Federal Government Ethics: Social Media

Social media in government

Social media adoption and resulting tactics in the U.S. federal government

In 2009, the departments in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government received the presidential marching order to " harness new technologies " in order to become more transparent, collaborative and par ticipatory. Given this mandate, this article sets out to provide insights from qualitative interviews with social media directors to understand the factors that influence internal adopt...

More Federal Government Involvement

It is important to indicate at the outset that I do not intend to argue for more funding for soil conservation programs, but rather for more efficient use of the resources presently committed. Before we can go very far in evaluating the impacts of soil conservation spending changes, we need additional background on soil conservation programs. It is hoped that such information will tell us somet...

Organizing Federal E-Government Schemas

In this paper we present an approach to organize e-government schemas in Switzerland. On the political side, Switzerland is a challenging environment for any federation-wide harmonization and cooperation, because many authorities are organized independently. On the technical side, we describe an approach which aims at increasing the federation-wide cooperation through providing interested parti...

eProcurement by Brazil's Federal Government

The scope of this paper is to discuss the use of Internet Technology in the process of procurement currently employed by the Brazilian Federal Government. The focus of this analysis is on the Internet-Based Reverse Auction system employed by the Federal Administration to purchase goods and services from the standpoint of efficiency, efficacy and accountability. An explanatory single case study ...