Microsoft has turned its headquarters campus into a single wireless hot spot, giving workers in scores of buildings and aboard a shuttle bus a steady Web link to test capabilities of this approach.   The potential for governments to connect...

Integrating the various silos across government is something every government technologist deals with at one time or another.  Agencies throughout Chaoyang District government have long recognized the value of deploying IT solutions to improve the...

One of the easiest ways to improve government performance to to improve the quality of tools you employees have to do their jobs. It is very common for government workers to loose productive work time switching between applications to get their jobs done...

Unleashing the power of all the data governments have collected over the years is one of the keys to better decision making.  The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) plans, maintains, and improves the highway, rail, maritime, public transportation...

In February 2009, the US Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to; Create new jobs and save existing ones, spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth, and foster unprecedented levels of accountability and...

The City of Plano in an excellent example where a government recognized how the  right technology could dramatically improve productivity. They wanted to enhance its technology service delivery while reducing its total cost of ownership. They quickly...

The Hungarian Water Resource Service (HWRS) is a great example of how implementing a communications system can improve service and save money at the same time. Headquarter Vízimentők Magyarországi Szakszolgálata) is a public sector...

This purpose of this post is to provide a comprehensive set of links focused on Gov 2.0 tools, technologies and solutions. It was created as a set of summary links from a WPC 2010 session but I plan to maintain it as a permanent source of information...

An excellent example of how the Cloud changes everything is M@ilPost . It is the service of the Tunisian Post that gives every citizen a secure personal email linked to their physical address. Much more than an e-mail service, M@ilPost is an innovative...

Eye on Earth is a two-way communication platform on the environment which brings together scientific information with feedback and observations of millions of ordinary people. It is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and the European Environment...

If you are looking for a model of how to drive innovation in your community check out Project Project Nimbus . It is an initiative that hopes to solve innovators’ problem of finding data sets and services by offering a central place for authoritative...

The City of Brampton in Ontario, Canada, created this public facing interactive map with Visual Fusion by IDV Solutions and Microsoft SharePoint. It pulls together dozens of data sources into a single view, all artfully styled for maximum communication...

Microsoft rolled out Gov2Social, a Web site where visitors can find state and local government officials using social media. IT was built using Microsoft’s PaaS offering Windows Azure . This is a great example of how multiple governments can use the same...

The Brookings Institution issued a report today titled “ Saving Money Through Cloud Computing” by Darrell M. West where he outlines how government agencies can expect between 25 and 50 percent savings in moving to the cloud. He estimates the number federal...

We are starting to see some great examples of what you can do with the power of Microsoft's clould. The City of Miami, even when limited by a tight budget, looked for ways to improve the services it offers citizens. The city wanted to develop an online...

Everybody is talking about clouds these days but really the choice to move to the cloud is not an all-or-nothing proposition. With different types of cloud offerings, you have flexible options about which services to obtain in the cloud and which to keep...

In the last two months the State of Michigan has made a couple of exciting moves to help rebuild their economy, both involving technology. In January, Lieutenant Governor John D. Cherry, Jr. announced that Michigan will join forces with Microsoft in an...