Author Archive

Dan Tynan

Digital Government

Maps: the new application interface

Agencies are adding GIS layers to existing programs to improve access to information.

Cybersecurity

PIV cards: the insider threat

With HSPD-12 requirements kicking in soon, how will your agency prevent ID card theft?

Infrastructure

IPv6 on the dotted line

The time is right for RFPs to address IPv6; here's what you need for the transition.

Infrastructure

Inside the project: Web conferencing

The Hawaii State Civil Defense Department needed a more efficient way of coordinating responses from multiple government agencies during emergencies, so it could offer more timely, accurate information to the public and the media.

Infrastructure

In the eye of the storm

For 45 consecutive days last spring, the islands of Hawaii were deluged with rain. Roads flooded, beaches washed away and seven citizens died when a dam burst on the island of Kauai. For Ray Lovell, public information officer for the state's department of civil defense, the word busy doesn't begin to describe that period.

Cybersecurity

You are who you are

Identity management systems can help agencies meet security mandates

Infrastructure

Arizona hears the call of IP telephony

Several agencies move to a converged IP network and see immediate benefits.

Infrastructure

Federal-state e-authentication project pays off

When employees for the City of Chicago file reports on the discharge of wastewater into public waterways, they fill out an online form and press a few keys.