At this week’s Gov 2.0 Summit, the feds seemed to have a coming out party of sorts for their new approach to IT in government – do it faster, lighter and be more transparent. Kundra & Chopra spoke about how open standards and building platforms for citizens to expound on government data should be major [...]

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To make Cloud Computing work for government, it helps to take a step back and understand why the technology has been so successful elsewhere.

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Jay and I had an interesting conversation with Peter Corbett from iStrategy Labs a few days ago. If you aren’t familiar with the firm, they are the brains behind the acclaimed data-off sponsored by the DC City Government – Apps for Democracy. The idea was frankly brilliant in both its elegance and execution. So much [...]

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My company sponsored a recent InfoWeek survey (results) and conference on Best Practices for Government 2.0. Jay and I had not only the good fortune to attend, but the good sense to remain silent while cheeky_geeky and Dan Mintz presented some interesting material to the crowd of mostly government workers. Tracy Haugen kicked off the session [...]

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BearingPoint sponsored the DC Atlassian user Group and despite multiple warnings (pleas?) from anyone who has seen us speak before, they gracefully allowed Jay and I to give a quick presentation on our Confluence, Crowd, and JIRA implementation. Clearly we were hearkening Donnie and Marie as Jay was looking a little bit rock and roll [...]

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