| The move to scrap the FCC's rules for ISPs leaves the industry without any federal oversight and puts internet privacy at risk. Read More ▶ |
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| | | White Paper: Smarsh State, federal, and local government agencies need to keep important records (including digital communications) for a long time, to stay in compliance with public records laws, open meeting, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and various state sunshine laws. If an agency has email, social media, web and other digital communications related to business activities, records must be available to anyone who asks for them. Read More ▶ | | Many government agencies have already moved basic applications and services to the cloud, but when it comes to the next wave, CIOs must take a hard look at their systems and negotiate flexible contracts with vendors. Read More ▶ |
| | Real politics and law making isn’t riveting nor easy to follow. Long debates and votes scheduled at varying times make government hard to follow. How can the public stay abreast of legislation on issues that matter to them with hundreds of hearings at thousands of locations? New technologies from Open Media Project make it possible for even small city councils to record and share their deliberations. Sessions are recorded and shared online though free tools such as YouTube. Google Transcript uses speech recognition technology to automatically create a transcript of the what is said in the recording. Captions are added to the videos along with time code information to synchronize the caption timing with the video. Read More ▶ |
| | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote May 18 to kick off a proceeding to "reverse the mistake" of the agency's 2-year-old net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said. Read More ▶ |
| | | | The U.S. Air Force is seeking vetted hackers to probe its public Web sites while a top Pentagon official is considering a similar program to test sensor networks used for HVAC and other physical systems. Read More ▶ |
| | A U.S. Federal Communications Commission proposal to kill the regulatory foundation for the agency's own 2015 net neutrality rules nevertheless asks for public comment on whether it should "keep, modify, or eliminate" basic protections. Read More ▶ |
| | Most county and municipal governments don't have formal information governance programs, but adoption of IG would reduce risks, lower costs and vastly improve quality of services in these organizations. Read More ▶ |
| | White Paper: Smarsh Public sector organizations have a lot to offer the communities they serve through social media. Updates on your website or items on your city council meeting agenda can now foster real-time interaction with your constituents. Read More ▶ | CIO Insider | Editor's Picks |
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