Architecture of my life: continued

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Continuing down the life architecture path (photo credit: .:Adry:.)My earlier post Architecture of my life generated a lot of interest, which was encouraging, but it also stressed me to follow up with updates as many readers asked for that.  …

Roadmap for Digital Government: Information Centricity — Active Information

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Last week on Active Information, I wrote about the new Roadmap for Digital Government.

The drivers of the roadmap are a combination of technology advances cloud, mobile, collaboration, the need for agencies to carryout their missions at a lower cost and higher level of service, and a directive from the President:

“I want us to ask ourselves every day, how are we using technology to make a real difference in peoples lives”.

I was pleased to see the upfront emphasis on taking a thinking, rather than code, mindset:

“Building for the future requires us to think beyond programmatic lines. To keep up with the pace of change in technology, we need to securely architect our systems for interoperability and openness from conception.”

In my post, I focus on the Information-Centricity aspect, and offer some tips for success.

Read: Keys to “Treating all Content as Data” — Roadmap … – Input Output.
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That volcano’s gettin’ kinda busy…

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That’s the view from my verandah here in Antigua Guatemala this morning: Volcan de Fuego has been kinda busy of late. (Click on the picture for a larger-size view.) To give an idea of scale, that’s on a 4x zoom on a wide-angle camera, so about the same as the perceived naked-eye view. It’s perhaps […]

You Call That Innovating?

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Last week I was on a panel discussing innovation trends in technology for the board of directors of an information technology intensive company. They don’t make technology, but their primary product is a digital based service. One of the panel members and I had a lively discussion about the meaning of innovation. We were in […]

Measure What Really Matters

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I ran across a very interesting op-ed by Tim Jackson on productivity today in the New York Times. The gist of his well-articulated argument is that due to our relentless drive for increased output, certain professions and their attendant tasks…