Transform, Protect and Advance – DOE’s IT Modernization Strategy
Date: September 04, 2012Type: Article
Transform, Protect and Advance – DOE’s IT Modernization Strategy
Date: September 04, 2012Type: Blog
The Obama Administration’s Digital Government Strategy provides a vision for a 21st century government that lays a strong foundation for modernizing technology services across the Federal Government. At Energy, we’re implementing a three-pillar approach -- Transform, Protect and Advance – as part...
The Evolving CIO: From Financial Compliance Origins to Data Singularity
Date: March 28, 2011Type: Article
The Evolving CIO: From Financial Compliance Origins to Data Singularity
Date: March 28, 2011Type: Blog
Thank you to those who took a moment to comment on my recent blog introducing my new series on the evolving CIO. Several of you agreed that we need to redefine the purpose of the CIO based on the trajectory of our society. In this spirit, an article comes to mind that I was reading in Time...
ExpertNet: The Federal Government Wants Your Answers
Date: January 18, 2011Type: News
Comment Period Extended to January 23, 2011
How do you craft public policy questions that get genuinely useful responses from citizens? What’s the best way to reach members of the public with the greatest expertise on a given topic? These are just some of the questions that the...
Harnessing Innovation To Amplify Mission Success
Date: November 18, 2010Type: Article
Register Now for NDU iCollege’s Free Social Media Conference
Date: October 27, 2010Type: News
On November 9, leading experts will discuss the challenges of using social media to communicate within their organizations, with the public, and across organizations at NDU’s conference, “Social Media Implementation Across Organizational...
Making the Web Work for DOT: IdeaHub
Date: October 08, 2010Type: News
With 55,000 employees spread out across the country, the Department of Transportation (DOT) can’t easily bring the whole agency together for a brainstorming session. But what they can’t do in person, they are now doing though IdeaHub, an online community where employees can post ideas for their...
Life in IT Flatland
Date: July 31, 2010Type: Blog
Those of us in IT Flatland have two-dimensional thinking where we don't look "up" to customer needs or "down" to end-to-end well-integrated solutions. We need to open our IT "third eye" to get ourselves out of IT Flatland.
Social Media Presence at NRC
Date: July 02, 2010Type: Blog
I was recently asked about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) use of social media tools. The two questions I got had to do with why NRC doesn't yet have an "official" presence.
Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old
Date: May 21, 2010Type: Article
Opening Video for the 2010 Interagency Resource Managers (IRMCO) Conference
Date: April 11, 2010Type: Video
This opening video outlines the challenges facing federal executives in managing Federal resources.
Two New Groups Dedicated to Open Government
Date: February 05, 2010Type: Blog
In accordance with the Open Government Directive, two working groups have been established to help develop specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum of January 21, 2009.
They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov
Date: January 21, 2010Type: Blog
Taking a page from our efforts here in the Obama Administration, the United Kingdom today launched data.gov.uk - a site to aggregate datasets from the UK government. It is exciting to see the seeds of openness, accountability, and transparency taking root around the world.
Changing the Way Washington Works
Date: December 16, 2009Type: Article
Changing the Way Washington Works
Date: December 16, 2009Type: Blog
In order to democratize data and advance the President’s agenda of an open, transparent and participatory government, the Data.gov platform was launched on May 21, 2009, with 47 datasets. Today, we have over 118,000 datasets and have received more than 47 million hits. Since the launch, many...