GSA wants vendor ideas to improve communications

The General Services Administration wants ideas from vendors to improve communication and collaboration.

CSC's new cloud strategy targets government, commercial markets

Computer Sciences Corp. is seeking to establish a strong toehold in the cloud computing market with four new offerings it is bringing to market in a unified global strategy for both commercial and government clients.

Critics rap Twitter's federal plans

Twitter's search for its first Washington-based government liaison announced this week has prompted a flurry of tweets and blog posts by Gov. 2.0 community members offering advice and comments, but skeptics are mobilizing, too.

Acquisition 2.0: GSA uncovers the pitfalls and promise of crowdsourcing

Acquisition officials at the General Services Administration have found that it’s not just ethics officers who have concerns about taking the government/industry dialogue onto the Web.

Sunlight Labs creates catalog of government databases

Sunlight Labs has taken on the job of offering an open-source online database of federal, state and local governments.

How is gov 2.0 like a cowboy in an office?

FCW Cartoonist John Klossner has provided the cartoon. Your job is to write dialogue or a caption that gives it a government 2.0 theme — and that gives us a good laugh.

CGI Federal continues triage of CMS Web sites

CGI Federal Inc. will continue to upgrade Web sites for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under a five-year contract worth $73.2 million.

CSC, Google join forces on LA cloud computing project

Los Angeles is about to get a cloud thanks to a joint venture between Computer Sciences Corp. and Google Inc., which are building a cloud e-mail system to replace the existing Novell GroupWise service for the city’s municipal agencies.

Can contract info be safely published online?

The General Services Administration and federal acquisition councils are seeking advice from the public and affected businesses on how to publish federal contract text online.

Contest: Define Gov 2.0 in 140 characters or less

Government 2.0 is a phrase that many people (including journalists) like to toss around, but what the heck does it mean anyway?

Does anyone outside D.C. really care about open government?

That buzz you're hearing about open government? It's more of whisper caught up in an echo chamber. Tell us what you think about it.

Capgemini wins job fixing Nevada unemployment IT systems

Capgemini Government Solutions has won a $27.9 million contract to replace existing systems and technologies at the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation and deliver an unemployment insurance modernization solution.

Agencies create Facebook pages for Deepwater and floods

FEMA and other federal agencies are establishing Facebook pages to help with disaster responses.

Living with stovepipes

Effective executives learn to reap the benefits of stovepiped organizations while still enabling collaboration, writes blogger Steve Kelman.

Acquisition 2.0 can breathe new life into battered workforce

More online engagement with the private sector could help federal acquisition workers develop better solicitations in less time, according to one reader.

Public participation in technology assessment

Blogger Brian Robinson is intrigued by the idea of the U.S. trying the Participatory Technology Assessment, which has been a success in Europe.

Social networking fuels collaboration among NASA researchers

The NASA Earth Exchange uses social networking to enable scientists around the world to share data, software code and research results.

HHS Open Government Plan deserves a visit

HHS is creating dashboards and datasets for open government, but shouldn't those principles also apply to simple HHS Web pages?

Weighing the worth of Twitter

Given the recent news from the Library of Congress, blogger Brian Robinson wonders how Twitter rates in the worthiness spectrum of information.

Another high-level administration officials takes to the blog

National archivist David Ferriero gets credit for starting his own blog, but he ought to loosen up a little, writes blogger Brian Robinson.