Last week, the New York State Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) joined over 200 industry officials in a session to discuss how…
In an effort to stop some of the financial bleeding in the state Medicaid system, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General…
During a forum held at the Brookings Institution yesterday in Washington, D.C. Microsoft senior vice president and general council, Brad Smith, proposed federal legislation meant…
In 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California Performance Review, which included a section called State Operations #10 that officially unlocked the door for open…
O’Reilly Media’s first Government 2.0 Online conference was held Thursday, where five case studies were put on display to show how transparency, participation, and collaboration…
California’s Alameda County is using IBM analytics technology to make their Social Services Agency (SSA) more efficient and detect possible fraud or abuse, the company…
As the dust settled in Philadelphia following the National Conference of State Legislatures Friday, new faces and a new-found resolve to pickup the pieces of a broken economy marked the end of a week-long summit rife with a mixture of concern, uncertainty and optimism.
In June of this year, New York State’s Office for Technology jumped into the arena of social media and Web 2.0 technologies with the launch of Empire 2.0. And last week, Deputy CIO of Enterprise Strategy & Governance Services for OFT, Rico Singleton, released a memo regarding Empire 2.0′s Wiki Policy page. “
One of the biggest problems concerning tax collection is that the federal government pays people who owe money to state or local government. For those that are responsible for the management of state and local funds – the business of government – this presents a huge problem. But for Arlington County Treasurer Frank O’Leary, it also presents a huge opportunity.
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) recognized fifty-two local governments this week for their performance measurement and management practices.
