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Ideas For Changing Government IT Systems

  • Connect in New Ways: The power of social networking technology need not be limited to Facebook, Ning and LinkedIn. Government can grow its own information sharing communities—but need enterprise-level features and high levels of information assurance and data protection.  Swan Island's TIES delivers both.

  • "Virtualize" Crisis Management: With contemporary rich Internet and mobile applications, critical information can now move safely outside of a command center, into the field—or on the road. Use highly distributed situational awareness to make everyone in your organization smarter, faster and more effective.

  • Leverage Standards: Swan Island is a world leader in the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard for geospatial systems. With TIES, CAP alert aggregation and filtering technology, data from many sources and formats can be fused to create a faster, clearer picture of breaking events.

...The wreck of a city by a hurricane is an example of asymmetry…software designers have gotten pretty good at increasing resistance to asymmetrical threats. The principles are well known: Use uncomplicated parts, encourage redundancy, and open the system to public examination…The key is not to anticipate every problem, but to create flexible networks that can route around failure.
               —Wired Magazine


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