David Fletcher's Government and Technology Weblognews & perspectives from a long-time egov advocateInnovation in the European Union- May 31, 2005 Margot Allstrom, Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communications for the European Union has a very well read blog where she shares her thoughts regarding issues related to the EU. Commissioner Viviane Reding who is responsible for Media and the Information Society takes a more traditional and controlled press release approach to sharing news of her commission's work. Not nearly as dynamic. She does address, however, some great issues including her address this morning on.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/31.html#a1651 State Megaprojects- May 17, 2005 An article in the Winston-Salem Journal points out some major systems challenges for North Carolina. They have a 25-year old payroll system that is being held together by a soon-to-retire employee. They are projecting an $85.7 million project to replace the system. That's a lot of money for a payrollpersonnel system. I will simply say that it was done for a small fraction of that cost in Utah. But that's only the beginning. They spent $90 million for a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/17.html#a1650 The Tom Warne Report- May 17, 2005 I discovered that State Representative John Dougall has created a new weblog late last night, but when posting it to my new experimental enewsblog, forgot to add the link, so I don't have it this morning. I am looking forward to a regular read of Dougall posts. He comes from a technology background, but has been active in developing legislation in a number of key areas. I did add the link for the Tom Warne Report. Tom is the former executive director of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/17.html#a1649 Autonomic Computing- May 10, 2005 I think we need to develop a vision strategy that builds autonomic computing into the enterprise architecture. Anything that we can do to automate the management and maintenance of infrastructure will free up the creative ability of human resources to focus on the development and creation of new systems to enhance the way we do business and improve the services that we deliver. That is where value is found. Here's a good article on the vision of autonomic computing....http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/10.html#a1644 500 Day Plan for HHS Highlights Tech Initiatives- May 10, 2005 Governor Leavitt has carried his 500 day plan concept with him from the EPA to the Department of Human Services and created a new plan that features many significant technology initiatives and creates a nice vision for where he wants to take the department. Here are some highlights: Will convene a national collaboration to further develop, set and certify health information technology standards and outcomes for interoperability, privacy and data exchange. Will realize the near-term...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/10.html#a1643 Blogging Local Government- May 6, 2005 Trudy Schuett maintains the Yuma Tech Consortium blog for the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce in Arizona. Government Technology provides some additonal ideas on how local governments can use blogs. The director of the Chicago Transit Authority, Carole Brown, is another public official that is using her blog to communicate with constituents. In response, the "CTA Tattler" is calling for an invasion of Carole's blog. Former governor Jerry Brown of California is using his blog to promote his.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/06.html#a1641 Fiber and Intelligent Transportation Systems- May 6, 2005 Bonj gives us some occassional updates on the IT consolidation efforts in Missouri. I looks like right now, one of the major discussion items is the shared use of Missouri DOT's dark fiber. DOT's around the country are putting in fiber networks to support the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Massachussetts is using the ITS fiber to provide internet service in underserved areas of the state and enhance regional competitiveness. Fort Bragg is anticipating...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/06.html#a1640 Data Collection Project for Utah's IT Consolidation- May 6, 2005 I mentioned earlier that we are doing a series of online surveys to collect data about the entire IT operation in the State of Utah. The data will be collected in MySQL databases and then we will need to best determine how to produce meaningful output that can be used in creating the new consolidated IT structure. I like how the Knowlex online encyclopedia has made their content available in several useful formats, so maybe we'll try to use something like iText to generate PDFs on...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/06.html#a1639 Great New Public Health Resources Online- May 3, 2005 Newt Gingrich has founded the Center for Health Transformation. The Center's goal is to create a "21st Century Intelligent Health System." May is National Fitness and Sports Month. Find out more at fitness.gov. HHS has also published a new parents guide at 4parents.gov. Utah has a new Genomics Program website. The new Utah State University Merrill Cazier Library will use RFIDs to track books in the system. Their digital library has a growing collection of historical.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/05/03.html#a1633 |