Oct 9

Oct 9 What makes you a "tech company"?

Dennis D. McDonald

Technology, Management Tools, Management, Creativity, Writing, Project Management, Product Development

Apr 21

Apr 21 NOAA’s Big Data Project Comes Into Focus

Dennis D. McDonald

Acquisitions, Agency Data, Amazon, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Google, IBM, Innovation, Interoperability, Microsoft, NOAA, Open Cloud Consortium, Open Data, Product Development, Socrata, Standards, Transparency

What’s different about this newly announced NOAA program is not just the potential “big data” scope of the program but the way in which private sector cloud vendors are involved as intermediaries not only to the public but also to potential data vendors and resellers.

Nov 7

Nov 7 Challenges of Public-Private Interfaces in Open Data and Big Data Partnerships

Dennis D. McDonald

Agency Data, Big Data, Marketing, NOAA, Open Data, Product Development, Strategy

I would not be surprised if government agencies find themselves experimenting with different organizational and governance structures as they begin to take open data programs more seriously.