Tag: government
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“a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government”
The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has balloonedby 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans to hand over sensitive governmental functions to AI. Yes, but: While…
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AI chatbots at the municipal level
Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging of AI stuff that you could sell to thousands of places. It probably also exposes the redundancy and waste on the US Federalist system. E.g., does every county and city need different bulk trash pickup…
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2025 Sees Inflection Point for Government: A Shift to Private Cloud – “more than 70 percent of government IT leaders are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private cloud and nearly 50 percent say they have already begun that repatriation process.”
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Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA – Fast Company – It’s always too many meetings: ‘But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might. I would say the culture shock is…
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Public sector still hanging on to private cloud • The Register – ”While 80 percent of decision-makers in government bodies report using a hybrid cloud arrangement, 36 percent said their organization still operates an internal private cloud as their primary platform.” // You have to image that, now, this number will sustain and go higher…
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Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase – “Still, it’s interesting to think about how this should be done. I wonder if they could run the new system in a sandbox for a year, feeding it all the same inputs, and see whether it generates the same outputs.” // This feels like the kind of advantage…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies – That should get a lot of enterprise CISO’s to move in allowing AI in their orgs. // ”Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the…
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How to tell if you’re doing agile wrong
I really liked my co-worker Paul Kelly’s post on this topic, plus some anti-patterns. So I made the video above! You may recall him from a discussion with Cora and me a few months back as well. Even if you don’t deign to watch my silly shit above, you should check out his post. Relative…
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What the Government Email Account Hack Says About the Future of Cybersecurity – Always be securing all the things.
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Deploying the Swift Method to Modernize a Singapore Government Legacy System – Good description of what it feels like to be stuck in the legacy trap: “The [Singapore] government agency in this case study faced a similar issue with a legacy system that supported critical business processes, integrated with other business-critical applications, and was developed…
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🗂 Link: Rich countries must start planning for a cashless future
These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks’ monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money. Rather than letting a few credit-card firms have a stranglehold on the electronic pipes for digital payments, as America may yet allow, governments must ensure the payments plumbing…
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Link: Police wasted €400,000 on ‘redundant’ emergency app: report
Due to delays and setbacks, the deadline to launch the app in the spring of 2017 was never reached. Construction of the app only started in February 2018. In that period the current Minister of Justice and Security, Ferdinand Grapperhaus, suddenly announced that – contrary to all previous decisions – he is giving priority to…
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🗂 Why so many people who need the government hate it
> I’ve come to the conclusion that relationships are more important. And I think organizations need to be making these things much more clear to people in their everyday lives. I also think that, as a citizenry, we need to rethink how we talk about our lives and the role that government has had in…
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🗂 What’s wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?
> The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises the stakes, too: The next generation of wireless technology is expected to fuel even more connectivity in the “internet of things,” linking smart cars, smart homes and smart cities together. Billions of devices will be involved, all communicating with…
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🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services
Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with data-driven analysis influencing management and development decisions, using qualitative and quantitative data to determine user goals, needs and behaviors, and continually test the website or digital service to ensure that user needs are addressed.” www.nextgov.com/it-modern…
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Link: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences
16 percent of respondents rate their digital experience offering in the top 25 percent. 26 percent rated digital banking experiences as in the bottom half of digital experiences. 49 percent rated digital government experiences in the bottom half. Original source: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences
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Link: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition
“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.” Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’…
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Link: Lessons from the UK Government’s Digital Transformation Journey
It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things build up and often disconnect from the reasons they were put in place. Things are cited as “rules” which are really just norms. We had to get really good at working out the difference, and on pushing back on…
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Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris
Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them…. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed,…
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Link: Project vs. product management, in government
Good discussion of doing product management instead of project management. Also, discussion of user metrics to track design and usability: “Defining success metrics helps you focus on what’s important in your product and how well it solves the problems you’ve identified. Defining key steps the user must take is also important in order to shine…
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