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NewsWhite House releases draft authenticated Internet identity plan
The White House revealed June 25 a draft strategy for creating a voluntarily authenticated online identity for Internet users and organizations. The "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in... Read more...
White House preparing national Internet identity authentication plan
By Molly Bernhart Walker and David Perera The White House plans to reveal June 25 a strategy for verifying the online identity of Internet users, said cyber czar Howard Schmidt, speaking June 22... Read more...
Sunstein: E-dockets should be better
Members of the public attempting to find the same proposed regulation docket on various federal websites can't always do so due to lack of a consistent naming conventions and search criteria,... Read more...
Rep. Issa presses White House on Gmail
The senior Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says he's troubled by a White House official's use of Gmail to communicate with government colleagues and lobbyists... Read more...
White House looks to industry for IT management advice
The White House is building a database of private sector CEOs on whom it plans to call for advice when facing management challenges, states a White House report. The names were culled from a forum on... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: White House: A platform for contests
The White House is taking competitions to a new level. It's developing a web-based platform to manage contests that federal agencies launch to further their missions. The idea is to encourage federal... Read more...
White House plans review of all IT projects
Listen up, everyone. The boss is watching and reviewing every one of your federal information technology projects. Federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra disclosed last week that the White... Read more...
Next up: Kundra's cybersecurity dashboard
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is not standing still with the launch of the IT dashboard that shows where money is being spent on government IT. Instead, he's moving quickly toward cybersecurity, and plans... Read more...
DoD joins the open-source brigade
The Department of Defense is putting its considerable clout behind open-source software. In a recent memo to top military officials, deputy CIO David Wennergren outlined the importance of open-source... Read more...
White House embraces open source
The White House joined the rest of the online world this week in embracing open-source software. It's using open-source software called Drupal to manage and publish its content from the 2-year-old... Read more...
| Press ReleasesFirst Lady Michelle Obama Hosts First Live Web Chat with AOL HealthMrs. Obama to Talk Directly to American Moms as a Part of Her “Let’s Move!” Initiative to End the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AOL: What:AOL Health will conduct a live web chat Read more >> First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts First Live Web Chat with AOL HealthMrs. Obama to Talk Directly to American Moms as a Part of Her “Let’s Move!” Initiative to End the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AOL: What:AOL Health will conduct a live web chat Read more >> |
