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'Freewheeling' states jumping into e-gov
Under pressure to provide better government services, states and municipalities are jumping into e-government faster than their better- financed big brother, the federal government, according to a survey of 37 states and 60 federal agencies.
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CivicLife getting personal
CivicLife.com, a startup that is building a World Wide Web portal to provide information and transactions for all civic institutions, has partnered with SilverStream Software Inc. to enable individual consumers to customize the site.
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Moving IRS into the future
Bert Concklin likes to visit towns that are frozen in time. Places such as Savannah, Ga., New Hope, Pa., and Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. And he likes to collect antique toys and trains of a bygone era.
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Download clampdown
Stop the music. That's the order from Justice and State department officials to employees who have been downloading music files from the Internet which not only slows down computer networks but also possibly results in copyright violations.
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Full strength at OMB
The Office of Management and Budget has all its top officials in place for the first time in more than three years, a circumstance that experts say should give it more clout during the closing months of the Clinton administration.
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Navy secures supply lines
The Naval Supply Systems Command has tapped nCipher Corp. to help secure its online transactions.
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Ind. lobbyists register online
A new feature on Access Indiana, the state's Web portal, enables lobbyists to register and report activities and gifts online.
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Take it slow
The California Internet Voting Task Force advises 'evolutionary rather than revolutionary change' when it comes to casting ballots online.
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Ex-deputy CIO fined $30K
Mark Boster developed a reputation as an intimidating manager when he was deputy chief information officer at the Justice Department. Now, as a businessman, Boster is paying a $30,000 fine for what Justice officials charge was using intimidation to try to continue influencing decisions at the department.
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Weather, traffic online in Wash.
After six months of testing and tweaking, Washington state has launched a realtime weather and traffic site.
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E-voting: Worth the work
Internet voting is a noshow this election season, but it looms large in our future. The reason is simple: poor voter turnout.
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Can the Net revive the vote?
In Arizona in the spring of 1996, encountering a voting Democrat was about as likely as finding a snowball in the desert.
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DLA boosts business registration
The Defense Logistics Agency has tweaked its online contractor database to allow military procurement officials to find information about their potential business partners.
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Conn. strengthens access for disabled
Connecticut has adopted stricter accessibility standards to ensure that disabled citizens can access the state's Web page. The state aims to have all its agencies in compliance by Jan. 1, 2002.
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Survey reconfirms IT staffing woes
Preliminary results from a special study of information technology salaries in the federal government show that agencies are having almost as much trouble retaining IT workers as they are recruiting them.
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FEMA unveils Web site for emergency managers
The new site is intended to make it faster and easier for officials to find information in a crisis
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Agencies find pros, cons with HR systems
A GAO report has determined that although agencies are saving money with commercial off the shelf systems, most have suffered project delays
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Partnership joins gov, customers
GovConnect Inc. has partnered with Interactive Intelligence Inc. to offer an integrated customer service platform to handle all types of communication ? from phone calls and faxes to e-mail and Web chats.
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