Without a doubt, lots of (read: unprecedented) progress was made in the government 2.0 world in 2009. We saw the first federal CIO and CTOs appointed, the launch of Apps.gov and even the White House embracing the open source Drupal content management system for their Web site. At this pace, 2010 will be an even [...]
Scribd, SlideShare and 19 other social media tools are featured on Apps.gov, the General Services Administration’s new government cloud computing Web site that launched today. U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced the site, writing in a post on the White House Blog: Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and [...]
In the speech that President Obama is set to deliver tomorrow to America’s schoolchildren, a paragraph caught our attention: It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression [...]
Although there might still be a “coming soon” box on the much-anticipated data.gov Web site, that isn’t stopping Google from getting a head start on developing new capabilities that will allow users to easily search and compare vast amounts of numbers and statistics in the public domain. Yesterday, the Internet giant announced that it will [...]