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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.
White House Freezes New Websites For Three Months
June 13, 2011
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The White House ordered a 90-day freeze on all new websites that use the .gov domain on Monday as part of a major push to increase government efficiency and cut down on duplication and waste. Any agency that wants to launch a new website during that time must get a ...
Biden, GOP call for oversight board and website modeled on Recovery.gov
June 13, 2011
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Vice President Joe Biden on Monday announced the launch of a governmentwide campaign to cut government waste, including the creation of an oversight board modeled on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which used a website to track federal stimulus money. The head of the new board will be former ...
Biden, GOP announce spending watchdog plans
June 13, 2011 Vice President Joe Biden on Monday announced the launch of a governmentwide campaign to cut government waste, including the creation of an oversight board modeled on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which used a website to track federal stimulus money. The head of the new board will be former ...
Friending the White House Is So Old School
June 10, 2011
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The Obama Administration's Twitter followers are younger than its Facebook fans and better at staying in touch, according to results from an unscientific poll the White House conducted on the two social media sites. Half of respondents to the Facebook survey were over the age of 50 while only 32 ...
New Portal Will Cut 10 Days From FOIA Process, Achives Says
June 10, 2011
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A cloud-based portal to manage and track Freedom of Information Act requests and disputes should reduce the average FOIA case time at the National Archives and Records Administration from 25 to 15 days, the agency said in a memo posted Friday on the Cio.gov blog . The new portal, which ...
Helping Consumers from the Cloud
June 10, 2011
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It's been slow going in most ways for President Obama's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its as-yet-unconfirmed director. But the new watchdog agency is apparently ahead of the curve on information technology. The Treasury Department is using cloud hosting as a preferred approach for all of the agency's IT ...
Biden to unveil new plan to cut government waste
June 10, 2011 Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to announce Monday a new plan to cut waste across government agencies. The plan is related to a proposal from the government's chief stimulus spending watchdog that all tracking of government spending be modeled on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board's oversight of the ...
NOAA to Move Email to the Cloud
June 9, 2011
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will move its 25,000-user email system to the cloud-based Google Apps for Government by the end of the year at a cost of $11.5 million, the agency said in a statement Thursday. NOAA will be the largest federal agency to move its email systems ...
CNAS: Make it Illegal for U.S. Companies to Aid Internet-Suppressing Autocrats
June 9, 2011
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Congress should pass laws prohibiting American corporations from giving autocratic regimes the private information of anti-government protesters and force them to periodically disclose any requests for such data to the U.S. government, the Center for a New American Security argues in a new report. The CNAS report on Internet Freedom ...
Agencies cite progress six months after IT reform mandate
June 9, 2011
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Six months after federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra issued his 25-point information technology reform plan, agencies are boasting improvements ranging from moving email and other services to the cloud to creating an online IT shop. The Commerce Department, for instance, transferred some of its interactive online services to the ...
