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Year-End Tech Musings: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 11:08 AM by DELevin

Filed under:Policy Beat,Business Development,SPAM,Mobile

The world of tech writers has been busy naming Top 10 tech stories of the year or decade. I thought that I would join the bandwagon by looking back at a few predictions fulfilled and/or gone awry -- and then glancing forward. I'll also weigh in on policy...
Opening Up Government

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 9:15 AM by VFI Blog Admin

Filed under:open government,Government IT,ODGI

Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Microsoft Federal, dicussed implicaitons of the directive on open government in a December 9th blog post on Microsoft's FutureFed. Voices for Innovation is interested to hear your thoughts on the open goverment directive;...
Interoperability: The Technology Works, Now People Need to Share

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 11:31 AM by DELevin

Filed under:Interoperability,open government,Data Sharing

Steve Mutkoski, a standards guy at Microsoft, has a very interesting post on Microsoft on the Issues about IT, e-government, and interoperability, which has business and technological implications beyond government. I encourage VFI members and others...
Ask the NTO: Growing Health IT Momentum

Published Sun, Dec 13 2009 6:35 PM by AskTheNTO

Filed under:Health IT,Ask the NTO

“How will public policies influence the use of health IT? And where do you see business opportunities in health IT?” – Beth in Portland, Oregon Thank you for your two-part question. And welcome VFI members and other readers to the third installment of...
A Chance to Discuss the Evolution of Data.gov

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 5:19 PM by VFI Blog Admin

Filed under:open government

Last spring, the White House tech people hosted some online discussions as part of the development of the Open Government Directive. It was something of an experiment, and though there was substantive dialogue, there was also a lot of quasi-spam and off...
White House Finally Issues Open Government Directive -- First Impressions

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 1:03 PM by DELevin

Filed under:open government

Today, the White House issued its Open Government Directive. You can find it here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf . As you may recall, one of President Obama's first acts in office was to ask the Office of Management and...
Microsoft at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 11:41 AM by VFI Blog Admin

Filed under:Green Tech,Climate Change

Over at the Microsoft on the Issues blog, Rob Bernard, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, offers a detailed post about Microsoft's approach to helping address climate change through technology. He provides some resources and an overview of the...

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Year-End Tech Musings: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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Interoperability: The Technology Works, Now People Need to Share

Ask the NTO: Growing Health IT Momentum

A Chance to Discuss the Evolution of Data.gov

White House Finally Issues Open Government Directive -- First Impressions

Microsoft at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen