Posts with keyword: government

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Is Voting Secure?

Mon Oct 28 09:42:00 2024

I'm fairly certain that what I write here won't change the minds that need changing. But I feel like I need to make a statement anyway: your vote is secure.
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The Dangers of Internet Voting

Mon Aug 25 13:55:00 2014

I am serving on Lt. Governor Cox's iVote panel, which is looking at whether Internet voting might be used in Utah. I presented the following statement to the panel this morning:
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Silona Bonewald Week on IT Conversations

Tue Aug 18 07:55:00 2009

If you visit IT Conversations you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's Silona Bonewald week. Completely independently Jon Udell and I both decided to have her on our shows and scheduled her for the same week. View that as an indication of the fact that she's an interesting person. Jon talked to Silona about Citability.org, an effort to get permalinks in government documents. Scott and I talk to Silona about open banking, an effort to make banking more open and accountable. So, pop on over to IT Conversations and help us celebrate Silona Bonewald Week!
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Consolidating State Data Centers

Wed Jan 14 09:33:00 2009

Word going around is that the State of Utah is looking at possibly consolidating some data centers. In government, over the years, state agencies built data centers and ran them independently. A lot of these were really just machine rooms with not much in the way of power and air conditioning. Some were full-on Class A data centers. As State CIOs have looked for ways to save money, data center consolidation was a favorite example of how more interagency cooperation could result in tax payer saving. After all, the DNS server for Tax doesn't really care
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Double Your ID Pleasure with TSA

Tue Jul 31 15:12:00 2007

Via Jim Harper, a report on the TSA's ruling that requires some passengers to present two forms of ID. What's ironic is these are the passengers who signed up for the Registered Traveler program, designed to let frequent fliers escape the inspection line. The TSA is requiring that these registered travelers present a government issued ID (like any other traveler) in addition to their RT card. Beginning last fall, TSA suddenly required that RT members using the RT line show a picture ID and their RT card right before entering the line. These are the same RT cards that,
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Digital Identity in BC Government

Tue Sep 12 16:20:00 2006

Dave Nikolesjsin, CIO, Prov. of British Columbia(click to enlarge) Dave Nikolesjsin is the CIO for the Prov. of British Columbia. No less an authority on identity than Dick Hardt has told me that I really had to see what they were doing in identity. So, when I saw that Dave as speaking at DIDW, I knew that was one session I had to attend. Serendipitously, I sat with Dave at breakfast and got a chance to get acquainted. The title of Dave's talk is "Citizen-Centric Identity." He shows a picture with a citizen, in this case a little girl from
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Tom Adelstein and Government IT

Fri Mar 31 19:57:00 2006

This brings back some very unpleasant memories: I would characterize the people involved in these type of organizations as nasty bureaucrats. I have never met one of them who cared about the people they serve. The ones I have met only care about their careers. They would cut the heart out of the person in the next office in a minute. From LXer: Why I Stopped Promoting Linux in GovernmentReferenced Fri Mar 31 2006 19:56:26 GMT-0700 (MST) Read the whole thing, especially the comments. He talks about the only way to survive in government IT being to lower your
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SOA in the Public Sector

Mon Feb 13 10:05:00 2006

I'm quoted in an article in Public CIO magazine. I was interviewed for this story on the use of SOA and Web services in the government so long ago, I can hardly remember it. The article, especially the last line, makes me look less enthusiastic about SOA in the public sector than I am. I think public sector CIOs have a great opportunity to use the governance powers that they already have, in connection with relatively modest expenditures on infrastructure to build real connectivity between departmental silos.
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Tech State or State Tech?

Fri Dec 16 08:35:00 2005

John Palfrey, Executive Director of Harvard's Berkman Center, made some remarks a few days ago on the proper role of government with respect to open standards. He did so in the context of Microsoft trying to use the Massachusetts Legislature to do an end run around the Massachusetts CIO on the issue of adopting open standards. John talks about the proper role of Government in this struggle: That job is not to choose between competing technology vendors, circa 2005, in a fast-changing marketplace. The elephant in the room is the struggle between Microsoft on the one hand and IBM
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