In order to provide access to news updates and other agency information on mobile devices, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives created the ATF App. Keep reading →
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When Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, looks at the challenge of managing mobile technology, he sees more than the task of moving data securely to the tablets and smartphones used by the department’s nearly 280,000 doctors and employees.
Sounding more like a brand manager than a CIO, Baker said that the bigger challenge is managing the department’s mobile applications – and more specifically, the experience veterans and employees encounter when they use them. Keep reading →
With federal agencies and departments developing a myriad of mobile applications for citizens, and agency employees, the government should be moving to develop application tools that are platform agnostic and have multiple uses, according to Dr. Rick Holgate, who played a leading role in developing the mobility recommendations in the government’s new digital strategy.
The new digital government strategy, released May 23 by the Office of Management and Budget, accompanied by a memorandum from the White House, is designed to give agencies a roadmap on how to embrace and optimize use of digital technology. It combines earlier efforts on the government’s original mobility strategy and a lesser-known web reform strategy, said Holgate, CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Keep reading →
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This is one in a regular series on the latest innovation in mobile apps and mobile technology in the federal government. Keep reading →
A popular Web-based collaboration application developed for the Defense Department is now being made available for mobile devices, according to a report from Government Computer News.
Defense Connect Online, an application developed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, currently allows users to host and attend Web meetings, and provides unified communications tools that lets individuals know who among their peers is available on the network. It also supports online chats. Keep reading →
The new digital government strategy released Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget covers a wide range of initiatives that go beyond what Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel initially proposed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, during which he declared that 2012 would be the year of mobility in government.
In the flurry of releases that accompanied this morning’s announcement of the new digital strategy was VanRoekel’s own take on the importance and role of mobile technology in government. Keep reading →
Technology will allow seeing snail mail from far away.
The U.S. Postal Service has been busy pursuing innovative ideas and new technology to trim its growing debt, streamline unneeded services and stay relevant to today’s consumers. Keep reading →
This is one in a regular series on the latest innovation in mobile apps and mobile technology in the federal government.
From Smokey Bear to “mobile hogs,” the Department of Agriculture is moving at breakneck speed to integrate mobile apps into every aspect of the far-flung and multi-dimensional department. Keep reading →
Barbara Fast was among those on a CGI mobile securty panel at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. on February 16, 2012.
COMMENTARY: Cybersecurity in the mobile age is everyone’s responsibility, requiring strong partnership among businesses, governments and citizens. We are living in an information age that has changed the way we conduct business and share information. Keep reading →