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The 36th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference Issues Call for Proposals
The Section on Public Administration Education (SPAE) is hosting the 36th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference (TPAC) on June 3-5, 2013, in San Francisco’s Japantown. Conference site co-hosts are…
Strengthening Accountability and Public Confidence with Transparency Websites
According to Transparency International, an international anti-corruption organization headquartered in Berlin, the public sectors of most of the world’s countries are still plagued by high levels of perceived corruption. Based…
Why Does Business Not Trust IT? (2)
Who is at fault? In all honesty it is the mostly the business or buyer. Of course it is an IT perspective. What did you think I was going to…
Training and Development in the Great Recession
Succession planning is often intertwined with the quest to improve personnel. Many organizations report an increasing turnover rate as the Baby Boomer generation retires. This will create a vacuum in…
Innovation and What It Means
I consider innovation to be any technology including Information Technology systems that can be implemented to save time, create efficiency and return a positive return on investment (ROI) to the…
The Current State of Defense Contracting
The contract management process continues to be an increasingly important function in the federal government, and specifically in the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD, which is the federal government’s…
Why Does Business Not Trust IT?
I don’t know how to split an atom. I am also not a surgeon. But as a business process and information technology specialist, I can write instructions and develop some…
The New Old(er) US: Are you ready for tech savvy older adults?
Can we talk about aging? Yes, we have to. Let’s start by admitting that we are all aging. According to the 2010 census, more than thirteen percent of us in…
Restoring Trust in Government Matters
Despite heightened rhetoric about engaging citizens, improving customer satisfaction and restoring public trust in government, little significant success in doing so is evident today especially when we focus on the…
Gun Control for Both Sides of the Aisle
The newest wave of school shootings has caused an increased momentum within the public to seek new gun control measures. The measures must be tempered with consideration for both sides.…
Promoting Social Equity by Building Transparency into State Budgeting Processes
State budgets are extremely complex and important social equity issues are present in many budgets. Probably the largest and best known social equity issue concerns state payments to local school…
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