The Treasury Board Secretariat is pleased to announce that Aaron Snow will be joining the organization as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) in early April. As CEO of CDS, he will be responsible for fundamentally improving federal digital service delivery across the Government of Canada, with partner departments.
Read More“The résumé is such a weird tool,” said Jason Shen, founder of Headlight, a performance hiring platform developer based in New York. “It’s a biographical sketch, and the information is hard to verify.”
Read MoreDavid Eaves, a lecturer in public policy, met Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, and was recruited to give tech training to new Presidential Innovation Fellows and Code for America fellows.
Read MoreWhile Federal CIO Suzette Kent is brand new to government, many of the federal officials picked for the board have been highlighted as modernization leaders or have positions located at the nexus of federal technology, modernization and procurement, such as Charles Worthington, CTO for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Read MoreNick Sinai connected the co-founders with Jeff Meisel, Chief Marketing Officer of the Census Bureau, and they began crafting the fellowship as a fully funded model that would provide housing, travel, and stipends, as well as enrichment activities and challenging projects for a student cohort.
Read MoreDenice Ross, a former Presidential Innovation Fellow who is now a Public Interest Technology Fellow at the nonprofit New America, said the current danger surrounding open data is "that it's not an active priority."
Read MoreIn this quick, insightful talk about human potential, Jason Shen shares some new thinking on how job seekers can make themselves more attractive -- and why employers should look for ability over credentials.
Read More"The idea is to promote implementations of an HL7 genomics platform to provide project support, certification, expertise, and validation tools to help its members to navigate, implement, and to collaborate on challenges of genomic integration," Gil Alterovitz said.
Read MoreCharles Worthington said VA’s biggest technological issue right now is communicating with other organizations in a standard way. The department is making a big push to improve interoperability of its health records.
Read MoreIn a massive user-centered investigation, led by former U.S. Digital Service designer Mollie Ruskin, the Foundation found that Congress really does have a voicemail problem. And the organization decided to do something about it.
Read MoreInstead of forcing cities to reinvent the wheel with every new project, federal agencies can bring them to the table to share what works and what doesn’t work in areas like cybersecurity and privacy, said Sokwoo Rhee, the associate director of the cyber-physical program at the National Institute for Standards and Technology.
Read MoreThis particular initiative appears to be new to the agency, but it is not EPA’s first brush with federal IT innovation forces. Past members of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program, which partners with agencies to place fellows, have served at the EPA.
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