FCW Challenge
Six big questions for the future of Gov 2.0
Here’s your chance to showcase your talents as a writer, commentator and thought leader. Federal Computer Week is devoting an entire issue of the magazine to the contributions of our readers. The topic: The future of social media and collaboration in government.
Working with our friends at Govloop, whose 27,000 members are also being invited to participate, the editors of FCW have put six major issues up for debate. Your mission (should you choose to accept it), is to support the statement as resolved, or enter into the debate with a counter argument.
FCW and Govloop editors will select the best responses for inclusion in the June 14 issue of Federal Computer Week.
So bring it on! This is your time to show how social media can work for everyone in government.
Up for Debate: Government social networks are Towers of Babel, doomed to topple.
Social networking sites are designed to break down the silos of work and social groups and enable people to cross-pollinate ideas. But as agencies increasingly turn to building their own internal social networking platforms (Spacebook, Statebook, etc.), they’re just building bigger, better silos.
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Posted by David Rapp on May 04, 2010 at 9:27 AM8 comments
Up for Debate: The Open-Government Plan is Vaporware 2.0.
The first drafts of agencies’ open-government plans are Twinkies. You can put them on the shelf and they will last forever, but no one’s going to eat them.
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Posted by David Rapp on May 03, 2010 at 9:28 AM2 comments
Up for Debate: Acquisition 2.0 will give ethics officers the heebie-jeebies.
Using wikis and other collaboration tools for things such RFPs will invite more private-sector involvement in purchasing decisions and will create unnecessary conflicts of interest.
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Posted by David Rapp on May 02, 2010 at 9:29 AM0 comments
Up for Debate: A mandate for the cloud is wishing for pie in the sky.
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra wants all agencies to jump into the cloud, but can he put them off the plane? He doesn’t really have the incentives or sanctions he needs to make this happen.
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Posted by David Rapp on May 01, 2010 at 9:33 AM2 comments
Up for Debate: The federal workplace will never change. Telework? Fuggedaboudit!
If you take the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) directive to its logical conclusion, every government employee should be able to work from anywhere, including home, but also the road. But agency managers will never give up their need for command and control.
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Posted by David Rapp on Apr 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM20 comments
Up for Debate: This is a job for McGruff the Crime Dog.
Federal employees are unknowingly placing their agencies at risk for cyberattack by not taking their own personal security measures seriously. The government should launch a new PR campaign to raise awareness and protect itself, its citizens and the economy from cyber warfare.
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Posted by David Rapp on Apr 29, 2010 at 1:29 PM6 comments