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US CIO Uses Electronics Show To Announce New Federal Mobility Plans

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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel today announced a new set of initiatives to spur broader adoption of mobile technology for the federal government, calling 2012 “the year of mobile government.”

Speaking at a government conference held at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, VanRoekel described a new 2012 “Roadmap for Federal Mobility” that would put an emphasis on governance, sharing technologies wherever possible, and collaborating with the private sector to accelerate adoption. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM

SBA Contest Yields Mobile Apps To Aid Small Businesses

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Riding what appears to be a growing groundswell of federal government innovation competitions, the Small Business Administration has awarded a first-place prize of $5,000 to a Silicon Valley software developer for a smartphone or tablet application that lets users quickly find loans, grants, permits and other useful resources for small businesses.

The winner of SBA’s “Apps for Entrepreneurs Challenge,” Somesh Kumar, is the founder of Mobispectra Technologies LLC, a Fremont, Calif., firm that creates applications for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. The company’s aim is “to embrace innovation and take challenges to solve human problems with simplest technology,” according to its Web site. (The winning SBA app can be downloaded at “SBA Gems” at entrepreneurs.challenge.gov/submissions/5458. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 23, 2011 at 12:25 PM

GSA Initiates New Telework Policy; Lessons In Hoteling and Hot Desking

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The General Services Administration instituted a new governmentwide telework policy Monday that essentially flips the managerial presumption that employees cannot telecommute to one that presumes they can. It also sets a new benchmark in detailing the government’s mobility and telework guidelines for federal employees and supervisors.

“Work is what we do, not where we are,” the GSA policy states, and a phrase that GSA Administrator Martha Johnson often repeats in her public remarks. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM

Going Mobile: Top Government Agencies For Telework

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The battle between the public and private sectors to attract top talent often boils down to workplace intangibles such as work/life balance. And few efforts to improve that balance have attracted more attention within the federal government than telework.

Permitting more federal employees to skip the commute and work from home isn’t just an act of good will to attract and retain employees. It also boils down to smart economics. The General Services Administration estimates that if federal workers telecommuted at least one day per week, federal agencies could increase productivity by more than $2.3 billion annually. Agencies could also save potentially billions more on office space, electricity and supplies. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 5, 2011 at 7:58 AM

GSA Loses Network Services Leader

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While everyone is replaceable, experts agree the GSA has some digging to do in order to find a good one for Karl Krumbholz.

Now that the General Services Administration is losing its leading man of network services programs, agency officials are charged with finding someone to lead the programs while also fitting into the changing telecommunications world, according to a Federal Computer Week article. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 8, 2011 at 2:00 PM
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