DHS could stifle public discussion if it's not careful in monitoring social media, lawmakers warn.
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Data on spending is available through existing programs, but gaps make it difficult to get the kind of details that many people would like.
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Administration pledges progress in IT despite budget cuts.
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Obama's 2013 budget proposal aims to cut federal IT but increase its use when it makes government more efficient.
- 9 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 9:23pm -

Military agencies are making a foray onto the popular new Pinterest social media service, but good luck finding their official home pages in the mix.
- 13 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 9:04pm -

Writing for The Atlantic, Alexander Furnas, a master's candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, critiques the platform for collaborative legislative markup built at Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) behest and launched w…
- 9 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:44pm -

What do you get when you put hundreds of left-leaning, meme-obsessed activists in the same place at the same time?There are two correct answers. One is Rootscamp, a weekend gathering of the progressive organizer tribe in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of…
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The European Commission plans to refer the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice "to assess whether ACTA is incompatible - in any way - with the EU's fundamental rights and freedoms, such as freedom of expression…
- 11 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:25pm -

On Pinterest, the hot new social network, all politics is visual.The social media darling of the month has been taking off particularly among users with an interest in food or fashion. But with an audience that's reportedly 68 percent female, it's a…
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Brazil, China, and some European countries have erected barriers to free flow of data, due to fears of U.S. domination of cloud market, says BSA.
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After announcing impending reforms in 2010, the military is beginning to shake up how it manages IT.
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The train's already left the station for organizations that have been prepping for an October 2013 ICD-10 deadline, say health IT organizations and CIOs.
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Researchers will use National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to develop new products and services to combat cybersecurity threats faced by U.S. government agencies and companies.
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Earlier this month, the agency launched a beta site featuring its already standing products, but with an enhanced visualization aspect to make it easier for everyone to interact with data from hardcore researchers and analysts to everyday citizens.
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NIST will establish a National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence, a public-private collaboration for accelerating integration of computer security solutions.
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The National Archives launched a new website on Tuesday in preparation for the first online census release in the nation’s history.
- 16 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 3:41pm -

The National Institute of Standards and Technology published for public comment a guide on managing responses to computer security incidents such as hacking attacks.
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The Department of Energy is seeking a senior cyber security technical advisor. The position pays between $84,697 and $165,300 per year and is based in Germantown, Md. The job opening will remain until February 27.
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February  COMMUNITYVOICESWoody CrenshawPresident of SustainFloyd will speak on "Leading and Lighting Social Change: Ag, Arts and Advocacy" Tuesday, February 28, 7:00pm The Lyric Theatre - free admissionOn Tuesday, February 28th at 7:00pm at t…
- 13 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 6:35pm -

By Ebony Scurry, PHR, GCDF-ISocial Media for HR Professional DevelopmentShould HR professionals be using social media tools? Being connected with social media tools can make it easy for an HR professional to stay up to date on the latest trends and…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:30pm -

By Alex Moll, Communications Officer, eRulemaking Program Management OfficeNext week, the eRulemaking Program Management Office (PMO) will release the first installment in a series of website developments scheduled over the course of 2012 as part of…
- 17 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 5:00pm -

By now, most government communicators have probably seen the Edelman Trust Barometer summaries that keep highlighting that trust in government fell once again. This sounds really terrible for those of us who communicate for the government, but looki…
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My little town of Hoboken, NJ--birthplace of Frank Sinatra--already has a reality TV star--Buddy of "Cake Boss" fame.  And we might have had two more--JWoww and Snooki of "Jersey Shore"--had our mayor Dawn Zimmer not put the kibosh on it. Hoboken, a…
- 20 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 8:00pm -

We've heard a lot about Drupal and WordPress in government, but not much about the open source platform Joomla. We asked Joomla External Communications Lead Sandra Ordonez to share how government is using it, its key features, how it compares to Drup…
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In January 2011, Michael McDonald and Micah Altman founded the Public Mapping Project and began building the open source platform DistrictBuilder to give citizens more of a say in the redistricting process
- 8 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 2:30pm -

After watching the documentary Hacking Democracy, I started researching how government uses voting technology to conduct elections. That's how I learned about the work of Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
- 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 7:52pm -

Oakland, Ca. is the latest major U.S. city to launch a 311 application that allows citizens to report issues directly to government from their smartphones
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Mark Headd has an interesting thought on how to encourage better participation at civic hackathons, suggesting perhaps a registration fee would encourage more reliable participation
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Join us for a conversation with Jeanne Holm, evangelist for Data.gov and Chair of the e-Government Interest Group for the W3C.
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Join us as we chat with Pia Waugh, organizer of September's GovCamp Australia, held in Canberra.
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Tariq Khokhar joined the World Bank in June 2011 as its first Open Data Evangelist. Gov 2.0 Radio's Adriel Hampton and Allison Hornery talk with Tariq about cheerleading the global development organization's collaborations with technologists and data…
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Steve Lunceford, Adriel Hampton and Allison Hornery talk with Bryan Sivak, new chief innovation officer for the State of Maryland, about innovating in government, and trying to keep a web-savvy citizenry up to speed during the recent DC-area earthqu…
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Andrew LaMora from TopCoder joins Gov 2.0 Radio's Allison Hornery and Adriel Hampton to discuss coding challenges in partnership with NASA.
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Two key pillars of the Stage 2 announcement are requirements to use the Direct for data exchange and HL7's consolidated CDA for the format.
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The explosion of big data, open data and social data offers new opportunities to address humanity's biggest challenges. The open question is no longer if data can be used for the public good, but how.
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HIMSS has promoted good causes, but only recently has it addressed cost, interoperability, and open source issues that can allow health IT to break out of the elite of institutions large or sophisticated enough to adopt the right practices.
- 1 day ago, 22 Feb 12, 1:04am -

The National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, discusses patient empowerment, data access and ownership, and other important trends in healthcare.
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 2:00pm -

A New York Times visualization offers a compelling alternative to wading through pages of President Obama's 2013 budget.
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The most important change in the next two decades of computing might be the lack of change in computer processing speeds, Bob Colwell, a deputy director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, predicted Tuesday. For about the past 40 years,…
- 21 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:20am -

Somewhere buried within the wealth of personal information on Facebook and Twitter is a basic, scientific need to communicate, and FEMA wants to work with that. At an event concerning the role social media plays in government crisis management co-hos…
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 5:46pm -

Who knew the federal budget was so popular? A mobile website of President Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request received about 53,000 visitors during its first 24 hours online, a spokesman for the Government Printing Office told Nextgov Tuesday. To put…
- 8 days ago, 14 Feb 12, 10:13pm -

Among the places the Obama Administration publicized its recent step back on a controversial rule requiring Catholic charities and other groups to supply birth control to female employees was the White House's online petition site We the People. A fe…
- 8 days ago, 14 Feb 12, 9:18pm -

U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is trying to remain an important voice in that chaotic and violence-wracked country despite the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Damascus last week. In posts on the embassy's Facebook page Thursday and Friday, Fo…
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