The Whizbang Weekly

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Cognitive Computing in Public Sector

    Challenges to Cognitive Computing in Public Sector The challenge in today’s world of improving or innovating government programs is that we have a broad array of information and process automation to co-ordinate.   Another major challenge of being in a data driven world is that information can be wrong, false, incorrect, out of date or inaccessible. …

    Campbell Robertson

  • Transformation and Innovation in Public Sector has new hope

    I have seen many “transformations” throughout my work with governments: from punch-card Fortran programming to client-server computing, to web, to mobile and social media. Almost every presentation I have seen over the past twenty years speaks to the government’s need to transform: to do more with less and to innovate. So far there has been…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Contextual Computing

    Campbell Robertson

  • Access to information under pressure

    In 2013, over 704,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were submitted to the United States Federal government, and roughly 95,000 remained backlogged at the end of the 2013 fiscal year. According to FOIA.gov, many requests were answered in an incomplete form and were usually missing information. Almost half of those requests were considered incomplete…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Update and Observations May 2014

    I have been meeting with government and healthcare organizations over the past few months and it apparent that there is a general frustration with existing work based technology and applications.  I have discussed this earlier; that we are technically “rich” in our personal lives and technically “poor at work. ERP, HRMS and CRM systems that…

    Campbell Robertson