Fedscoop Radio

HUD launches fair housing app

FedScoop — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:36 +0000

John Trasvini, assistant secretary fair housing and equal opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, discusses the agency’s new Housing Discrimination Complaint Application.

National Day of Civic Hacking

FedScoop — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:44:14 +0000

NASA’s Open Innovation team members Ali Llewellyn and Nick Skytland discuss the National Day of Civic Hacking, a weekend-long event, schedule for June 1-2, 2013, that will be held in cities across the United States.

The event aims to bring together citizens, software developers and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country.

Innovation and the National Archives with NARA Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright

FedScoop — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:30:40 +0000

National Archives and Records Administration Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright discusses her new role, ideas around creating an internal “Innovation Hub,” digitization, how public access has evolved over the years and brainstorms future projects.

Wright previously served as the agency’s first chief digital access strategist where she led the launch of many of the NARA’s social media platforms, as well as the crowdsourcing project, the Citizen Archivist Dashboard.

NASCIO 2013 federal advocacy priorities

FedScoop — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:00:04 +0000

National Association of State Chief Information Officers Director of Government Affairs Mitch Herckis discusses the organization’s advocacy priorities for 2013.

Herckis shares NASCIO’s agenda on how the federal government and Congress can help states progress on key technology issues, what hinders reform, state-federal government collaboration on cybersecurity and the public safety broadband network.

Social media in the public sector

FedScoop — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:00:31 +0000

Ines Mergel, assistant professor of public administration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, and Bill Greeves, chief information officer for Wake County, N.C, discuss the recently-published ‘Social Media in the Public Sector‘ that includes a companion field guide.

Mergel and Greeves discuss when and how government should leverage social media, social media policy and the role it plays in open government.

Microsoft’s Solms discusses JELA with DOD

FedScoop — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:30:51 +0000

Tim Solms, general manager of Microsoft’s Department of Defense business, discusses the massive Joint Enterprise License Agreement the company just signed with the Pentagon.

On the forefront of cyber education

FedScoop — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:00:44 +0000

Kristopher Cox, chief information security officer, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, was named a Symantec 2012 Cyber Awards winner. Cox sat down with FedScoop Radio to discuss the award and cybersecurity education.

Cybersecurity at USPS

FedScoop — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:01 +0000

Rickey T. Branning, manager of information system security for the computer incident response team at the U.S. Postal Service, was recently named a Symantec 2012 Cyber Awards winner. Cox sat down with FedScoop Radio to talk about the award and cybersecurity at USPS.

‘Open cybersecurity’ and the role of open source software in security

FedScoop — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:11:45 +0000

Josh Davis discusses open cybersecurity, the work of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Open Security Technology program, open source in government and the upcoming 2012 Open Cybersecurity Summit.

Davis is a principal investigator for DHS HOST anda research scientist and division head of Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Cyber Lab. He is also the co-founder of the the military open source community MIL-OSS.

Agile data infrastructure in government

FedScoop — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:32:33 +0000

Mark Weber, senior vice president and general manager of NetApp U.S. Public Sector, joins FedScoop Radio to talk about agile data infrastructure and its benefits to the federal government.