Digital Government
$50 million unspent for school tech
Maine has created a task force to deliberate the fate of a multimillion-dollar technology endowment fund for the state's schools
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Indiana creating true 'superhighway'
The state is selling rights of way along a major stretch of highway for companies to install high-speed telecommunications lines
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What ailed health agency's upgrade?
A California health agency invested $12 million on a software system intended to better capture patient information, but it didn't work out that way
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Judge stops Virginia Net content law
Similar legislation has been struck down as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment right to free speech in Michigan, New York and New Mexico
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Chicago piloting smart transit
Commuters are trying out SmartCard, a 'touch-and-go' payment system for rail and bus travel
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Opening GIS borders
The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a contract to Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ESRI) last month to develop and deploy a geographic information system that consolidates the agency's GIS data and makes it available via the Internet to state and local governments to aid in their community development work.
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Security complex
For state and local governments, the technical work associated with moving services online may seem elementary compared with the beleaguering task of gaining the public trust that is critical for digital government to take hold.
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Virtual school planning: Tips for policy-makers
Funding: Consider funding implications early on, including the cost/benefit to local districts for participating and the most sustainable funding mechanisms in your state.
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How FBCA works
State and local governments are only beginning public-key infrastructure plans, but they already have a looming problem.
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States seeking bridges so PKI can span systems
State and local governments are only beginning public-key infrastructure plans, but they already have a looming problem.
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Cyberschool
There were no chalk-covered blackboards, no raised hands, no carefully aligned rows of desks and no longing glances out the window during Catherine Roberts' recent creative writing class
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Tightening the belt
A closer look at Kansas' Department of Administration's security policy
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Making health care 'smarter'
The Western Governors' Association's Health Passport is designed
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Chicago targets minority-owned businesses with Web site
Merging the aims of public policy with the mechanisms of information technology, Chicago's Department of Purchases, Contracts and Supplies has embraced the Internet for the city's Minority- and Woman-owned Business Procurement Program.
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Devising new lures
As the shortage of information technology workers continues to grow, governments are straying further and further from traditional employment policies.
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States find cards a smart solution for health care
The Western Governors' Association has gotten 'smart.'
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Look outward to fix the IT worker crisis
Government agency managers concerned about the dearth of high-tech workers have long days and sleepless nights ahead of them: The problem, in all likelihood, will get worse long before it gets better.
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Ark. IT workers get more than 'office with a window'
Competition for a capable and competent work force is tough in Little Rock, Ark., especially for the government.
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