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Joseph Marks
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Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
Data Center Consolidation Savings ‘Minimal’ So Far
May 14, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
An initiative to consolidate federal data centers has yielded minimal savings so far and the government is unlikely to meet its goal of $3 billion in savings by 2015, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday. Agencies have also failed to adequately report on their data center cost ...
Dot-govs Dip Below 1,000
May 14, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Remember that plan to drastically consolidate federal websites? Progress on the initiative has been slow since mid-2011 when President Obama first highlighted dot-gov proliferation as part of his campaign to cut government waste. As we approach the three-year anniversary of that initiative, though, the government has passed a milestone. For ...
The Story of an Open Document
May 14, 2013
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When a cross-government team prepared to write the government’s new open data policy they wanted to do it in the most open way possible, Ben Balter, a Presidential Innovation Fellow who worked on the project, said. So for its primer on best open data practices, the team eschewed the common ...
Feds Release Source Code for Dozens of Government Apps
May 14, 2013
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The government’s Digital Services Innovation Center posted the computer code for dozens of citizen-facing mobile applications and websites to the code-sharing site Github on Tuesday. Officials at the center, which is part of the General Services Administration, posted the Mobile Code Catalog to Github so developers from other agencies or ...
ICE Wants One Supplier for All Its Mobile Needs
May 13, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is looking for a single company to cover all its mobile needs, from providing equipment and data services to mobile device management and services to improve cell coverage inside its buildings. The provider should also offer a Web portal where ICE can order additional ...
Not All Data Are Equal
May 13, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
This article has been updated to correct a typo in the original headline. One step to making government more data-driven is figuring out which data can lead to good decisions and which are less valuable, Office of Management and Budget official Kathryn Stack said Monday. “Frankly one of the steps ...
A New One-Stop Shop for State-Level Mobile Apps
May 13, 2013
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Looking for farm fresh produce in Delaware or curious about the driver’s test in Montana? The National Association of State Chief Information Officers can hook you up. The association launched a catalog of state government mobile applications Monday featuring about 160 apps from 47 states. The goal is to give ...
How YouTube Can Make Your Congressional Hearing a Hit
May 10, 2013
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A video of Wednesday’s Benghazi hearing that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee live streamed on YouTube is already the 18th most viewed video out of roughly 2,400 on the committee’s page. Wednesday was the first time any Congressional committee live streamed a hearing on YouTube, though most committees ...
CDC Wants Trainees to 'Temporarily Forget' Exercises Aren't Real
May 10, 2013
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deploys staff members to some of the most stressful and dangerous environments on earth and the agency wants to make sure they have the emotional wherewithal to handle that pressure. In 2009, the CDC began using virtual reality environments that mimicked the sights, ...
A Blast from the Open Data Past
May 9, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
With President Obama’s release of new cross-government open data standards Thursday, I thought it would be a good time to look back at this 1996 New York Times article. (My apologies for any pay wall issues). That’s the year President Clinton issued a policy statement clarifying that the U.S. military ...
