The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI). The list of speakers includes some of the greats from the federal IT scene, including:
Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO
Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO
Tim O’Reilly, Visionary of the Web2.0 movement
David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
David Wennergren,...
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I previously mentioned the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, which was held 17-21 May 2009. I took lots of notes from the conference: enough, in fact, to fuel this blog for a long long time. My associate Ryan Kamauff took even more (and more relevant) notes on the sessions there, and both of us kicked the...
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Foreign spies are in our country for many bad reasons. Spies target defense secrets and seek to penetrate the decision-making process of our government leaders. They also gain unauthorized access to information held by our nation’s corporations. In this time of serious economic crisis this aspect of the threat from foreign spies...
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Today’s sessions were an interesting mix of professionals from throughout the community. Some of the most interesting dialog was on organizational models of senior staffs.
For many years military strategists have pondered the best model for ops intel integration on senior staffs. The introduction to the argument generally mentions that the dominate structure today is...
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Federal IT leaders have it tough. In general, they face hard challenges, are constantly getting their budgets cut, they must comply with tough security guidelines, and must support a workforce who think everything should work like it does in rich corporate environments or in computer security lax homes. And they must support and...
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