eWeek.com Politicians are happily claiming affiliation with technology as a way to say both that they’re hip and they can fundraise That’s an acceptance that’s going to echo through Congress very quickly and cross party lines. Politicians who see their business—politics—shifting its focus to smaller, state-level organizations (and the Internet-driven fundraising machines that can work [...]

XML.com Taxonomies have long played a central role in both medical and library science for the classification of medical terms and books. Recently, the U.S. federal government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (DRM). The FEA DRM specifies three abstract layers of an organization’s information: business [...]

TechnologyReview.com The intelligence reform bill evaded real reform It is well within our power to create a flatter, more distributed knowledge management system that makes all data within the government available to users in real time regardless of agency affiliation, simply based on privileges assigned to them. But we don’t have it yet. Nonetheless, the [...]