Digital Government

State examines online news service

The State Department is looking into 'cyberstations' that would carry news drawn from local, state, national and international sources

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Experts: E-gov examples shine abroad

If the new president needs some ideas about egovernment, he ought to look at Bulgaria, a group of government experts advises

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Students' site scores State award

The State Department gave its firstever Digital Diplomacy Award to three students who created a Web site to draw attention to world hunger

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Computer-based exercise joins U.S., Norway

Sailors aboard a Navy ship conducted a computerbased training exercise last week with Norwegian counterparts thousands of miles away

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Navy assessing intranet outside U.S.

The Navy is conducting a business case analysis to expand NMCI to its installations outside the continental United States

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Responding internationally

International cybercrime attacks on missioncritical government or private computers from across national boundaries is an increasing threat. Can governments respond?

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Building a global web

Pentagon officials hope the Smart Sensor Web, like the World Wide Web, will serve the international community because so many conflicts and peacekeeping efforts have a distinct international flavor.

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Data on demand

The Pentagon is collaborating with five countries on the Smart Sensor Web project, a sweeping effort to weave together the most extensive sensor program across the Defense Department into one World Wide Weblike battlefield system.

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Net diplomacy

It has become a cliche, but it's true: With the explosive growth of the Internet in the past decade, no one does business the same way anymore.

Digital Government

The limits of Net diplomacy

The Internet may be able to deliver previously banned or unedited information into the heart of repressive regimes, but the effects that information may have are limited.

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DOD tackling global logistics

The armed services are attempting to streamline logistics systems to speed accurate data to warfighters, enhancing their ability to make battlefield decisions

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Internet diplomacy on the rise

The challenge for the State Department is to use the Internet to further its diplomatic mission, according to Ira Magaziner, a former White House adviser

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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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Europe faces PKI Challenge

Mirroring the Federal PKI Steering Committee's goal of interoperability, European officials will work to unite various publickey infrastructure technologies

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O Canada's e-prowess

While U.S. federal online efforts remain in the formative stage, about half the transactions between Canadians and their government now can be performed online.

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Exposing 'human trade'

The State Department is going online to help fight the international trafficking of human beings.

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New nets heat up Antarctica

Antarctica is a desert on ice. Although the continent holds more than 90 percent of the world's ice, it only averages a few inches of precipitation annually and is one of the least friendly places on Earth for human habitation.

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Site to monitor global slave trade

The State Department is sponsoring a Web site to draw attention to the international crisis of trafficking in human beings

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Treaty portal to get power search

Those seeking treaty information on the State Department's portal will soon find a new search function that will include treaties, compliance, inspection and other data

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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside

Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.