Checking in from ACT/IAC’s MOC

Last April, President Obama expressed his desire to create a more efficient, transparent and creative government. From this declaration comes one of his guiding technology principles, that of “restoring a culture of accountability through openness and transparency of government operations and information.”  I couldn’t help but think of each challenge as we wrap up another Management of Change conference in Philadelphia.

Billed by ACT/IAC as a catalyst for collaboration across the government IT community, a few take-aways from the conference:

–  In terms of inter- and intra-governmental collaboration, we need to move beyond simple participation and converge on events… and on solutions.

– Citizen engagement is this year’s catchphrase; a shorter way of saying “get the right information to the right people at the right time.”

– More often than not, the real barrier to collaboration is cultural, not technical.

Personally, it was interesting to hear various perspectives on successful public/private sector partnerships and meet folks from Interior, State and GSA.  Now, if you didn’t make it to this year’s event, my colleague Maria Lee has been tweeting throughout the conference under @coolgov (*FYI: she helped shape some of the panels as committee co-chair for Applied Innovation).  Take a read through her tweets, mine and various others — e.g. govloop’s Steve Ressler, GSA’s Mary Davie — for more on-the-ground insight into the various panel presentations and keynote speeches.  You can find them by searching #moc10 on Twitter. And if you made it to Philly  for the conference and have thoughts/key takeaways you’d like to share, please feel free to leave us a comment below.


Posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 10:11 am and is filed under News.

By: Computech

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Spectrum Inventory Management

As we gear up for next month’s spectrum management conference in Brussels, Kris Shields, Larry Fitzpatrick and I put our heads together to ID potential new features for CAP.  Brought to our attention by members of our awesome auction team, here’s a hint: think GIS.  We’ve also spent time talking with various government leaders at the FCC, Industry Canada, NTIA and COFETEL about a range of technology implications specific to spectrum management.  Cue the obligatory frequency allocation map…

In today’s world of spectrum management, a great deal of time + talk focuses on this valuable commodity in the context of:

  • – Who uses it?
  • – What is the demand?
  • – How can a regulator realistically cope with that demand?



While many academicians like to explore key policy issues related to current + future spectrum usage, we spend our time creating + implementing the tools, systems and applications to manage a country’s spectrum inventory.  Now, as the problems + conditions faced by regulators become more commonly shared (e.g. inefficient allocation of spectrum in the past now limits available supply for developing technologies), we are amping up our turnkey spectrum inventory database solution.

Interested to learn more about what we’re working on pre-Brussels?  Make sure to bookmark Concomitantly, as we’ll be sharing more info in the coming days and weeks leading up to our trip.  Can’t wait until late June?  Drop either Kris or me a line + we will fill you in on all our spectrum management activity.


Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 2:55 pm and is filed under News, Online Auctions.

By: Computech

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