Tag: Digital

June 5, 2018

The Office of Personnel Management is seeking a digital record system that would make it easier for federal employees to move across agencies and in and out of government. OPM, in a request for information posted on FedBizOpps, is seeking […]

July 12, 2017

Companies are facing a digital imperative to revamp business operations to better serve customers. To accommodate these shifts, CIOs are making sweeping organizational changes, adding new key roles, setting up innovation labs and tapping modern technologies to meet strategic mandates […]

July 12, 2017

The News Media Alliance, a trade group representing almost 2,000 news organizations, has asked US Congress for an exemption to antitrust law so that it can “negotiate collectively” with Google and Facebook. The Alliance, formerly known as the Newspaper Association […]

May 4, 2017

Post-presidential record-keeping practices are moving into the digital age. The National Archives and Records Administration will start digitizing the unclassified records of the Obama administration, using a new model for the storage of presidential records. Instead of building a new […]

March 30, 2017

Microservices have a big future in digital government. Digital government services have been primarily built using a custom approach. This can produce enormous code bases that must be maintained. The complexity of custom code can make it difficult to reuse […]

March 23, 2017

As organizations going through M&A transactions begin to emerge from the massive surge of work, CIOs must consider how they can pivot toward an operating model that drives digital value. We have already explored the areas of the IT workforce […]

November 23, 2016

Massachusetts convened the first meeting of its Digital Healthcare Councilon Tuesday, the office of Governor Charlie Baker announced. The council discussed how the state can expand efforts around emerging healthcare technologies like electronic health records, wearable devices, care and payment management […]

October 18, 2016

We’re in an intense era of digital transformation in which every industry is experiencing a shift. And out of this shift we’ve seen the rise of a new digital economy. Some consider that economy – driven by the arrival of […]

September 15, 2016

CIA Director John Brennan said he believes that the digital space provides a challenge to governance models that is fundamentally new in human history and that the U.S. government needs to do more to meet the challenge. “We have known […]

July 29, 2016

It’s no secret that exciting Digital Age technologies such as cloud, mobile and social media are allowing us to connect and create value across boundaries and changing the nature of human interaction and invention. As a result, Americans have new […]

September 4, 2015

The preservation of public records has always been an important matter for any government. Records are created for a variety of activities such as vehicle registration, professional licensing, procurement contract transactions, general correspondence, and others. The usual ways in which […]

April 22, 2015

Filing cabinets, gray cubicles and three-ring binders of department policy conjure an image of state government that disguises a more pregnant message. A reflection of the times can be found in heaps of bureaucratic paperwork, and in 2015, there is […]

March 24, 2015

Google said Monday an Egyptian company issued digital certificates that could have been used to intercept data traffic to its services, which did not appear to have been abused. The incident is the latest example of longstanding problems around the […]

February 27, 2015

The president’s rhetoric about the federal government embracing innovation and new technologies is taking hold. At a cybersecurity summit earlier this month, Apple announced that its smartphone payment system, Apple Pay, would soon be accepted at national parks, and for […]