Civics

DOJ CIO Vance Hitch on cybersecurity, cloud computing

I interviewed U.S. Department of Justice Chief Information Officer Vance Hitch during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit, where he discussed cybersecurity priorities and cloud computing security.

NIST Deputy Cyber Security Advisor Donna Dodson shares public service career advice

This week at FedScoop we’re featuring Donna Dodson, Division Chief of the Computer Security Division and the Deputy Cyber Security Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as FedMentor of the Week. I interviewed Dodson during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit in February. Full playlist:

‘Integrated’ is the new ‘open’ for government

37signals points out Apple’s use of the word ‘integrated’ as opposed to ‘open’ in the ongoing ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ debate (Apple changes words in order to change the debate), and it has important relevance to the open government movement.

Fantastic manor.govfresh video by Manor New Tech High School students

Students from the Manor New Tech High School created a fantastic Manor GovFresh Reflection video about manor.govfresh.

manor.govfresh featured on White House blog

U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck wrote about the manor.govfresh event and De Leon, TX, makeover on the White House Blog (City in a Box: Municipal Makeover Comes to Texas). manor.govfresh was a collaborative effort between GovFresh and the City of Manor, TX.

BetaCities

BetaCities is a new community for ‘catalyzing municipal government innovation’ founded by Dustin Haisler. I created the logo, icon and ‘Change is local’ tagline. Used Harbara Bold and Symbol font for the beta ‘B.’

‘City Makeover’ and the new De Leon, TX Website

The dark secret behind the City of De Leon, TX, Website was that it was designed, developed and deployed in 24 hours. As part of the manor.govfresh ‘City Makeover,’ I re-designed and developed the new De Leon Website using the free GovFresh WordPress Theme as the foundation.

Huffington Post covers manor.govfresh, U.S. Deputy CTO Beth Noveck gives me a shout-out

Alex Howard has a great overview of manor.govfresh in the Huffington Post. He notes how U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck recognized our work around open government and putting together the event (Harnessing the Civic Surplus for Open Government).

‘Well ahead of the open government curve’

Founder and CEO of Crimereports.com Greg Whisenant mentions my work with GovFresh and manor.govfresh in How do we get government to share data? on O’Reilly Radar.

Gov 2.0, vendors, vibe and industry as patriot

sf.govfresh was an incredible event that brought together San Francisco’s finest government technology leaders, local area public servants and citizens sincerely passionate about building effective government. Adobe supported us in making that event happen and received an incredible amount of appreciation from the community.

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