Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News and Washington Technology have joined forces again to take a look at one topic from three perspectives. This time, we focus on collaboration. FCW is looking at what agencies are using Web 2.0 tools to share information and how they use them. GCN explains how agencies are making use of new software and hardware tools to bring text, voice and video collaboration down to the laptop level. And Washington Technology examines how contractors bulk up their collaboration skills as their customers look for more ways to work together and share information.
The Collaboration Project, led by the National Academy of Public Administration,
looks to be a center of excellence focused on the Web 2.0 world and how
these tools can help government
Budget managers do their number crunching in a collegial online workplace
Watch
1105 Government Information Group Research Director Maxine Lunn discuss
results from surveys she conducted to gauge the use of collaboration
tools among federal agencies.
Duration: 1:33 Mins
To see the surveys' results for yourself, click the links to the PowerPoint presentations.
Collaboration efforts create fresh market for tech companies
FCW Forum
Is government procurement YouTube-ready?
The District of Columbia pilots the use of wikis and YouTube to improve
the procurement process. Should federal agencies follow suit?
Take the poll
Which Web 2.0 tools does your agency use to share information?
There are less than six months to go until agencies need to implement the
new IP on their networks, but NIST only recently issued a final draft profile
of the conformance testing process vendors must go through.
Previous poll results
How has information sharing within
and across agencies improved since the 2001 attacks?