A Nation of the People and IP Addresses

Copps: Broadband strategy needed

According to this commission news release, FCC Commissioner Copps has called on the United States to develop a national broadband strategy "like every other industrialized nation has done." In addition to the United State's descending broadband penetration rankings from the OECD, to which Copps refers, there is this problem.

Meet the CIO for the Internet Age

It's no secret that state civil servants are fast retiring and changing the IT landscape. So it only makes sense that a new kind of CIO might emerge.

They don't remember when "we had a mainframe environment."

Whose portal is it anyway?

Via NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Newsbriefs, here is a nice piece describing two views of Web governance: Whose government portal is it anyway?

Telework study: federal agencies slowly adopting practice

The Telework Exchange has published a new study of teleworking practices in the federal government, Telework Two-Step: Agencies Dancing Around the Issue. Among the findings according to Government Technology:

• The required telework coordinators assigned to market the practice in each agency actually spend less than 25 percent of their time on telework issues.
• But interest in telework is on the upswing and,
• "Work-life balance, fluctuating gas prices, and continuity of operations (COOP) planning are significant telework drivers. Telework coordinators highlighted that management resistance is the leading obstacle to federal telework adoption."