Arnold at CENDI
September 11, 2009
Stephen E. Arnold, managing partner of Arnold Information Technology (ArnoldIT.com) and our Beyond Search guru, gave the keynote address at an invitation-only conference organized by the CENDI, interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information (STI) managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies Wednesday at the headquarters of the National Technical Information Service in Alexandria, Virginia. You can read a version of his two hour lecture here. CENDI representatives received a briefing on the challenges of changing information technology, particularly as related to the Internet and Google, and how those challenges may affect the federal government. Feedback from the attendees was, according to the email sent today (September 10, 2009), “We received overwhelmingly positive feedback on your section of the day.”
Our own Mr. Arnold summarized the current climate of online information access, covering how data is organized and how users access it. “Google has building blocks. What is important for the U.S. government is that some firms have already begun to use Google tools to deliver dataspace functions today,” Arnold said. He asserted what users generally want when they search online, what they usually find, and what questions the “new wave” of search systems will raise, including implications for personal privacy, commercial information companies and government agencies generating content.
Jessica Bratcher, September 11, 2009
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