Wednesday, March 24, 2010 experts will discuss green futures for U.S cities at Washington’s National Press Club. Carol Browner, the former administrator of EPA and current director at the Office of Energy and Climate Policy at the White House will be a keynote speaker. Other experts include Senator Amy Klobuchar, Representative Marsha Blackburn and Representative [...]

Craig Brammer will be the new deputy director for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He will be leaving his current position in Cincinnati as the project director of Aligning Forces for Quality. Aligning Forces for Quality is the “Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is planning on conducting a nationwide survey of public opinion about electronic health information exchange and the privacy and security of personal data that is shared. Little is known about people’s attitudes toward electronic health information exchange and the extent to which they are interested in [...]

Launched in an effort to bring together government leaders and Web 2.0 innovators to build “a 21st-century government,” improve transparency and efficiency, Gov 2.0 Expo has announced a selection of its key speakers, topics and themes. Held May 25-27 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., the expo aims to showcase the real-world application [...]

The Census Bureau will launch new interactive Google Maps showing initial mail participation rates from the 120 million household that last week received the 2010 Census questionnaires. The collaborative partnership with Google allows communities the ability to track how their area is responding to the once-a-decade count. The Census Bureau will provide daily updates of [...]

According to a 2008 GAO report, the government employees closest to the PCI situation, DoD program managers, generally agree that standard safeguards are needed for contractor employees participating in the acquisition process. However, most departments of the DoD already have safeguards in place against PCI, and “a number of program managers…expressed concern that adding new [...]

Today, March 22, 2010, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson made a speech at the annual Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies conference in D.C. Jackson announced the agency’s plans to develop new strategies to improve the public’s health protection against contaminated drinking water. Jackson announced EPA’s plans to “confront emerging health threats, strained budgets and increased needs [...]

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will travel to Mexico City this week as part of a delegation focused on helping the Mexican government fight drug-trafficking cartels and other security threats. “It is in our interest that our friends have greater capabilities to protect [...]

Vivek Kundra, the Federal CIO, is the backbone of data.gov.  The mission of data.gov is to “increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government” as part of Obama’s Open Government Initiative. It has been a key tool to help the public find, download and use [...]

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, met with stakeholders last Friday, March 19, to talk about immigration reform. The goal was to work together to make steps towards creating a new and improved system. Involved in the meeting were members of Congress, representatives from the faith community, law enforcement, business and labor and [...]