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DOT contract pushes paperless
The Transportation Department is taking another step toward a paperless working environment with the planned award of two contracts for document imaging systems by the Federal Aviation Administration
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EPA: Clean toxic data from Web site
To keep sensitive information out of the hands of terrorists, the EPA wants to bar the posting of information regarding toxic waste sites and dangerous chemicals
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Users, Webmasters beware
FCW's DotGov Thursday column outlines some of the legal ground federal Web sites must cover
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Denver unveils immunization system
Program keeps records of immunizations given at clinics, schools and community health centers
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DOD Web-watchers find war plans online
A new reserve unit that monitors the Defense Department's presence on the World Wide Web has found an astonishing amount of classified or sensitive material on public sites
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Washington state distributes news by e-mail
Residents can get updates on everything from public policy to new job listings to ecology regulations
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NARA guidance under scrutiny
Guidance that the National Archives gave the White House on preserving presidential records is the latest item under scrutiny in the investigation of the White House email system
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DOD pushing forward on Internet disconnect
The Pentagon plans to continue developing the capability to pull the plug on all of its Internet connections for security reasons when necessary
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Online census filing declared success
Census director hails the 70,000 people who found the way to file online
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Housing Sites
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has also made e-commerce work for the agency.
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Bulgaria for the People
Proponents of digital government envision the Web providing a way for the public to directly interact with government employees. Visions of taxpayers submitting last-minute tax questions to an IRS agent are not too farfetched, online experts say.
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Access takes center stage
Section 508, an amendment to the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, requires federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities.
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10 that click
These sites offer unique services that show what digital government can provide.
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New wave of Web sites
The World Wide Web has had a dramatic impact on government's ability to communicate with the general public. Just watch what happens as federal agencies really begin to work at it.
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Education's early groundwork
Three years before the Access Board drew up its accessibility standards, the Education Department had created similar ones through the Assistive Technology Program, which provides services and technology to the department's disabled employees.
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Don't pounce on failures
When NASA's budget came under pressure in the 1990s as part of efforts to balance the federal budget, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin did what few in Washington do: He accepted cuts without protest, wishing to challenge his organization to take a risk and show it could produce better results at less cost. Thus was born the 'faster, better, cheaper' regime.
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Healthfinder
Probably the industry that government has the most voluminous amounts of data on is health care.
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OMB: No call for IT czar
As the notion of naming an information technology czar gains ground, resistance may be rising among the wouldbe sovereign's closest subjects.
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