Digital Government

The Mass. appeal of digital certificates

In the eyes of many public information technology officials, electronic commerce still falls into the category of 'any day now' technology.

Digital Government

Autodesk Provides Raster, Vector Mapping for the Web

State and local government agencies looking to use the Internet for sharing maps and maprelated data might take a look at Autodesk Inc.'s MapGuide Release 3.0, which hits the market this month. Release 3.0 includes a suite of tools that allow users to build and deploy a raster or vector mapdriven

Digital Government

Guarding the Data Gates With Biometrics

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the state, wrote Cardinal de Richelieu in 1641.

Digital Government

Technology Is Tough Sell for State Budget Surpluses

Colorado's Andre Pettigrew calls 1997 a year of lost opportunities for state information technology investments. As executive director of the state's Personnel and General Support Services Department, Pettigrew watched in dismay as the state government returned $139 million in excess state funds to

Modernization

The FCC: No Friend of Local Government

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised a new era of advanced communications services universally available at affordable prices all provided by carriers operating in a competitive environment.

Digital Government

Oregon County Clicks With Objects-Based GIS

Since their inception, geographic information systems have often sat on the periphery of traditional systems development.

Digital Government

We look at three GIS packages designed with state and local users in mind

Most of the time you get what you pay for. And if somebody offers you something for free you have to figure that's probably just about what it's worth.

Digital Government

Is Your Intranet a Trojan Horse?

Intranets promise to bring elite applications to users more easily than traditional network systems.

Digital Government

Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract

Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract

Digital Government

Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch

Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch

Digital Government

Bell Atlantic and Cabletron Sign Internet Pact With N.H. Schools

The New Hampshire governor's office and Education Department recently announced a $5 million pact with Bell Atlantic and Cabletron

Digital Government

Pentium Upgrades: When Do They Make Sense?

Your agency probably has many older Pentium PCs bought two or three years ago when they were the fastest systems around. Now however these PCs are finding it difficult to handle today's complex Webbased and multimedia applications.

Digital Government

Technology, Reviews and Business

During investigations police officers are likely to share information only sporadically with other jurisdictions.

Digital Government

Intergovernmental Service Protocols

Despite its harm to individual computer systems the Year 2000 date change crisis could reveal some even uglier side effects

Digital Government

Minnesota Data Warehouse Furnishes Data on Demand

Imagine being in an industry in which you are a provider of services to 900 000 separate accounts.

Digital Government

When to Go Wireless

It's fast it's convenient and it'll cost you.

Digital Government

Missouri Fast-Tracks Rural Networks

There has been much discussion in the past two years over who can and cannot afford access to the wonders of the World Wide Web but officials in Missouri are focusing on 'havenots' of a different breed:

Digital Government

Building Year 2000 Interfaces

You've educated your managers, drawn up your methodology.

Digital Government

Federal Program Designed to 'Nudge' GIS Development

Perhaps nowhere in the United States is there more of a need for consistent land mapping than in Alaska which is twice the size of Texas and is inhabited by an average of one person per square mile.

Digital Government

California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award

California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award