Weekly Round-up: November 30, 2012

Submitted by on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 15:02

I've been out with Strep this week (did you know that they treat Strep with straight-up penicillin? That 84-year old mold is still rocking and rolling against bacilli of all stripes!  If you want to know what I've been up to (aside from ingesting fungus to fight a bacteria, turning my body into a Godzilla vs. Mothra movie), take a look at this series on emerging trends on Gov Exec and GOV.Aol.

Federal Government Reform Resources: Anticipatory Governance Report

Submitted by on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:46

Former Vice Presidential National Security Advisor Leon Fuerth, working with Evan Faber, has released a white paper that has been a decade in the making.  The paper describes how the federal government is increasingly facing challenges of greater complexity that demand faster action than the current institutional structures can respond to effectively.

Center Releases New Report: Mitigating Risks in the Application of Cloud Computing in Law Enforcement

Submitted by on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:14

Today, the IBM Center for The Business of Government is pleased to release the report, Mitigating Risks in the Application of Cloud Computing in Law Enforcement, by Paul Wormeli, Executive Director Emeritus, IJIS Institute.

Federal Government Reform Resources: Memos to National Leaders

Submitted by on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:07

If President Obama meets with Governor Romney to discuss ways to reform the operations of the federal government, here are some resources they have to draw upon. A number of think tanks have busily been preparing a series of white papers to spark the imaginations of those developing a reform agenda. These are not to be confused with agendas for new policies (such as climate change or immigration reform) or budget decisions, such as the pending fiscal debates.

Emerging Innovation and Social Media Trends: Networked Sensors

Submitted by on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 13:58

 

It's 1991, and some computer science professors are tired of walking into their computer lab of the University of Cambridge only to find an empty pot of coffee.  Their solution: install a camera and connect it to the server so they could ascertain the status of the coffee pot from their desks.  The rest is internet history.

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