Gary Berg-Cross

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 datavisualization technology is helping to improve educational accountabilityin Colorado.Check out two recent podcasts with Damian Betebenner and technologists fromUniversal Mind. Deborah A. Milks, a former US Peace Corps Volunteer now serving as an instructor with the GraduateSchool, takes us to theSouth Pacific and shares how local officials are improving oversight and accountabilityone island government at a time. Brian Green of Learning Tree International irons out linkages between budgets, performance and accountability with a caseillustration of how the US Department of Veterans Affairs is improvingperformance and building the business acumen of acquisition professionals. Michael Lennon and Gary Berg-Cross provide atemplate for achieving a high-performing, more open-style governance approach.My podcast interview with Michael Lennon, in which he elaborates on thisarticle and foreshadows the US Department of Energy’s citizen engagement effortsaimed at DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE, will be published to our site early next week. Lastly, Jack Malgeri adds athought-provoking piece on how organizational foresight and stewardship havedramatically improved accessibility of our national treasures overseen by theNational 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.

Recapping the Winter 2010 Issue

October 2010 - The Public Manager

On the first day of his administration, President Obama issued the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government: My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, pub...

Gary Berg-Cross

About