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I recently posted on posterous about the government's need to catch up on technology. Apparently Obama agrees!

This article shows how governmental agencies are using technology tools to help gather the taxes that people have failed to pay in the past. This technology tool analyzes the data that has been collected about an individual and uses that to compare the different ways of going about collecting the past due taxes. Using this analyzing tool allows the government to spend less resources trying to collect the taxes and also has proven to increase the amount of past taxes that are collected.

Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, airport security has become a lot more invasive with the rollout of the so-called "advanced imaging technology" scanners, paid for with $1 billion in stimulus funds. The scanners - now deployed at about 78 airports - use either millimeter wave or backscatter technology to create a virtual picture of the traveler's naked body. The image is then viewed by a screener  with the Transportation Security Agency iin a sequestered room away from the checkpoint.

At first I had no intentions of using this article as a bookmark, however, after I got to reading it I realized the implications it has in regards to public administration. As technology advances and becomes more prominent within society people are finding more uses for it for personal and emotional gains. As more technology is available, it is more likely that children will have access to these also. This article describes the schools and law enforcemenets efforts to combat the problems that technology can bring to our society. This article also suggests public policy involved in these types of cases and can also spark ideas into ways that policy can become better and more fine tuned to fit the needs of our society today.

These topic seem are important on how its educated us about what technology does to the nonprofit or government. some of the things they Author point out were impactful, innovation, and tranformative all these words were used for the change a technolgy could do to the alter the nonprofit or government programs. i think that it useful to have these technology that support our ideas about negative impact that could damage nonprofit work in some ways.

I like this article because it has applications to things like oil pipelines. Whenever I hear of a leak in a pipeline I wonder why technology fails to automate a relatively quick solution. If there is a proper array of monitoring devices responses can and should be automated to provide a rapid response beyond a simple call for help...

This could set precedent for privacy in technology in the future.

With all these travesties continuing to occur in Japan there seems to be many ideas and techniques to help these disaster areas. This shows yet again the innovations of today's modern robots and their ability to help those in need when it may be unsafe for humans. This is a very interesting article as to how advancements in technology can continue to advance the efforts of governments and organizations to help victims of disasters.

Wireless technology platforms are changing rapidly and there is always an emerging battle between two or more delivery paths. LTE appears to have an edge in the immediate future but WiMaxx is one of the technologies that hopes to supplant it. Public safety organizations are endorsing LTE.

There is a definite correlation in mobile wireless applications for public safety and nonprofits alike

Babson College partnered up with a new nonprofit called ConvergeUS, whose mission is to leverage the collective power of the technology sector to accelerate social innovation in collaboration with nonprofit organizations.

The outline of the 12th Five-Year Plan maps out a visionary blueprint for China's science and technology development. It's viewed by officials as a way to nurture talent in both fields, which will ultimately boost the nation's economy.

A non-profit out of California has created software for human rights workers that is designed to secretly store data about human rights violation abuses in the country where they are located. There is talk about it already being used in the Middle-East recently. The software includes a 'panic button' that a human rights worker could use that would instantly delete all the files on the computer about government violations. The data is then stored in the cloud and accessable only with a password and secret 'key.' This is a great example of nonprofits working together to fight enormous challenges, with human rights being one of the most dangerous and exhaustive areas of work in the non-profit sector.