LAPSI | The European Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information CQ Roll Call Site Will Help Users Contact Legislators There are Web sites that cover the actions and inactions of Congress. And there are Web sites that let voters contact their members of Congress and comment. CQ Roll Call wants to bridge the two. This week, the media company is revamping one of its Web sites, Congress.org, with an eye toward what one of its executives, Peter Anthony, calls “informed action.” “If I’m reading an article on Congress.org about an issue that’s important to me, I can very quickly contact my member of Congress and let them know how I feel about a specific issue,” said Mr. In the past, Congress.org, a consumer-friendly version of the professional-grade Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call Web sites, has lacked up-to-date information on the bills being taken up by legislators. The company signed up an initial sponsor for the renewed site, the American Beverage Association, and will seek other sponsors in the future.
OMB – FEA Segment Architecture Based Planning Fraught with Empirical Dilemma (Cognitive Dissonance) « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation November 12, 2008 by Srinidhi Boray The new Federal Segment Architecture Methodology Link below. The New Guidance is still based on Federal Reference Models and the emphasis on Service Reference Model continues to exists. Reference: FEA Practice Guidance (This is the old link prior to 2009) OLDER : Segment Architecture based Planning By Srinidhi Boray Following inaccuracies in the OMB’s Reference Model and Segment Architecture Methodology – allows for inadvertently promoting bureaucracy in the agency’s OCIO rather than reducing it. 1. To understand “reuse plan” with regards to agencies redundancy reduction planning it is worth establishing clarity between “empirical” and “analysis,” with regards to “common services” a term defined within the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model framework that was established by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). o Empirical - o Analysis – § 1: separation of a whole into its component parts 2. 3. Like this: Like Loading...
Microsoft Windows Azure se dote de deux nouveaux kits Disponible via le cloud, Microsoft Windows Azure est un PaaS (Platform-as-a Service). Il répond à une demande croissante ce de type de plate-forme de développement autour de laquelle gravite un véritable écosystème avec un langage propre, des outils dédiés au développement et des modules. Microsoft annonce ainsi deux nouveaux modules : PRESTO et OGDI. Plus d’un milliard de documents sont échangés entre administrations chaque année. Fort de ce constat, la DGME (Direction Générale pour la Modernisation de l’Etat) s’est lancée dans un chantier collaboratif avec pour objectif la normalisation d’une enveloppe technique d’échange de données. PRESTO a été définie en conformité avec les exigences d’ouverture, d’interopérabilité et de modularité avec comme fil rouge le respect des standards internationaux. C’est le 13 septembre 2006 que PRESTO 1 a été publié sur la base des services Web.
How to Ask Candidates Questions that Make a Difference by Fran Korten Tips for spreading your ideas without getting the runaround. posted Feb 24, 2012 The Occupy movement has changed the political conversation. But will it make a difference in what politicians actually do? Our political discourse now regularly includes references to inequality, corporate power, and Wall Street excess. So when candidates show up at political and professional meetings, hold fundraisers, or are on the radio, we can ask questions that put forward policy ideas. These opportunities only work well if we craft our question carefully. Here are some dos and don’ts for asking questions that can help us all take advantage of this political moment. Ask your question in a way that can be heard Sound reasonable. Use your question to move an idea forward Put forward an idea rather than asking a general question. The dos and don’ts in action Now let me apply these dos and don’ts to a few fresh ideas. Now it’s your turn. Fran Korten wrote this article for YES! Interested?
DC Meltdown & Role of EA in establishing ‘Accountability’ in Federal IT Spending « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation September 25, 2008 by Srinidhi Boray By Srinidhi Boray As the Wall Street melts down, so does the DC. One quick survey and it will yield how lacking many big institutions are. Catering to the IT market are bandied many large IT vendors. It is a cartel, that systematically eats out the tax payers money. In the federal sector, The Clinger Cohen Act was established to bring in greater accountability in addition to several other things. Link to Campbell Brown’s article on CNN “”What’s amazing to me is that the administration seems a little surprised that Congress and the American people are not marching in lockstep with them on this and not fully appreciating the urgency. Well here’s why, in one word: accountability.”””” Like this: Like Loading...
Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)—Microsoft Government Cloud computing for government Government IT at its best: Cloud computing provides solutions for government. Help improve reliability and help save money by integrating hosted services into your IT strategy. Cloud Application Center Discover cloud computing government solutions and public sector software to get your agency in the cloud quickly. Government 2.0 Open government, also known as open gov or gov 2.0, can help transform government. Telework solutions for government Microsoft in e-government: Telework has become an attractive and practical alternative. Unified communications for your agency Microsoft government solutions can help agencies streamline and unify internal and external communications.
GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress Enterprise Architecture – Economic Model – System Dynamics « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation August 22, 2007 by Srinidhi Boray By Srinidhi Boray Enterprise Architecture Assists in Understanding Enterprise’s Unique Economic Model Remember : With Increasing Complexity Degree of Freedom Reduces When System Strives for Extreme Commoditization – Individual Should Strive for Specialized & Unique Competencies On 26th Feb’ 2009 CNN Reports – Reason for GM failure blamed on steep Fixed Cost. However one may attempt to distort reality, in the end one cannot play with numbers, as numbers are mere numbers. Gartner has begun to endorse the view proposed in this article. As an anti-thesis – this is also said of Maths by Albert Einstein “as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.“ This is where Enterprise Architecture improves upon on by providing better abstraction and logical reasoning by introducing structure derived from ontology that is intrinsically ‘architecture’. Like this: Like Loading...
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