We welcomed Gavin Newsom to TechLeader.TV yesterday before a live audience of state program and technology officials, our sponsors and a few other guests, plus over 1,600 viewers watching the show’s online Webcast, setting a new record for viewership on TLTV. The Lt. Governor as […]
Lt. Governor Doesn’t Disappoint: Technology, Culture, Politics, Transparency, Open Data, Energizing State Bureaucracy, High Speed Rail and More…
Big Data Takes Center Stage In Sacramento This Month
Big Data events are scheduled for Jan 21-23 in Sacramento reports Techwire. Should be interesting. The greatest barrier to date in big data related initiatives, especially in the State of California, has been a cultural one, i.e., government program and IT leaderships’ reluctance toward transparency, avoiding […]
Flynn Testifies at Little Hoover Commission on Governor’s Re-Org Plan; Calls it the Looming Threat to State IT Investment
Your TechLeader.TV host held nothing back as he testified on April 24, 2012 before the Little Hoover Commission, California’s “good Government”, independent state oversight agency that was created a half century ago. The Commission’s mission is to investigate state government operations and – through reports, […]
Congress to restore eGov funding for open government and transparency programs, doubtful if California will
According to Federal Computer Week, four of former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s major initiatives – Data.gov, Federal IT Dashboard, Challenge.gov and Performance.gov will survive earlier Congressional attempts to cancel them. Obviously, this is a major victory for all of us who are transparency advocates as […]