tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53143752011-04-21T14:30:04.791-04:00news, opinion, and helpful links on the topic of electronic government initiativesmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1069098236721035852003-11-17T14:43:00.000-05:002003-11-17T14:44:29.403-05:00

For anyone who is still showing their face around here, please update your links, and point your browsers to our new address: http://egov.cathexes.net/. See you there.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1057583889089568462003-07-07T09:18:00.000-04:002003-07-07T09:18:09.063-04:00

A couple articles (both via beSpacific) on the move to e-filing of documents by the U.S. government. The first article deals with e-filing of documents within in the judicial system. No specifics, but does track progression of these initiatives from its current nascent state (merely scanning paper documents by the courts), to the full realization of document submittal in XML. I tried to play

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1057241550346818642003-07-03T10:12:00.000-04:002003-07-03T10:12:30.326-04:00

I'm taking a class in information seeking behavior over the summer. for my final paper, I think the population I want to research is public sector employees, and their search for information related to career development, etc. Think along the lines of the Gov Online Learning Center. I was just wondering if anyone out there might, off the top of their head have good resources for similar websites

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1057159334288530912003-07-02T11:22:00.000-04:002003-07-02T11:22:14.270-04:00

If you haven't heard, the US Federal Trade Commission has recently set up a national Do Not Call registry. Registering with the DNC list will stop as much as 80% of telemarketing calls to your home. Telemarketers get the list from the FTC, and if they are found to be calling numbers on the list, they are subject to fines. Great idea, and something that has existed in various forms (especially at

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1057000700112558722003-06-30T15:18:00.000-04:002003-06-30T15:18:20.080-04:00

Last week the US Supreme Court ruled the legislation requiring libraries to use filtering software in order to receive federal funds was constitutional. The arguements were the compelling interest in shielding children from "harmful" material to the protection of free speech (or rather the ability to freely receive speech). I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this whole issue - I agree

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-1056980484158674692003-06-30T09:41:00.000-04:002003-06-30T09:41:24.126-04:00

After a series of articles over the past couple weeks warning that eGov initiatives aren't quite the cost savers they've been sold to be, here is some news about ways eGov has saved time/money in the US. They cite consolidation of agency business activities as the prime reason for the savings, which includes $1.2 billion in payroll savings over the next ten years.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-960167912003-06-25T10:37:00.000-04:002003-06-25T10:37:35.210-04:00

Here is a slash dotish thread documenting anecdotal experiences with UK eGov initatives. It is one thing to see surveys and reports, but to read personal experiences provides another interesting glimpse into why take-up of services hasn't been higher.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-959613312003-06-23T18:52:00.000-04:002003-06-23T18:52:25.320-04:00

Following up on a theme from an earlier story, this article cautions agencies from selling eGov iniatiatives as cost savers. One reason is that it is often tough to determine where savings are being generated, technological advances or policy changes. Another reason is that since these iniatitives have not achieved full adoption, most agencies are still providing paper as well as digital version

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-959493822003-06-23T12:07:00.000-04:002003-06-23T12:07:02.083-04:00

The Electoral Reform Society, an independent organization concerned with, well, electoral reform, published their report of the UK's recent voting trials and the news is not so good. Their report on the various alternative voting pilots found that none significantly increased voter turnout. The pilots tested in the recent elections included postal, SMS, internet, and digital TV. All in all,

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-958630922003-06-20T10:22:00.000-04:002003-06-20T10:22:53.313-04:00

A couple days ago I wrote about how eGov initatives have yet to save the time and money they've promised. Well, I just ran across this article that says the problem aren't the initiatives themselves, but rather that not enough people know about them to make them viable alternatives to traditional interaction methods. This is another one of those polls/reports that for sets out to prove an obvious

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-957209742003-06-16T12:25:00.000-04:002003-06-16T12:25:34.136-04:00

An hour long discussion of Natural language processing and FirstGov from the National Public Radio station at American University. Guests on the show include the CTO from the General Services Administration and the Vice President of the Council for Excellence in Government. Haven't gotten to listen to the whole thing yet (on dial-up from home, yes it is very 1998), but what I have heard of it

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-956606962003-06-14T10:14:00.000-04:002003-06-14T10:14:48.960-04:00

In the UK eGovernment costs outstrip savings. Most of the deficeit is made up of the start-up costs of these initiatives, but savings wont catch up to costs until at least 2012, it is estimated. One of the big selling points for eGovernment is the potential cost benefits of reduced staffing, beuracracy, etc and if these benefits aren't visible for another decade, and I'm worried that legislators

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-955634632003-06-11T16:46:00.000-04:002003-06-11T16:46:09.386-04:00

An interesting article on the state of eGovernment in South Korea. Their $251 million project, which began last November, has since lost 2/3 of its traffic since debuting. The program relies heavily on public kiosks and severeal of those kiosks have already been shut down because of disuse. I don't read Korean well enough (at all, really), to judge the Korean eGov site, but I hope that

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-955516612003-06-11T11:19:00.000-04:002003-06-11T11:19:29.173-04:00

In the 2004 elections, the US federal government will be testing its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE). I've got some initial problems with SERVE, 1) it is only available on computers running on the Windows operating system, 2) the testing will be very limited to about 6 million potential voters (only citizens living abroad and members of the armed services), and 3)

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-955063962003-06-10T10:25:00.000-04:002003-06-10T10:25:03.100-04:00

Though declaring email “the end of history” is more than a bit of hyperbole, this article about the difficulty of keeping a national archive in the digital age is very scary. Personally, this problem keeps me awake at night. Because of email, and the Internet in general, people are writing and reading more, yet very little of that information is being archived in any meaningful way.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-953819482003-06-06T15:11:00.000-04:002003-06-06T15:11:40.970-04:00

Digital access to the UK's government art collection. Link via Experimental Space, who asks why the US doesn't have a similar digital archive. Good question. They may very well have one, somewhere, but the American Memory a digital archive from the Library of Congress, contains an extensive collection of pictures, sounds, text, and movies.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-953687912003-06-06T09:21:00.000-04:002003-06-06T09:21:00.173-04:00

If you are going to be in DC next week, you should visit E-Gov 2003. The conference itself is very expensive, but the expo, exhibitions, and a couple sesssions are free (for government employees, cheap otherwise).

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-953274552003-06-05T10:16:00.000-04:002003-06-05T10:16:05.133-04:00

The District of Columbia has gotten a very nice revamp. According to this article from GCN, they didn't add much new content or functionality, merely reorganizing of the information already on the site. One of the major flaws in most websites is that sturcture of the site mirrors the organizational heirarchy, rather than the matching the needs and expectations of the users. This is especially

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-952475992003-06-03T14:27:00.000-04:002003-06-03T14:27:27.193-04:00

An excellent resource on information about restrictions on access to Government Information. This resource is maintained by the Government Documents interest group of the American Library Association, who also maintain this list documents regarding Freedom of Information issues. I wish I'd run across these about two months earlier while I was working on a paper about the Federal Depository

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-952458562003-06-03T13:42:00.000-04:002003-06-03T13:42:08.606-04:00

At the end of 2002 the UK had made 63% of public services available online. While lower than the 73% projected 3 years ago, this seems like an overwhelming success to me. I'd like to see figures for the US, Canada, Singapore and other nations deemed to be at the high end of the eGov spectrum, but even 63% strikes me as a higher than expected figure. Despite being lower than projected, the UK's

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-951951092003-06-02T11:41:00.000-04:002003-06-02T13:57:57.000-04:00

I wish this story about egov initiatives in India was a little more detailed (anyone have a better source for info?), but it does support my continual contention that it is possible for "third world" governments/economies to leap frog over the industrial age into the information age and become strong precences. A government like India's has much more to gain by embracing eGov than most western

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-951947652003-06-02T11:33:00.000-04:002003-06-02T11:33:25.846-04:00

This article looks at the usability efforts of the big e-government portals. The tips they suggests (example: "Define your audience(s)") are very common and simple, but GPO Access and FirstGov really put those principles into action more than any other large organization, even ones that claim to be concernd with usability (Both those sites are certainly more useable than Jakob Nielsen's UseIt).

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-947944242003-05-23T13:27:00.000-04:002003-05-23T13:27:59.676-04:00

Despite the former Soviet Union's adoption of a policy of openess (glasnost), the reality of that policy hasn't taken nearly the form most people would expected, or hoped for. This is especially true on the Internet, which is supposed to have a democratizing effect in regards to freedom of information. Estimates place Internet access in Russia at only about 5% (compared to 70% here in the

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-946452882003-05-20T14:40:00.000-04:002003-05-20T14:46:13.000-04:00

I've seen a lot or talk about the use of open source software in the public sector. It sort of seems like a gimme to me - open source software is free or inexpensive, usually results in increased security, provides more extensibility, and avoids the market dominance issue by allowing government to do business without complete reliance on Microsoft. Here is a good resource from Gartner

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-946440862003-05-20T14:11:00.000-04:002003-05-20T14:11:28.126-04:00

There is a soon to be released survey on legal issues of information on the web and here is an interesting little pre-article about it. The question of how do you make information easily available (in accordane with the Freedom of Information Act), but still protect privacy issues (in accordance with the Data Protection Act). It seems impossible to abide by one set of legislation without runnign

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-946364662003-05-20T11:15:00.000-04:002003-05-20T11:15:54.903-04:00

I wrote two of my end of term papers on various eGov topics (one on the Federal Depository Library Program and GPO Access and the other on eVoting). If anyone might be interested in reading either of those, once I get them back and make sure I've gotten the As I deserve, leave a message in comments.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-946363092003-05-20T11:11:00.000-04:002003-05-20T11:11:43.506-04:00

If you are a government CIO and you don't happen to check your inbox very often, here is the memo from eGov Czar Mark Foreman specifying procedures to collect part of the $5 million federal budget allocated to eGov this fiscal year.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-939378412003-05-07T13:24:00.000-04:002003-05-07T13:24:01.010-04:00

Many apologies. I'm in the midst of finals, and very stressed at the moment. I shall return and begin a much more regular blogging schedule come Monday, May 12th.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-936615492003-05-02T13:22:00.000-04:002003-05-02T13:24:54.000-04:00

Inside Politics is dubbed a "Your Guide to National and State Politices," and is just that. There is a wealth of information here, mostly financial data about US legislators and research/polls performed by Brown University, which only makes sense considering the site is compiled by Darrell West, a profesor at Brown's Center for Public Policy. What should be of particular interest to anyone who'd

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-936186252003-05-01T17:53:00.000-04:002003-05-01T17:53:44.083-04:00

ABC News is collecting daily "notes" from the presidential candidates and collecting them on one website. The notes can be on any topic, but must be 200 words or less. Most of the notes have been written (or at least attributed) to the candidates themselves. The Washington Post is calling it a weblog, but I don't see it. I'm not sure what could more can be communicated by the candidates in 200

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-935468532003-04-30T14:53:00.000-04:002003-04-30T14:53:26.200-04:00

Interesting article about England's eVoting pilots, and the hope for increased voter turnout. The last local elections in the UK attracted only 1/3 of registered voters. And while the various (smaller scale) pilots that ran last year all saw increased turnout, most people are unconvinced that these new iniatitives will make much of a difference. "Some people would say that these new measures will

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-935119232003-04-30T00:39:00.000-04:002003-04-30T00:44:03.000-04:00

Today begins a 3 day Federal Trade Commission Spam Forum "to address the proliferation of unsolicited commercial e-mail and to explore the technical, legal, and financial issues associated with it. " The Forum is open to the public, so if you are in the DC area, maybe you would like to stop by and let me know whats going on? Otherwise, they've already put up some of the materials being

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934758562003-04-29T13:13:00.000-04:002003-04-29T13:13:17.786-04:00

It is staggering to hear, but US portal FirstGov does not currently use a Content Management System (CMS). Each page on the site is hand-coded, but not for much longer. the General Services Administration recently signed a half million dollar contract for use of Vignette's CMS software. To illustrate why a CMS is so important, here is a quote from M.J. Jameson, s GSA associate administrator:

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934662122003-04-29T10:18:00.000-04:002003-04-29T10:18:08.606-04:00

Assessment of Electronic Government Information Products This report was put together in early 1999, so is a little dated, but it is still an interesting look at the initital efforts towards providing digital access to documents in the Federal Depository Library Program. At the time, the study found that: there was no unified standards across government agencies, little thought had been given to

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934266952003-04-28T18:39:00.000-04:002003-04-28T18:43:19.000-04:00

Nothing to do with anything, really, but I'm amazed at how the banner above has ads relevant to the site's topic. I wonder if it is a human who goes through all the new Blogger blogs and defines keywords, or whether they are able to grab them off the site description, and if so, I wonder what kind of thesaurus they are using in order to serve appropriate ads. I'm also shocked that the site is

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934233472003-04-28T17:34:00.000-04:002003-04-28T17:34:34.336-04:00

The National Defense University graduated the first student from its eGovernment Leadership Certificate Program on April 11. I'd been wondering if such a program existed, and here it is. 75 of the 100 or so people in the program are currently employed by the Department of Defense, but the program encourges citizen applicants.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934076942003-04-28T12:42:00.000-04:002003-04-28T12:42:07.113-04:00

For those of you who like to watch, the Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) provides access to nearly 80 traffic webcams throughout all 5 boroughs. There are 62 cameras providing still images, which are updated every 15-30 seconds, and another 17 cameras that provide full streaming images. The cameras are meant to help DOT staff

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-934062982003-04-28T12:16:00.000-04:002003-04-28T12:16:32.140-04:00

The Ohio House of Representative may pass bill that would limit government agencies ability to provide free information on their websites. The bill, HB 145, had been voted down last year, but was attached to this year's budget bill without any debate. The bill is based on non-compete laws, the idea that government agencies should not compete without private enterprise. If the bill were to

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-932637092003-04-25T17:39:00.000-04:002003-04-25T17:39:03.706-04:00

The UK is preparing to enact nation-wide eVoting by 2006. Toward that goal, they'll be offering 17 pilot eVoting schemes include Digital TV, wireless text messaging, touch-tome telephone, internet, and kiosks. All in all, the government will be testing more than 40 different voting methods, with the opportunity for 1.4 people to participate in the pilot programs for the upcomming May elections.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-932573912003-04-25T15:33:00.000-04:002003-04-25T15:59:25.000-04:00

Accenture (formerly known as Anderson Consulting) is a corporate entity frequently partnered with governments around the world to provide eGov solutions. They've recently issued their fourth annual eGovernment Leadership Report . Their study identified five major trends in eGovernment: ** eGovernment matures through a series of plateaus. No eGov iniative goes online fully formed. Even with

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-932543542003-04-25T14:36:00.000-04:002003-04-25T14:45:28.000-04:00

Does your Congressman have a website? Look for your Representative or Senator. I didn't count, but it looks like all the Senators and most, if not all, of the Representatives have their own websites. It is interesting that, while all the congressmen are hosted within the Senate and House website, each is designed and maintained seperately, and some are pretty awful. It seems like it would be

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-932104292003-04-24T20:47:00.000-04:002003-04-24T20:47:27.370-04:00

Last week the Council for Excellence in Government released a report on the attitudes and expectations of eGov. The study found that half of all Americans and 75% of all Internet users have interacted on some level with an eGov website. The research found that those performing tasks, like renewing their drivers licence, were easier online, which is a pretty obvious conclusion. Actually, all

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931888782003-04-24T13:39:00.000-04:002003-04-24T13:42:56.000-04:00

This isn't strictly about eGov, but it is related. The Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions is a database of over 300 court decisions shaping the law of the web. Each case includes an extensive summary filled with facts, analysis and pertinent quotes. Topics addressed include "copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags,

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931845002003-04-24T12:17:00.000-04:002003-04-24T12:17:50.640-04:00

From what I can tell, Europa is the official portal for information about the European Union. In addition to news, legislation, etc, about the EU, they provide handy links to all official European gov't websites. Also, they recently released a collection of reports on case studies and best practices of EU eGov initiatives. So far, there are 14 reports from 10 countries, covering local,

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931795782003-04-24T10:45:00.000-04:002003-04-24T10:45:53.486-04:00

England has a pretty comprehensive effort to enable their government services. I haven't read through the entire strategy document, but it seems that, wheras the here in the US the national government's strategy involves consolidating federal activities to a few central departments, the UK policy enourages more activity at the local level. I suppose that has something to do with the way our

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931569392003-04-24T00:12:00.000-04:002003-04-24T00:14:13.000-04:00

The Center for Digital Government is a thinktank/consultancy. I'm not sure how useful their research-for hire is to their target market of "government, industry and education leaders," but I enjoyed the (free) reports on top Digital Cities and Digital States, and the general Best of the Web awards. They are in the process of compiling the 2003 awards, but you can take a look at the 2002

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931558922003-04-23T23:52:00.000-04:002003-04-23T23:52:34.603-04:00

David Fletcher claims to be "a long-time egov advocate." And he is from Utah. That is all I can learn about him from his website. Still, his Government and Technology Weblog has archives strecthing for nearly a year, and he seems to really know his stuff. His weblog isn't specifically about eGov, though he does have a seperate category for it, and hits stories as diverse as online fishing

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931551342003-04-23T23:38:00.000-04:002003-04-23T23:38:15.620-04:00

eGov Links is a portal/directory of sites and news stories on a variety of topics, including accessibility, eVoting, security and privacy. Also categorized geographically. This site is relatively sparse at the moment, but seems to be a growing community.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931373472003-04-23T17:42:00.000-04:002003-04-23T17:42:10.450-04:00

Egov.it was developed in conjunction with the Global Conference on Reinventing Government, held earlier this year in Naples, Italy. The developers tried to provide an overview of e-government websites from all over the world. This is an annotated directory of over 1,000 sites, with links to 10,000 more. The English isn't stellar, but the concept and information are. Don't be put off by the

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931360422003-04-23T17:17:00.000-04:002003-04-23T17:21:49.000-04:00

The budget and strategy discussed below are all part of the new Office of Electronic Government, which, ironically, doesn't have a website of its own yet. The OEG was officially created April 16, 2003, and is headed by Mark Forman. Furman is basically the United States' first CIO. Good for him. Forman has an Masters in Applied Microeconomics, was in the Army Corps of Engineers, created and

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931352682003-04-23T17:01:00.000-04:002003-04-23T17:01:57.043-04:00

ElectricNews.net:E-GOVERNMENT is a collection of eGov stories from the Irish technology newswire. There is an obvious technology focus to the articles, rather than a social or public policy focus, and the news is also obviously very Eurocentric, but this is an excellent and frequently updated (several new stories a week) source for information.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931339972003-04-23T16:39:00.000-04:002003-04-23T16:39:15.340-04:00

Here is the Official e-Gov Strategy This isn't the most exciting read ever, but a good one nonetheless. The basic gist is that eGov activities are to consolidated under the central authority of the Office of E-Government and Information Technology for the purpose of making "the Federal government more results oriented, efficient and citizen-centered." Basically, the goal of the strategy

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931325802003-04-23T16:14:00.000-04:002003-04-23T16:14:03.743-04:00

Congress has cut $40 million from the federal egov initiative. When you talk about the federal budget juggles trillions of dollars, $40 million doesn't seem like a whole lot, but Bush had only asked for $45 million. So, even though "half of the American population has used a federal, state or local government Web site," Congress thinks it's fair to allocate less than a quarter per citizen to

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931317192003-04-23T15:58:00.000-04:002003-04-23T15:58:29.420-04:00

This couldn't be a egov blog without the first official post being to the First Gov website. It is a portal to all U.S. Federal material on the web. If you can't find it on First Gov, it doesn't exist.

michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02701307609366482926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314375.post-931312502003-04-23T15:50:00.000-04:002003-04-23T15:53:45.000-04:00

Test post.

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