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Federal government pulling back from the Web

Government information is disappearing from the public Web. That, says Aliya Sternstein in this week's Federal Computer Week, is one thing government officials and public critics can agree on. As to whether this is a good, necessary thing or a bad, unnecessary thing, there is no end of...

Tags: OMB Watch

Blog posts 2006-03-02

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How to make Government 2.0 a reality

Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...

Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Self-Contradictory Government IT Failure Report

The Office of Management and Budget OMB reports that the number of federal government high-risk IT projects has declined since the start of this year. This information is presented in two reports: the quarterly project High Risk List and the Management Watch List. These materials can be found here.The current...

Tags: Information Technology, Government, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people

This may come as surprise to no one but the Census Bureau inadvertently posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, census officials reports the Washington Post. Although the Social Security numbers were removed from the site, there are still...

Tags: Security, Privacy, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-23

GAO: Problems with OMB oversight of IT

David Powner, director of IT management issues at the Government Accountability Office, is critical of the way the Office of Management and Budget collects information about IT projects, Government Computer News reports. “The watch lists are very valuable because they identify projects that are poorly performing,” Powner said. But...

Tags: agency, information technology, David Powner, OMB

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Senators call for open government database

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing for an online, public database of all federal contracts and grants. So is Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum, both senators see the Internet as a way to further philosophical goals around federal spending and open government, the...

Tags: Tom Coburn, government

Blog posts 2006-07-03

On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices

According to ComputerWorld, the White House Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Government Accountability Office GAO are jointly looking into the data security practices of the Veterans Administration as well as several other agencies. Recently, a computer containing the personal data of over 26.5 million people was...

Tags: OMB, FISMA, password

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Ban BitTorrent if they don't comply

Ban BitTorrent if they don't complywell no and no siryou see you cant impose your law in other country aka sweden. (homeland of the best place to find sci-fi show that you miss last night ) so neither you redo all the law of all country out there or just...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, INTERNET, Spyware, Viruses and worms, BitTorrent, Ban BitTorrent, British Telecommunications, BitTorent, piracy

Discussion threads 2005-11-23