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New study finds US public servants less prepared to work remotely than industry counterparts

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New study finds feds less prepared to work remotely than industry counterparts

Three in five federal workers wouldn’t be ready to work remotely if their offices were unable to open, according to a recent survey of information technology executives.

The Telework Exchange said the survey’s findings showed a need for employees to be more mobile. According to the report, 84 percent of respondents believe their organization’s need for mobility has increased in the past year.

However, the survey found government workers to be less mobile than their industry counterparts:

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Posted by Mike Pearson  2 months ago

UK PM’s vision: Empowering Frontline To Deliver Better Services

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Prime Minister Articulates His Vision For Smarter Government - Empowering Frontline To Deliver Better Services

The Prime Minister has outlined plans for improving frontline services, increasing Government efficiency, and using technology to help hospitals, schools and police forces get better value for money.
During a speech titled “Putting the frontline first: Smarter Government”, Gordon Brown said identifying more efficient  ways of working will deliver savings in excess of £12 billion over the next four years, including £3 billion of new efficiency savings identified since the budget.

He said every citizen from next year will have access to information on the performance of public services including hospitals and schools. And within five years, the Government also plans to shift the majority of large transactional services online.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  2 months ago

Is the EU creating an information common market?

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Is this the first information common market?

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European Union :”ICT Is The Lifeblood Of The Knowledge Society”

Minister Åsa Torstensson also emphasises that our future growth and prosperity will lie in knowledge-intensive products and services and that  ICT is the lifeblood of the knowledge society.
Commissioner Viviane Reding underlines the importance of an internal market for the digital economy in Europe and that is what the Visby declaration is heading for, she says. Commissioner Reding furthermore highlights the importance of fibre, high speed networks all over Europe , both fixed and mobile and that is essential that  this infrastructure and services are available to all citizens in Europe. To solve legal and technical problems presented by transnational online services, Commissioner Reding proposes a solutionRead more at www.egovmonitor.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  2 months ago

UK maps to go free online

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UK government moves to put more data online for free.

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Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian’s Free Our Data campaign

The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian’s three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication of maps that exists in the US.

In the new year Brown intends to publish 2,000 sets of data, possibly including all legislation, as well as road-traffic counts over the past eight years, property prices listed with the stamp-duty yield, motoring offences with types of offence and the numbers, by county, for the top six offences.

It is thought transport providers, such as train, tube and bus companies, will lose the right to demand a hefty fee from companies such as independent travel websites and firms devising programs for mobile phones, who want to publish such information.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  2 months ago

Aussies unleash data flood

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The Australian government has had great success with a coding event for government data.

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Aussies unleash data flood

To help spark interest in the competition, the Government 2.0 Taskforce brought an army of 150 geeks together in Canberra over the weekend for a coding marathon called Govhack.

Participants formed teams to develop and demonstrate their applications and, at the end of the event, a panel decided that the best mashup was LobbyClue, which combines data from the lobbyist register, contract notices, business names and other information to produce visual representations of relationships between government organisations and businesses.

Other notable apps created on the weekend include It’s Buggered Mate (reporting damaged public facilities directly to the relevant council), Know Where You Live (providing statistics on Sydney suburbs based on their postcodes) and Rate a Loo (identifying public toilets in the user’s immediate area).

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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Asian govts mix carrot and stick approach to e-services

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Asian govts mix carrot and stick approach to e-services

Asian governments revealed their differences on how to boost the uptake of e-services in a rambunctious discussion at last week’s FutureGov Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Laurence Millar, the former Government Chief Information Officer of New Zealand, sparked the debate with a question to a panel of senior officials on the future of governance and spend management.

“Which method works best, and why?” Millar asked the panel.

He pointed out that Malaysia, India and Saudi Arabia each take a different approach to driving e-service uptake among citizens and businesses - they offer incentives, make their use mandatory or deploy a combination of the two.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Milwaukee CIO turns to cloud computing, mainframe outsourcing and thin clients amidst budget cuts

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How CIOs are responding to demands to save money.

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Milwaukee CIO turns to cloud computing, mainframe outsourcing and thin clients amidst budget cuts

Milwaukee County’s CIO, Dennis John is facing huge budget cuts for his 2010 budget which requires cutting 400 IT and related jobs. In response he is planning increased us of cloud computing, outsourcing mainframe staff, as well as replacing some 4,500 desktops with thin clients beginning next year. This plan is in reaction to a predicted $2 million budget cut being planned by the county according to an article on Network World.
Thin client usage remains small, but Gartner Inc. forecasted earlier this year that thin client terminals and diskless/repurposed PCs will comprise 10% of all professional client devices by 2014.Read more at wistechnology.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  4 months ago

Against Transparency - the perils of openness in government

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Lessig urges caution in the drive towards government transparency.

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Against Transparency

The perils of openness in government.

The naked transparency movement marries the power of network technology to the radical decline in the cost of collecting, storing, and distributing data. Its aim is to liberate that data, especially government data, so as to enable the public to process it and understand it better, or at least differently.

How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious. But I have increasingly come to worry that there is an error at the core of this unquestioned goodness. We are not thinking critically enough about where and when transparency works, and where and when it may lead to confusion, or to worse. And I fear that the inevitable success of this movement–if pursued alone, without any sensitivity to the full complexity of the idea of perfect openness–will inspire not reform, but disgust. TRead more at www.tnr.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  4 months ago

A Call to Action for State Government: Guidance for Opening the Doors to State Data

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A Call to Action for State Government: Guidance for Opening the Doors to State Data
September 2009

Transparency initiatives and websites are proliferating across government and industry globally. One aspect of the transparency trend is broader access to government data. NASCIO has published this report as initial guidance and recommendations to help state governments get started with data transparency portals. This guidance presents the value proposition along with principles and guidance on how states should move forward.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  4 months ago

Think about Government 2.0 in your context

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All The World Is The Same When It Comes To Government 2.0… Or Not?

A warning sign is that the same things are happening over and over again in different countries. Govcamps and barcamps, open data contests, application contests, engagement of high-profile opinion leaders (be they Tim Berners-Lee or Tim O’Reilly). Nurtured by blog posts and tweets, the traditional interest for “best practices” has spread like wildfire. So what I am seeing is e-givernment (1.0) all over again.

The next step will be for consulting and advisory firms to develop maturity models to start measure and benchmark government 2.0

Like for e-government 1.0, any initiative on government 2.0 or open government (or whatever name one wants to use for technology-intensive government transformation), must be rooted into the peculiarities of a country or a state.

Let’s not get trapped with copycatting brilliant ideas. Since they may not be so brilliant once redeployed in a different context.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  4 months ago
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