Digital Government
Denver tracks vaccinations
Denver public-health officials recently unveiled an automated vaccination administration program that keeps track of immunizations citywide.
Digital Government
Ready or not, the dot-coms have arrived
Government must accept that the Internet Age is here, and it must partner with dot-com companies to serve the public.
Digital Government
San Jose building permits online
Residents of San Jose, Calif., can now complete building permit applications online, including paying with a credit card and printing permits from the Internet.
Digital Government
Washington coalition attacks Internet crime
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Washington state have joined together to fight Internet crime, saying each agency alone does not have the expertise or resources to respond to Internet complaints.
Digital Government
Voice verification: Veritel Corp.'s Veritel Voice
We tested voice verification technology from Veritel Corp. Like the face recognition technology from Visionics Corp., Veritel is a BioNetrix Systems Corp. partner, so we tested the system through the BioNetrix Authentication Suite interface. However, Veritel does make stand-alone products and offers licenses for two APIs.
People
Procurement portal gathers support
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is garnering support for its proposal to make the Electronic Posting System the single point of electronic entry to government business opportunities.
Digital Government
Rules of the road
The Federal Highway Administration late last month proposed rules of the road for building intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and will be hitting the road this summer to collect public comments before making the rules final.
People
At a glance
InQTel is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the CIA. The corporation is seeking 501(c)(3) status.
People
USPS: Address unknown?
The U.S. Postal Service's decision to become a dotcom earlier this year really hit the mark, but not as USPS officials intended.
Digital Government
Ark. IT employees to telework
Arkansas' information technology department recently joined a handful of other state IT offices that allow people to work from their homes, a move that managers hope will help with recruitment.
People
How PKI Works
For electronic government to work, agencies and individuals must be convinced that transactions can be carried out privately and that documents are authentic.
People
Industry tackles 508 regs
Proposed standards for making computers and other electronic equipment accessible to people with disabilities have myriad shortcomings, according to an information technology industry group.
Digital Government
Keyware provides layered biometrics solution
Keyware Technologies Inc.'s layered biometrics solution is called the LBV (layered biometric verification) Framework. The LBV Framework is an openarchitecture application program interface that integrates multiple biometric technologies into one system while also allowing you to employ nonbiometric authentication such as publickey infrastructures, smart cards and digital certificates for maximum protection.
People
Lining up for e-gov
The state and local technology market spells big money, and everyone is lining up for a piece of the pie
Digital Government
Face verification: Visionics Corp.'s FaceIt
For face verification, we looked at technology from Visionics Corp. However, Visionics doesn't market a product directly, but licenses the technology to various OEM integrators and partners such as BioNetrix Systems Corp. and Keyware Technologies Inc. For our tests, we looked at the Visionics technology used in the BioNetrix Authentication Suite.
People
Information access for all
Innovative federal program managers have moved more than 100 million pages of information onto the Internet during the past five years. Despite these valiant efforts, information is still unnecessarily hard to find and use.
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