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Internet for Everyone: Georgia City Finds a Way
When LaGrange, Ga.'s Information Technology Committee considered wiring every household, school and business in the community with a high-speed Internet connection, they worried about creating an unsocial community dependent on the Internet for communication.
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Gore: Been there, done that
While Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush prepares a blueprint for a smaller, more effective, technology- assisted government, Democratic hopeful Al Gore claims that such a government is already under construction, thanks to his National Partnership for Reinventing Government initiative.
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Breaking the Language Barrier
Florida Leads an Effort to Welcome Latin American Business With its Bilingual Web Site
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Army deploying Gigabit Ethernet
Network will provide Fort Carson users with a sixfold increase in bandwidth compared with the Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks
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Debugging Telework
'If I can't see them, how do I know they're working?' is a common reaction to the idea of telecommuting among agency managers (indeed, among managers everywhere).
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Training managers online
A new contract for Webbased training represents several firsts for NASA employees: It's the first time a single contract delivers online training agencywide, and it's NASA's first online offering that includes career development as well as technical skills.
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NetClerk Offers Contractors Do-it-Yourself Permits
Every time someone sells a water heater, another person has to get a city permit to install it. A typical store might move 1,000 of those water heaters a month. That's 1,000 permits; 1,000 forms to be filled out; 1,000 potential headaches.
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Bush to fight back with e-gov plan
George W. Bush is preparing for the role of federal technologist in chief. Bush's campaign staff says the Republican presidential candidate is not ready to discuss details. His plans for egovernment and government reform are still being fashioned by aides, including Stephen Goldsmith, a top domestic policy adviser and former mayor of Indianapolis.
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NIMA charts new course
The Defense Department's National Imagery and Mapping Agency plans to pump at least $850 million into private industry under a massive outsourcing initiative, according to the agency's top officer.
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Public services get a hand
Agencies are increasingly turning to the private sector for solutions and partnerships that will help the government become more customeroriented, officials said at the Information Processing Interagency Conference in Orlando, Fla., last week.
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Site serves minorities' health
The National Institutes of Health has launched a World Wide Web site dedicated to providing information on the health of minorities
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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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