e.Republic Honored with City of Folsom Resolution of Commendation

The Folsom Chamber of Commerce honored e.Republic with a resolution for its support of the Folsom History Museum. Based in Folsom, California, e.Republic has been an long time supporter of chamber and community events in the city.

Don Pearson Named Top Innovator in Media Publishing

Don Pearson, Group Publisher for Government Technology Publications and Executive Vice President, Sales, has just been named by BtoB Media Business as one of this year’s “Top Innovators in Media Publishing”.

The BtoB Top Innovator awards honor executives at publishing companies in recognition of  their “…outstanding accomplishments using true innovation and creative thinking over the past year.”     See full story here.

The awards will be presented Thursday, June 13th at the Union League Club in Manhattan.
“I am honored and sincerely appreciate the recognition for both myself as a publisher and e.Republic”, Don said when told of the award by Bob Felsenthal, VP/Publisher of BtoB Media Business.

Don joined e.Republic in 1992 as the first executive director of Government Technology Executive Forums.

e.Republic Recognized for its Support of Habitat for Humanity

e.Republic volunteers have helped build two homes for Habitat for Humanity

e.Republic Honored for Long Partnership with Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

For over ten years e.Republic has helped produce the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, creating its keepsake 28-32 page program, creating all signage and printed materials, and assisting on securing sponsorships, ticket sales and keynote speakers.

The Great Cake Walk

It was an evening of Sacramento’s best cakes and desserts!  Wonderful confections, celebrity walkers, cake walks and auctions – all in the name of helping students fulfill their college dreams.

News10′s Cristina Mendonsa hosted the second annual “Great Cake Walk” – an old-fashioned cake walk with some of the finest bakers in the city bringing their confections for tasting and cake walks!
 
The Great Cake Walk was presented by the non-profit Closing the Gap and held at the Sacramento State Alumni Center.  This year’s proceeds targeted over 900 students in the Sacramento area and benefited the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and the Sacramento Police Foundation high school academy students.  

Held on Thursday, March 14, it was a huge success.  e.Republic is a partner of Closing the Gap, a Sacramento non-profit whose mission is to close the achievement gap in the Sacramento Region.For more photos of the event go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/erepublic/#

Government Technology and Center for Digital Government Announce the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers of 2013

e.Republic’s Government Technology magazine and the Center for Digital Government have announced the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers of 2013. 

Huge strides were made in government technology this past year, from social media and voter registration improvements to asthma sensors and more. 

Washington state implemented a new way for voters to register or make changes to their voter registrations via Facebook and My Vote.  New Jersey is using social media, Twitter and hashtags to engage a younger generation in government and politics.  Louisville, Ky., has spearheaded a new provision for asthma sufferers to be provided sensors that track when and where they access their medication. These are just a few of the innovations in the field and the reasons why Government Technology chose this year’s Top 25 winners. 

“The annual GT Top 25 is our way of acknowledging the hard work and innovative ideas that make our communities safer, more successful and better places to live,” says Steve Towns, executive editor of Government Technology.

These visionaries in state and local government are being recognized in the March issue of Government Technology and on govtech.com for setting the standard on how technology can be used to improve government performance and strengthen citizen services.   

Government Technology has awarded this honor to more than 300 individuals over the last 11 years. Visit govtech.com to see profiles of this year’s winners and watch a video about how winners are chosen. 

Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers of 2013:  

Massoud Amin, Director, Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota 

Pete Anderson, CIO, Fort Worth, Texas 

David Behen, CIO, Michigan 

Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, New Jersey 

Randy Cole, President, Ohio Controlling Board 

Stu Davis, CIO, Ohio 

Chuck Dowd, Commanding Officer of the Communications Division, New York City Police Department 

Laura Fucci, CIO, Henderson, Nevada 

Shane Hamlin, Assistant Director of Elections, Washington Secretary of State’s Office 

Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos 

John Letchford, CIO, Massachusetts 

Scott McCallum, President and CEO, Aidmatrix Foundation 

Kevin McGinnis, CEO, North East Mobile Health Services 

Alex Padilla, Senator, California 

Joe Panora, Director of the Division of Enterprise Information Services, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 

Carolyn Parnell, CIO, Minnesota 

Carlos Ramos, CIO, California 

Jonathan Reichental, CIO, Palo Alto, California 

Chuck Robinson, Director of Shared Services, Charlotte, North Carolina 

Kristin Russell, CIO, Colorado 

Mike Russo, Director of Cybersecurity, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles 

Ted Smith, Director of the Department of Economic Growth and Innovation, Louisville, Kentucky 

Rick Snyder, Governor, Michigan 

Ken Ulman, Executive, Howard County, Maryland 

Bob Woolley, Chief Technical Architect, Utah 

See http://www.govtech.com/top-25/  

The Center for Digital Government is a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. http://centerdigitalgov.com 

Government Technology is about solving problems in state and local government through the smart use of technology. Drawing on experiences from across the country, Government Technology features best practices and fosters communities of interest around improving service delivery and transforming government operations. http://www.govtech.com   

 

 

Dennis McKenna on the policies, politics, and the human dynamics of government x technology

Dennis McKenna

e.Republic CEO, Dennis McKenna was recently interview by Alexandra Meis.  Alex is the cofounder of the education startup Kinvolved http://www.kinvolved.com/ and a graduate student at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. The interview was for her class Gov 3.0: Rethinking Governance and Re-Imagining Democracy for the 21st Century.

See http://bit.ly/WIejW5

Here’s an excerpt: 

Alexandra Meis: Please give a high level overview of your work at the intersection of technology and government.

Dennis McKenna: About 25 years ago I started a media company, e.Republic, with two partners. This was in the mid 1980’s when the PC revolution was taking off. We were based in California’s capital, Sacramento, and had been working on issues related to government policy and innovation. I was not a technologist, but became fascinated with how this new “digital revolution” might transform government. In 1987 we launched Government Technology magazine and a series of conferences in major state capitals around the country.  We were the first to cover these new technologies and their impact on state and local governments. We’ve been on this beat for 25 years and had a front row seat at this continually evolving intersection of technology and government. I’ve always felt that most of the interesting work in government transformation happens not at the federal level but in states, cities, and counties, the “laboratories of democracy.”  For the rest go to http://bit.ly/WIejW5.