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White House U.S. Digital Service Aims to 'Identify and Fix Problems'
Hampered agencies struggling to deliver tech projects may have a new help hotline. On Monday, the White House formalized the creation of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), a tech consulting team under...
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Passive Crowdsourcing: 5 Ways We Do Work for Others Without Realizing It
You may not know it, but you do work every day for different companies -- and even your city government. This is called passive crowdsourcing, or the distribution of work or tasks to individuals who...
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Will You Soon be Training your Robot Replacement?
Information is the most valuable thing there is. It’s why companies hire consultants just to share what they know, it’s how stock brokers and financial advisers are able to make a living without...
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Retaining the IT Workforce
Attracting talented technology professionals to public service continues to be a challenge for government employers. Young technologists crave money and upward mobility, which the public sector...
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Philadelphia Launches Cloud-Based 311 Service
The potholes of Philadelphia are warned: The City of Brotherly Love is ready to find you, and fill you. Philadelphia announced Thursday that it has signed a new deal with the IT services company...
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Video Game Maker Maps City Data in 3-D Display
How would our data affect us if we could see it on the street? Video game maker Ubisoft asks this unspoken question through a set of recently released data maps of London, Paris and Berlin. The visual...
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Can Open Data Find a Business Model?
It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t heard of open data by now, and yet the state and local governments working to expose their data are vastly outnumbered by those that are waiting for a solid...
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Maker Movement Rescues San Francisco Tech Entrepreneur
Our Nation is home to a long line of innovators who have fueled our economy and transformed our world. Through the generations, American inventors have lit our homes, propelled humanity into the...
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Talent Management Systems Help Governments Manage Their Workforce
When Henderson, Nev., advertises a job, often hundreds of people apply. And in the days when those applications came on paper, the city had no way to evaluate them all. “We’d have to limit it to the...
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Should Governments Bother Archiving Social Media?
Just like physical documents and emails, government social media conversations and interactions are considered public data. But while many agencies have invested in automated tools to help them mine...
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FINDER Senses Heartbeats Amid Rubble
In the next large-scale disaster, a new people-finding device could save lives. Now under development by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., the Finding Individuals for...
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Dissecting Microsoft's Redefined Core
In Mid-July, incoming Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released an internal memo presenting his new vision for the company, which was a call to action for employees to accelerate Microsoft's innovation and...
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Uber Hires Former Obama Strategist to Lead Political Affairs
The battle over how ride-sharing providers are regulated got more political on August 19, as Uber announced the hiring of David Plouffe – Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign manager – to...
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MonkeyParking App to Debut in Southern California
After a setback in San Francisco, MonkeyParking, the mobile app that lets drivers auction off filled parking spaces, has announced plans for a relaunch next week in Southern California. MonkeyParking...
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Los Angeles Undertakes Massive Website Relaunch with Drupal
On Thursday, Aug. 21, the city of Los Angeles announced plans to replace its city-run websites with a set of open sourced alternatives. Ted Ross, the city’s assistant general manager for technology...
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DHS Cybersecurity Program Finds Few Takers
Last year, President Obama directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to open a program for sharing classified and unclassified cybersecurity information to 16 “critical infrastructure”...
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Shared Services Agreements Aim to Keep IT Operations Afloat in the Next Big...
Nags Head, N.C., barely skims the ocean surface, a town of about 3,000 people built on sand just 10 feet above sea level. Over the decades, hurricanes have cut a rough path here, taking down homes,...
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Report: Federal CTO Todd Park to Step Down
Federal CTO Todd Park will leave his position by the end of this year, Fortune reported today. Citing “sources familiar with the situation,” the publication says Park will return to the West Coast,...
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Napa Earthquake Highlights California's Need for Early Warning System
Just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, thousands of sleeping Californians wearing their Jawbone fitness monitors suddenly woke up. That morning, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Napa Valley, causing electric and...
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California Enacts Mobile Device Kill-Switch Requirement
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation today, Aug. 25, that requires all smartphones sold in the state to be equipped with kill-switch functionality. The law, led by San Francisco District...
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