi·humpty dumpty·IDC Government Insights·powertek corporation·RightNow Technologies·social security administration·through the looking glass
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 [...]
Tags: dashboards·department of transportation·open government·performance measurement·potomac forum·social media·transparency·willard hotel
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 [...]
Tags: 2.0·Casey Kasem·Countdown·DISA·francis rose·government 2.0·GSA·open-source·wfed
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. [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: cyber·government 2.0·government computer news·second life·security·sensors·virtualization·wyatt kash
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. Secure SCADA – Dec 2009 a 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 [...]
Tags: cyber·government 2.0·scada·security
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 [...]
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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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