• Crime, Punishment and Data
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   December 16, 2009
• Just weeks ago, career criminal Maurice Clemmons walked into a Lakewood, Washington, coffee shop and gunned down four police officers. Although this particular crime could...
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• Finding Deadbeats
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   December 1, 2009
• The problem of child support enforcement is a big one. This column highlights Virginia, which found a creative idea that uses a relatively low-tech approach...
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• Last Call for Deadbeats
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   November 30, 2009
• Locating parents who are negligent on their child support payments just got a little easier with an innovative approach used by Virginia's Division of Child...
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• Murky Transparency
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   November 24, 2009
• The movement toward open government is well underway, with the Obama administration leading the charge. The effort is praiseworthy, but the implementation is proving dicey....
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• Open Gov Implementation Hits Snags
• Posted By: Zachary Tumin |   November 24, 2009
• Just when you thought it was safe to go in the open gov waters, suddenly there are a couple of sharks swimming in the implementation...
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• Email in the News
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   October 28, 2009
• In LA, the city has just signed a contract with Google to handle email for 30,000 city employees, a $7.25 million deal that is the largest of...
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• Not Being There
• Posted By: Robert Knisely |   October 26, 2009
• Organizations - even Federal bureaucracies - are only information and people. The more information becomes mobile, the less people need to be. A December 2008 report...
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• Making Data Sharing Possible
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   October 15, 2009
• A few years ago Harvard Kennedy School recognized the Department of Justice Global HTML project that simply by defining data protocols dramatically improved the ability...
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• Breaking Down the Barriers to Sharing Information
• Posted By: Zachary Tumin |   October 15, 2009
• NIEM is making its move. The National Information Exchange Model is fast emerging as a key to the domain of cross-boundary information sharing. Having gained...
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• Integrating Service Delivery: Lessons from Other Countries
• Posted By: Jonathan D. Breul |   September 29, 2009
• Government reformers for years have been talking about creating citizen-centric services, organized around citizen needs, not around the convenience of bureaucrats. For years, it has...
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