Digital Government

Technology will do Census no Good

Census director Kenneth Prewitt said Tuesday that technology won't help the agency find those who are undercounted in the 2000 census and that it will take knocking on doors and old-fashioned legwork to do the job instead.

Digital Government

"LawNet'' brings states together to fight cybercrime

Attorney General Janet Reno on Monday proposed a cooperative network that would enable law enforcement agencies across the country to share information on electronic crimes.

Digital Government

Technology can't solve Census' hardest problems

Census Director Kenneth Prewitt said Tuesday that technology won't help the 2000 census find those who are undercounted it will take knocking on doors and oldfashioned legwork to do the job.

Digital Government

NASA, Industry to collaborate on research

NASA's Center of Excellence for Information Technology at Ames Research Center will conduct joint research in cuttingedge technologies with industry partners at the NASA Research Park.

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California Counties to Share Social Services Network

A consortium of California counties is investing $321 million in a network system that they hope will improve the state's delivery of social services.

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Archivists struggle to preserve Clinton impeachment record

One year after the impeachment trial of President Clinton, Senate historians are quietly taking oral histories of clerks, parliamentarians and other support staff who were the eyes, ears and workers at the historic event. And the biggest problem they are facing is how to preserve the words of eyewitnesses.

Digital Government

Web site offers transportation clearinghouse

The designers of smarter, more efficient transportation systems have a new online resource to get information about transportation research.

Digital Government

Facing Windows 2000: The upgrade imperative

Like many in the technology business, I used to look forward to trying out new software. I was eager to experiment with new features and find out how to put them to good use.

Digital Government

Success Raises IT Bar

'Success is harder to absorb than failure,' wrote Theodore H. White, the late reporter and historian.

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Legal Citations from "Nothing personal about a PC"

Citations for Carl Peckinpaugh's column (Nothing personal about a PC) in the 1/10/00 issue of Federal Computer Week

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States Jump on the Web Portal Bandwagon

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that states can be barred from selling private companies the personal information drivers supply to state motor vehicle departments.

Digital Government

Making documents safe for workflow

With the federal government starting to lay the foundation for electronic commerce, many agencies are looking to commercial solutions for building publickey infrastructure systems.

Digital Government

DSL: Better Speeds and Feeds

To meet the increasing demand from state and local governments for high-speed Internet access, vendors are offering an emerging technology called Digital Subscriber Line as a low-cost alternative to dedicated lines.

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Keeping Data Within Reach

Storage options include online, offline and near-line solutions on media such as tape, hard disks and CD-ROMs. In many cases, the best storage solution is a combination of these options.

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Beyond the millennium bug

Lacking trouble from the date change, federal officials emphasized other benefits from the massive effort to make computers safe for the new century.

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Teaching the Teachers

Even as educators rush to usher U.S. schools into the online revolution, a gap is growing between students? access to the technology and the teachers who are familiar with all the new hardware and software.

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A Problem for Y2K: Creating Digital Government

An unusual sense of urgency permeated this year's conference of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives. You could hear it in the hallway chatter, the lunch-time conversations and the audience comments during the October event in Indianapolis.

Digital Government

Rand: Fed crime-fighting dollars paying off

Rand, the publicpolicy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.

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Arizona Democrats to Hold First Binding Internet Vote

The Arizona Democratic Party plans to allow its members to vote online in the March 11 presidential primary, the first time Internet votes will officially count in a public office election.

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FEC zeroes in on e-politics

From bumper stickers to campaign buttons to fundraising banquets, the Federal Election Commission regulates political campaigns, so FEC interest in the fastgrowing phenomenon of politics on the Internet was inevitable.