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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about information technology and its use within government.
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- Center for Digital Government - United States - Archive
- Archived articles and resources about the Center for Digital Government in the United States.
Added: 10 February 2006
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- Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010
- The Report is the ninth of a series published by the World Economic Forum (the Forum) and INSEAD. The report highlights the key role of ICT as an enabler of a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world
Added: 5 August 2010
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- Information and Communications Technology - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in information and communications technology within the United Kingdom.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Information Technology (A-O) - Archive
- Resources about information technology and information technology security in government.
Added: 2 December 2005
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - United States - Archive
- Archived reports and resources about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States.
Added: 9 February 2006
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- The internet of things
- Video Provided by IBM Social Media. There are more things on the internet than their are people on the internet.
Added: 29 August 2011
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- USAspending.gov - IT Dashboard
- The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of US Government Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time.
Added: 2 July 2009
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- How cloud storage could catch up with big data
- By John Moore. Federal Computer Week, April 17, 2012. "Cloud computing has managed to make the world's already colossal appetite for data storage even more voracious... The so-called big data problem has surfaced in the past two years to rank among the primary IT challenges... And now another technology, already at work behind the scenes, could grow in importance in the coming years. Erasure coding has been around since the 1980s, but until recently its use in storage circles has mainly been confined to single storage boxes as a way to boost reliability more efficiently..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- The Global Information Technology Report 2012 - in pdf format (11,331kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Living in a Hyperconnected World. World Economic Forum and INSEAD, Insight Report - edited by Soumitra Dutta and Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, 2012. "The Global Information Technology Report 2012 is a special project within the framework of the World Economic Forum's Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance and the Industry Partnership Programme for Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries. It is the result of a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and INSEAD... Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly hyperconnected. We live in an environment where the Internet and its associated services are accessible and immediate, where people and businesses can communicate with each other instantly, and where machines are equally interconnected with each other. This hyperconnectivity is deeply redefining relationships between individuals, consumers and enterprises, and citizens and governments; it is introducing new opportunities but also new challenges and risks in terms of individual rights and privacy, security, cybercrime, the flow of personal data, and access to information. As a result, our economies and societies will undergo fundamental transformations. Mastering and leveraging these transformations to maximize the positive impacts and increase resilience against the risks that ICT can bring to the economy, society, environment, and healthcare are crucial for boosting economic competitiveness and well-being. The present edition of The Global Information Technology Report (GITR) analyzes in detail the main drivers and impacts of this ICT-enabled hyperconnected world and contributes to the work of the World Economic Forum’s recently launched Hyperconnected World Initiative, which establishes a holistic means of understanding the systemic nature of change in a hyperconnected world...""
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- Applying Private Sector Best Practices in Information Technology
- Posted by Steven VanRoekel. Office of Management and Budget Blog, March 30, 2012. "One year ago, a group of private sector leaders sat down with Administration and agency officials to offer to help the government adopt management best practices. The group, the President's Management Advisory Board (PMAB), decided to spend the next year focusing on a variety of topics, including how the government buys information technology (IT). And the effort has paid off. Over the past three years, the Federal Government has done much in adopting private sector practices to triage broken IT investments, reduce the IT infrastructure footprint, and innovate with less. For example, at today’s PMAB meeting, the Department of the Interior showed that by modernizing IT infrastructure and aligning resources to improve customer service, they will realize $100 million in savings from 2016 to 2020, for a cumulative total of $500 million. To date, there have been $11 million in cost avoidance by updating the scope of projects and $2.2 million in redirection of funds due to IT Spending Reviews..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- CIOs worry they're being bypassed
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, March 22, 2012. "CIOs believe that business executives see cloud computing as a way to bypass the IT department, according to a global survey conducted by business services company BMC..."
Added: 23 March 2012;
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- Why Government IT Consolidation May Be Doomed
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, March 9, 2012. "... The number of data centers that many governments run and their low level of utilization almost cry for consolidation: benefits are clear, ranging from greater security to lower costs, from lower energy consumption to easier maintenance, and more. We all know that there are a number of non-technology challenges, such as fear of losing headcount, budget, authority, but all this can be managed if there is sufficiently strong executive leadership. However, there is a different, subtler risk to consolidation, and some of the other initiatives that governments themselves have set in motion amplify such risk..."
Added: 14 March 2012;
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- Governments stuck on ICT capabilities
- Government News, 24 February 2012. "Independent market analyst, Ovum has given recommendations on how to overcome challenges in developing and maintaining ICT capabilities in government. These recommendations are to include cloud services into ICT strategy, leverage and evolve with existing and trusted vendor relationships and procurement arrangements, analyse application and data portfolios and get 'hands-on' experience with cloud services..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- How smart computing can help government do more with less
- By: Ralph Chapman. IT in Canada, February 24, 2012. "... New private sector approaches to application and development management can help government departments develop and maintain complex application portfolios. Collaboration and social media techniques can effectively extend the working day by leveraging multiple resources located across time zones. This community-based collaboration environment lets larger numbers of professionals exchange ideas and solve problems more quickly when supported by open-source frameworks that place a premium on intellectual capital, expertise, trust, efficiency and results to help increase productivity and capacity..."
Added: 28 February 2012;
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- Accenture Technology Vision 2012: Emerging Technology Trends for IT Leaders
- Accenture, January 13, 2012. "Accenture publishes its technology vision annually. It is a distillation of our extensive research over the course of the previous 12 months, the experiences of our research teams and the input of our clients. In it, we outline the emerging technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs will use to position their organizations to drive growth and high performance, rather than just focusing on cost-cutting and efficiency improvements..."
Added: 9 February 2012;
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- Draft guide on ICT standards and procurement aims to reduce vendor lock-in
- ePractice.eu, 30 January 2012. Country EU Institutions; Domain eGovernment; Topic eProcurement, Infrastructure, Interoperability, Open Source, Policy. ""The appropriate use of standards will help alleviate lock-in", says a draft guideline prepared for the European Commission, on the link between ICT standardisation and public procurement. The draft text was published on 21 December 2011. According to a survey carried out in preparation for the guideline, around 40 % of public administrations report some degree of vendor lock-in. "This can prevent authorities from switching to optimal solutions and making best use of public funds." ..."
Added: 3 February 2012;
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- Guide for the procurement of standards based ICT - Elements of Good Practice: Draft - in pdf format (298kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Europe Economics, 19 December 2011. "... Procuring ICT that is based on Standards accessible to all ICT suppliers can help promote competition among suppliers responding to public sector ICT tenders, and reduce the risk of public authorities becoming excessively dependent on a single vendor for the provision of ICT products or services beyond the timeframe of the initial procurement contract, a situation otherwise known as ‘lock-in’. One of the main objectives of public procurement is to be as open as possible and to elicit bids from a good number of competitive suppliers. This nurtures competition in the private sector as contractors try to outdo each other to win government tenders. The most suitable company will be awarded the contract, leading to value for money and an improvement in the quality of goods and services provided to the members of public, and hence lead to more innovation. However, when a public authority is highly dependent on a single vendor for its ICT systems, there will be a lack of competition and value for money might not be achieved in the long term. Symptoms of possible lock in include the use of specific brand names of products in tender descriptions and requests for backward compatibility with proprietary systems, of which only a few suppliers have knowledge..."
Added: 3 February 2012;
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- Australian Government ICT expenditure, 2008-09 – 2009-10 - in pdf format (303kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Version 1.0. Department of Finance and Deregulation, 2012. "This report presents data about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use and expenditure in 2008-09 and 2009-10 by Australian Government agencies. The data has been sourced from agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 through an annual ICT benchmarking data collection exercise conducted by the Department of Finance and Deregulation (Finance). The objectives of ICT benchmarking are to measure progress in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT services in the delivery of Government programs, and inform other Whole-of-Government ICT policy initiatives. The first round of benchmarking was conducted as part of the ICT Reform Program in 2008-09, following the Review of the Australian Government's use of ICT by Sir Peter Gershon. The objective of making this data available is to inform the general community and industry about Australian Government ICT use and expenditure..."
Added: 2 February 2012;
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- 8146.0 - Household Use of Information Technology, Australia, 2010-11
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, 15 December 2011. "This release presents estimates on household and personal use of information technology in Australia. The data presented includes: access to internet, location of access, type of internet connection and purpose of using the internet. The data are presented by various demographic and geographic splits... The percentage of Australian households with access to the internet at home has continued to increase, from 64% in 2006-07 to 79% in 2010-11... There were an estimated 6.2 million households with a broadband internet connection in 2010-11. Broadband is accessed by nearly three-quarters (73%) of all households in Australia, and 92% of all households with internet access..."
Added: 19 December 2011;
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- Gartner Predictions for 2012: More Cloud, Consumerization, Loss of IT Control
- By Ann Bednarz. CIO, December 2, 2011. "Network World — IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years..."
Added: 5 December 2011;
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- Getting simple ICT shouldn't be complicated
- We love local government is a blog written by UK local government officers, 3 November 2011. "... As with all of our work, we need to trim much of our ICT functionality back to what we and its users need it to do. If we want a system to allow people to check their library books in online, let them do that and don’t then also expect them to use it to produce a graph showing the number of other people who had borrowed that book; if the system is there to deliver news updates to them then it shouldn’t also be trying to track whether or not they were sticking to their diet by counting their calories. If we keep in mind what we need ICT to do rather than getting sidetracked by all of the other things it could do, we can concentrate on making this work better than eer before. We have less time and money than ever: focussing both will result in far better systems..."
Added: 28 November 2011;
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- Game-changing technology the key to business survival
- by Sylvia Pennington. The Age, November 16, 2011. "Mobiles, social networking and cloud computing are making existing IT architecture obsolete. Organisations which fail to embrace the game-changing triumvirate of mobile, social and cloud computing technologies will struggle to compete in a fast moving, customer-centric market, according to Gartner global research head Peter Sondergaard..."
Added: 16 November 2011;
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This category last updated: 18 April 2012
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