September 12, 2003
Volume 1, Number 3

Enter Your Choice for an "Innovator Award"
Jeff Erlichman Executive Director Public Sector Institute
Share top achievements with your colleagues. Nominate programs that demonstrate innovative solutions or the use of Best Practices. Awardees will be profiled in future issues of "Effective Government In Action". To nominate, click here.

Homeland Security Strategies
FIAC Will Help With FISMA Compliance

The C&A effort engages both program officials and agency CIOs to look beyond individual products and broach the system as a single entity.

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) remains a cornerstone element of both the White House and congressional effort to link funding for IT systems directly to security compliance.

But in the hurly burly of program and system development, the question inevitably arises: How do agencies make sure they are following FISMA close enough to ensure that funds will be there at budget time? more...

High Stakes Writing's Dr. Dees Stallings is a chief proponent of "The One-Knuckle Technique"

By Dees Stallings

E-mail is the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective means of communicating in writing today. What does that mean to us in a government workplace? It means: more...

Innovators In Action
Convergence in Geospace

Geospatial technology today is the convergence of GIS, GPS, remote sensing technologies, mapping, and other capabilities.

Getting "geo prepared" is all about carving out standards.

Geospatial preparedness in the war on terrorism follows from a basic fact of life in post-9/11 America. "We don't know where the next terrorist event is going to be," said Susan Kalweit, who leads the federal Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team.

Essentially, this means that emergency response managers have to be ready everywhere. more...

Knowledge Management Best Practices
The Canadian Forest Service -- Using Information as a Strategic Asset

The KM project will enable the Service to provide improved stewardship of Canada's forests, and to increase the competitiveness of Canada's forest sector.

The Canadian Forest Service has linked the success of its Knowledge Management business plan directly to its corporate strategy of using information as a strategic asset. The development of the CSF business case, took five years, from 1997 - 2002, to ensure the integrity of the plan, adequate resources, management support, and organizational buy-in. more...