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A 'real-life' perspective on e-government
There's nothing like a couple weeks away to get some much-needed perspective on e-government.
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Family-unfriendly
I'm really ticked off by the findings of a new Office of Personnel Management study that says federal managers are not carrying out the familyfriendly policies of the Clinton administration.
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Election season heats up e-mail debates
If the flap about missing White House e-mail messages was ever about technology, that's no longer the case.
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County marries Webcasts to weddings
Couples exchanging wedding vows for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, now can do them nearer and farther
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Racing the Olympic clock
With the 2000 Summer Olympic Games having just crossed the finish line, officials have passed the baton to the organizing team for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
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Site speeds answers to farmers
The Farm Service Agency plans to announce today that it has added an intelligent search feature to its nationwide intranet portal, enabling employees to more quickly answer questions submitted by farmers.
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N/MCI contract remains adrift
The Navy officials said failure to finalize the $16 billion intranet contract today was of little consequence
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Europe raising bar on security, privacy
The European Union's eEurope initiative seeks to ensure public trust in the information economy and electronic government
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NIC, AOL building e-gov guide
NIC and America Online are building a national e-government guide for state government services and applications
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NSF hires info security specialist
The National Science Foundation is the latest agency to hire an information security specialist to assist the chief information officer
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Pentagon bolsters net mandate
The Pentagon has established a new policy that makes the Global Information Grid Waiver Board the sole authority for approving area networks not using the Defense Department's mandated network.
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Outsourcing: Read between the lines
The ongoing Defense Department effort to determine the feasibility of outsourcing its $400 million printing organization appears, on the surface, to be nothing more than a divestiture of 'old information technology' whose time and value have been superceded by the Internet, email and other stateoftheart information dissemination technologies.
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Poll reveals Americans' e-government agenda
In overwhelming numbers, Americans are pleased to be able to obtain much government information and some government services via the Internet, a nationwide survey shows
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Navy open for e-business
With little fanfare but high expectations, the Navy will officially open the doors to its new eBusiness Operations Office this month.
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Military mines for golden technology
The Defense Department will cash in two 'golden nuggets' that emerged from the intense competition at the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) July 10 to 28
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SSA gives customers some TLC
When a senior citizen's monthly Social Security check doesn't arrive on time, there's a posse of troubleshooters ready to go find it.
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Key components of UDDI
Extensible Markup Language (XML), which tags information so that other systems know how to interpret it.
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