Today’s technology-based learning environment can be complex. How are districts addressing the move to digital learning environments? What policy changes are underway? What do all of these changes mean for schools struggling with tight budgets?Connecting the Dots allows attendees to learn from each other and further investigate some of the hot technology issues in education. This event will be offered free to the education community and...

This intensive, free one-day program, produced by Digital Government Institute and hosted by Cisco, will include detailed discussions about compelling topics facing today’s technology and program management professionals in governmental and educational organizations. The four conference tracks will review tools and techniques for effective: Mobile / Collaboration Secure Experience Unified Data Center and the Cloud Cutting the Cost of Gov...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, from documents to e-mails to instant messaging and even Twitter – the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. And agencies are constantly challenged with managing new forms of Electronical...

Over the past year, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future security of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issue that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services. On...

Recent White House and National Archives and Records Administration memorandums have directed Agencies to reform records management practices by creating a framework that will provide a foundation for leveraging information to improve agency performance and reduce unnecessary costs and burdens. Through these mandates, agencies must update current plans for improving records management programs, paying particular attention to electronic records...

You are invited to join us for a 60-minutes discussion about how to improve citizen services while reducing costs with innovative technologies. We’ll explore best practices government organizations are using today, clearly defined metrics and key performance indicators agencies can quickly deploy solutions that can have a significant positive impact on the citizen engagement process. We will look at some of the low cost effective and inn...

Big data is a new term being used to describe the explosive growth of datasets as well as the new architectures that are evolving to address the storage, management and analytic functions. As defense and intelligence agencies seek to use the increasing amount of available data to make mission-critical decisions on the battlefield, there is heavy emphasis on smart data and imagery collection, capture, storage and analysis to drive real-time int...

There are plenty of changes coming in the way the federal government operates and manages technology. And it’s always important to keep up to date with new developments with both government and the private sector. The Administration has challenged all agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement as part of its mandate for more open and transparent government operations. And a recent Executive Order directs federal age...

When Nate Rushfinn, Certified Enterprise Architect with CA Technologies’ Public Sector, presented “A Cloud Model That Works for the Federal Government” at the 2011 Digital Government Institute Cloud-Enabled Government Conference & Expo, attendees wanted more. Session attendees called the presentation “fantastic” and said Rushfinn gave an "excellent presentation about guidelines for going to cloud”. Sever...