http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/ LNW Blog OpenACS 5.0 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:28:53 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/ 126 48 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=589017 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=589017 It should be a great discussion with Aneesh Chopra, Anne Margulies, Teri Takai, and me. We'll be working to identify what's REALLY new about technology in government, and what should be done about it. See: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/JFK-Jr.-Forum-Calendar/FORUM-"Digital-Governance-From-the-State-House-to-the-White-House" Hope you can make it. All the best, Jerry Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:28:53 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=569984 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=569984 Check THIS out: Michigan to merge departments of Management and Budget (DMB) and Information Technology (DIT). OK, so it's not THAT rare to have the two units together. But check the small print: "Kenneth Theis, current director of DIT, will oversee the consolidation of the two departments and will ultimately be named director of the new department. How many jurisdictions are putting their CIO in charge of budgeting, the most important policy process in government? (Congratulations, Ke... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:57 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=563955 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=563955 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:36:12 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=559276 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=559276 Very interesting McKinsey interview with Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar today. Zipcar offers rental by the hour from nearby in the neighborhood. That contrasts with traditional rental cars that typically offer by the day or week from the airport. IT developed over the past twenty years makes this happen efficiently and effectively enough to make it a business. Customers, after all, have got to be easily able to find if a car is available, where it is, how to get in, how to solve any emer... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:04:14 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=554747 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=554747 Well, for part of his day on October 22nd - for an hour in the morning - he was discussing and working with a group of Canadian public officials and me in Toronto. We were exploring strategies for using technology for "bottom up" reform. The core idea was that Gov 2.0 (infrastructure and tools for interactive participation and cloud economies of scope and scale) are combining with tough times to push for serious cost-cutting and organizational redesign in government. Unfortunately, the... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:33 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=548650 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=548650 It's a Gladwell (New Yorker, Tipping Point) article. The focus is winning when you're the underdog. He focuses on basketball and Lawrence of Arabia. I loved it partly because I played on a basketball team that won that way (but not enough of the teams I played on did). Also because Lawrence of Arabia was the big movie my sophomore year (I even read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence's book). But you MIGHT like it because it's a well-written piece that makes you think about uncommon stra... Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:14:09 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=544290 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=544290 In the technology community, many of us come from science and engineering backgrounds. We solve puzzles. Compared to others, we are good at quickly finding the right answers. Our code runs. We've known we are good puzzle solvers since roughly the 4th grade. What we've often missed in this early self-awareness is that many of the world's problems aren't puzzles with right and wrong answers. They're people problems. The challenge is getting a group to agree on how to work together. There are ma... Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:35 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=539564 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=539564 Summer's now over (well, not legally, but school has started and that's good enough for me). We're still in tough times. Some argue that the truly nasty economy will lead to major new moves. That history shows most truly big shifts took place during tough times. That "Necessity is the Mother of invention." Others don't see it that way. There's no money for new things. Everyone is hunkering down, protecting what they've got. My take is that the 2009-2012 stretch will soon be looked ba... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:28:25 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=524327 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=524327 Thanks for the probing ideas that came back on game-changing opportunities to solve the "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste" challenge. Here's one from Bob Knisely, former Deputy Director of the NPR, the initiative that got many folks started on thinking about the impacts technology might make in reinventing government." For many serious changes, the biggest step is moving from an idea to something that shows value and motivates necessary but later work to smooth things out. Could Facebo... Tue, 05 May 2009 02:00:04 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=519904 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=519904 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... Fri, 01 May 2009 20:45:09 GMT