Digital Government
Caught in the Web
Government Webmasters, many with backgrounds far from City Hall, are being thrust into the center of an increasingly complex, public and critical part of the civic world.
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Sending workers on the road
From the tangled suburbs of Northern Virginia to the remote corners of South Dakota, federal workers are becoming mobile workers ? to the delight and consternation of their supervisors.
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Citizens Lobby for More Open Government
When stories of corruption and back-room deals came to light a few years ago in Miami-Dade County, Fla., civic organizations took action.
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Budget cuts jeopardize NGI
The Energy Department continues to bolster the Clinton administration?#x92;s initiative to build a faster Internet by providing its own funding, but Congress?#x92; decision not to provide specific NGI funding to DOE in fiscal 2000 may be detrimental to all agency NGI projects.
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Virtual security services offered
While security assessment services are gaining prominence alongside software products as a standard part of an overall security purchase, at least one vendor is offering virtual assessment services so that agencies don't even have to buy the software.
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Out with the old, in with the new
At a time when the idea of 'out with the old, in with the new' is getting a lot of attention, the PC industry is creating its own version of seasonal renewal with the selling of 'legacyfree' PCs. If that sounds like a way of forgetting the mistakes of the past and embracing the future, well that?#x92;s the idea.
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Y2K mayhem? Just ho-hum
The biggest Year 2000 problem for the federal government may have been getting stuck at work during the celebrations. As computer systems functioned through Zulu time, midnight Eastern Time and the good times, millennium bug watchers may have felt a bit let down.
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Flexibility a must for NASA's PKI
NASA's publickey infrastructure will operate using Entrust Technologies' certification authority infrastructure, which can provide a user two digital signature identities, one a personal identity and one based on the person's role within an organization, said Gary Moore, a federal technical advisor with Entrust.
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Outsourcing's hidden benefit
When it was introduced into the federal market in 1998, many in government saw desktop outsourcing as a way to lower agency costs by handing over ownership of hardware, software and support services to a private company.
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Security services to the rescue
As agencies begin to free themselves from the burden of Year 2000 remediation, many will focus on the next big blip on management radar screens: securing federal networks from external and internal threats.
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Telecom Firms Seed Broad Va. Market
MCI WorldCom and Sprint say they view VirginiaLink as an extension of their existing business with Virginia and that that relationship spurred them to participate. But they also say the program eventually could be a good commercial investment.
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Pennsylvania DOT Cancels Contract With Information Services Provider
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation on Thursday canceled its contract with ChoicePoint Services Inc., on evidence that the company ignored rules regarding the privacy of driver records.
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Texas County Opening Tech-Savvy Justice Center
Harris County, Texas, will open its Criminal Justice Center building on Jan. 10 with a high-speed Gigabit Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode network that will serve the more than 12,000 users of the county's criminal justice courts and supporting services.
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Arkansas Governor Holds Internet Chat
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who already spends an hour each month on radio and television answering questions from Arkansas citizens, took to the Internet Wednesday evening for his first live online chat session.
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Sarasota Co., Fla., Commits to Cutting-Edge System
Sarasota County, Fla., is embarking on a major project to link its local criminal justice agencies on a World Wide Web-enabled information system.
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Commerce Grants to Ease 'Digital Divide'
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary William Daley announced Wednesday that about $12.5 million in grants will be awarded this year to help close the gap between Americans with and without access to new technologies.
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Bids Sought to Develop Medicaid Data Warehouse
The Utah Department of Health's Division of Health Care Financing is seeking bids to develop a data warehouse to manage its Medicaid program.
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HUD Neighborhood Networks Now in 50 States
With recent openings in Montana and South Dakota, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that HUD?s Neighborhood Networks computer centers are now serving low-income residents in every state.
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