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Joseph Marks
Staff Correspondent
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.
Feds' strength may be in providing data, not building apps
July 19, 2011
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Federal agencies can often do more to improve public knowledge and safety by providing raw data to private sector mobile app developers than by trying to create the programs themselves, officials told an industry audience Tuesday. The trick is ensuring that entrepreneurs have access to solid, vetted and timely government ...
From Nextgov: Feds' strength may be in providing data, not building apps
July 19, 2011 Federal agencies can often do more to improve public knowledge and safety by providing raw data to private sector mobile app developers than by trying to create the programs themselves, officials told an industry audience Tuesday. Read the full story on Nextgov.
SSA CIO Resigns
July 18, 2011
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The Social Security Administration's Chief Information Officer Frank Baitman resigned on Friday, part of a major reorganization at the agency following a funding cut in the fiscal 2011 budget, Federal News Radio reported. SSA Commissioner Mike Astrue appointed deputy commissioner for systems Kelly Croft to "assume CIO responsibilities," according to ...
The 138 Words You Can't Say on Turkish Internet
July 18, 2011
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An otherwise staid hearing on Internet freedom and repressive regimes turned nearly salacious for a moment Friday when Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., questioned a State Department official about a list of words the Turkish government recently tried to ban from Turkish websites. The Turkish Telecommunications Directorate, or TIB, sent a ...
Government apps should be task-oriented and mission driven, Mobile Gov director says
July 18, 2011
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Federal information technology workers now designing government mobile apps should learn from the experience of their 1990s counterparts who developed the first round of federal websites, the director of the Mobile Govproject told Nextgov recently. "We didn't know in the '90s how important websites were going to be as communication ...
Archives Wants to Put 1940 Census Online
July 15, 2011
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The National Archives is seeking industry input on a plan to create a searchable database of 1940 U.S. census information when it becomes publicly available in 2012. By law all census information must become public 72 years after it is collected. This time, instead of simply making images of the ...
Data.gov Plus Facebook Could Cause Privacy Concerns
July 15, 2011
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As the White House tries to push more government datasets into the public domain through its trademark Data.gov website, one challenge it has faced is the so-called mosaic effect, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told an advisory council Friday. The mosaic effect is when pieces of data are innocuous ...
Internet repression on the rise since Arab Spring
July 15, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
There's been a ramp up in Internet blocking and what appears to be government-sponsored denial-of-service attacks across several repressive, non-Arab regimes since the Arab Spring uprisings, a State Department official told lawmakers Friday. It's not clear, though, whether those countries are cracking down in response to uprisings in the Middle ...
From Nextgov: Internet repression on the rise since Arab Spring
July 15, 2011 There's been a ramp up in Internet blocking and what appears to be government-sponsored denial-of-service attacks across several repressive, non-Arab regimes since the Arab Spring uprisings, a State Department official told lawmakers Friday. Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.
New Board Could Reset Federal Spending, Kundra Says
July 14, 2011
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President Obama's new Government Accountability and Transparency Board could be a "total reset" in terms of how the government manages its payments, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told lawmakers Thursday. The new board, established by executive order in June, will be modeled on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, ...
