Digital Government
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.
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Congressional neglect of feds must end
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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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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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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Revolution or evolution?
I recently ran across an article in The Financial Times with the headline 'Revolution? What Revolution?'
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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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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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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.
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Small Town Goes High Tech
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Mitretek's Helping Hand
In addition to helping Maryland devise a statewide public safety strategy, Mitretek Systems, through the Center for Criminal Justice Technology, also is involved in other local, state and federal technology projects.
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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.
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Online Legal Research Firm Expands Coverage to 45 States
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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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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Maryland Cuts Red Tape from Justice Spending
Maryland's state and local crime fighters recently found themselves in an enviable predicament. They had the money to invest in technology, but they just weren't sure how to spend it well.
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NASA headquarters selects SAIC to provide desktop services
NASA has awarded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Information Services, Vienna, Va., a threeyear $20.1 million contract to provide information technology services to NASA headquarters under the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN).
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San Carlos, Calif., Puts Narrated Presentations on the Web
San Carlos, Calif., last week announced that it had teamed with Presenter.com to put two narrated presentations ? one for small business and the other for the general public ? on the city's World Wide Web site.
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11 vendors win call center contracts
The General Services Administration has signed agreements with 11 vendors to offer call center management services to federal agencies.
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Iowa City Steps Up Web Strategy
After several years of taking part in a regional World Wide Web initiative, Iowa City, Iowa, this week will debut its own Web site.
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Coming to a PC Near You: Florida Town Meetings
Florida held its first 'Cyber Town Meeting' last month, using the World Wide Web to broadcast presentations by Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials about the impact of information technology on the state.
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