Basically an apps contest is a publicity event that focuses talent and energy to support a worthy technical cause.
The principal resources needed are talent, time and coolness.
Talent: the principal forms of talent are participants, evangelists and mentors
Mentors are typically mature…In my interim role as the state Chief Information Security Officer, I wanted to touch base on our efforts to improve and maintain our cybersecurity posture.
The Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) is an essential division within WaTech and provides critical enterprise security services to the state and our agency partners. However, like any enterprise service WaTech provides the state, OCS…
News reports indicate threat actors are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak in new phishing email campaigns.
Threat actors are using public fear to increase the likelihood that users will click on a link or open an attachment.
In one campaign, the phishing email reportedly impersonates the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning of new infections and…
This fall a number of agencies have developed and published open data plans. It's been a great period for open data all around Olympia, and we're looking forward to even better as we go from planning to doing in the months to come.
Here's a quick dashboard of the plans from all around state government:
Open Data Planning MaturityPowered by Socrata
Washington state agencies post a wide variety of structured data on their websites as Excel downloads. You can find them all using the Access Washington federated search. By my count there are currently over 10,000 such tables. Individual downloads are great, but when agencies post tables in an open data portal like data.wa.gov or geography.wa.gov the underlying data can be retrieved in a…
