Recapping the Winter 2010 Issue

Winter 2010 | Volume 39, Number 4: Innovations in Government Oversight, Stewardship and Accountability

The winter 2010 issue is built around five articles that explore innovations in government oversight, stewardship and accountability:

• The feature article by Richard Wenning and **Damian

  **Betebenner demonstrates how data

  visualization technology is helping to improve educational accountability

  in Colorado.

  Check out two recent podcasts with Damian Betebenner and technologists from

  Universal Mind.

   

• Deborah A. Milks, a former US Peace Corps Volunteer now serving as an instructor with the Graduate

  School, takes us to the

  South Pacific and shares how local officials are improving oversight and accountability

  one island government at a time.

   

• Brian Green of Learning Tree International irons out linkages between budgets, performance and accountability with a case

  illustration of how the US Department of Veterans Affairs is improving

  performance and building the business acumen of acquisition professionals.

   

• Michael Lennon and Gary Berg-Cross provide a

  template for achieving a high-performing, more open-style governance approach.

  My podcast interview with Michael Lennon, in which he elaborates on this

  article and foreshadows the US Department of Energy’s citizen engagement efforts

  aimed at DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE, will be published to our site early next week.

   

• Lastly, Jack Malgeri adds a

  thought-provoking piece on how organizational foresight and stewardship have

  dramatically improved accessibility of our national treasures overseen by the

  National Park Service.

   

We also peer into the changing public sector workplace - people, budgets, technology, and learning - with articles about leadership in the U.S. Army, strategic budgeting for local government equipment, and how IT managers need to prepare for new demands. Your subscription to The Public Manager gives you online access to these full articles from our Winter 2010 issue and 39 years of archived issues.