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August 21, 2006
US slips in e‑gov rankings
As reported on GovExec’s Fedblog:
U.S. Leapfrogged in E‑Gov Rankings The United States government has slipped a spot in the world-wide rankings for electronic government compiled by Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy. Researchers analyzed nearly 200 countries to come…
GSA to study agencies’ service to citizens
While its focus will be on call centers, e‑mail responses, and web sites, it’s still good to see the GSA studying how well agencies are servicing citizen’s information needs. The first iteration of FirstGov was an amalgamation of sites but…
August 12, 2006
OMB seeks proof of e‑gov cost savings
Following Congress’s action to reduce funding for e‑gov, OMB is now asking for agencies to identify e‑gov costs and savings. This is going to put more pressure on folks in CIO offices to gather yet more data. It’s data that…
August 9, 2006
Measuring government ROI
InfoWorld reports that SAP executives have said that “struggle to define and measure the economic, social and political returns of government-funded technology programs”. At the root of this, of course, is the desire of vendors like SAP to help government…
August 3, 2006
2007 Excellence.Gov Awards topic: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Collaboration
Every year the Excellence.Gov Awards are held to highlight the very best government IT projects, and I’m the chair this year! The awards receive significant publicity every year, including the annual award ceremony, which is one of the Industry Advisory…
S.2590 amended
The THOMAS site hasn’t been updated yet but here’s the amended version of S.2590. The revisions are as follows:
Enactment date delayed from beginning of 2007 to beginning of 2008;
Requirement for a 10-year archive of data has been removed;
Individual transactions…
August 2, 2006
PMA scores improve for e‑gov
GovExec reports today that agencies are generally improving their e‑gov scores against the President’s Management Agenda. The scorecard shows that:
For progress of implementation:
Interior, Justice, DOT, VA, SBA, and SSA are all scored red (“unsatisfactory”)
Defense, EPA, DHS, Treasury, Corps…
August 1, 2006
More on that GCN story / business problem ≠ technology problem
Yesterday I posted about this GCN story that seems to lay all blame for grants management inefficiencies at Grants.gov’s door. In re-reading the article, think the author got the wrong end of the stick from GAO’s report. Here’s the first sentence…
ITIL and EA are not the same thing
GCN has an interview with Malcolm Fry, who’s considered the “father” of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Fry says that “ITIL is, to some degree, enterprise architecture”. But as Wikipedia accurately describes, ITIL is a set of service management best practices.…
2006 International Enterprise Architecture Survey
John Gøtze highlights a fascinating and comprehensive survey of enterprise architecture implementations and utilization in governments worldwide. Some of the conclusions aren’t surprising (limited realization of EA goals, little calculation of benefits versus costs, etc.) but it’s encouraging to see such…